A leading Charles Sturt University policing lecturer and researcher has been recognised with the award of Officer of the Order of Australia in the general division of the recent Queen's birthday honours.

Speech and language researchers at CSU are seeking participants for the historic AusTalk national study of Australian speech and accents.

Ten Year 11 students from four Orange district high schools will commence a university course at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Orange from July 2011 as a part of their Higher School Certificate studies.

History will be made in Ontario, Canada on Friday 23 June at two formal graduation ceremonies for over 150 Charles Sturt University (CSU) graduates at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington.

Four years ago Dubbo resident Pauline Smith had never thought she would complete the training she began nearly 20 years earlier and become a registered nurse.

The 'Go Back' television series recently broadcast on SBS highlights the ignorance to the plight of refugees around the world, but will do little to shift the community debate on policies and issues surrounding asylum seekers and refugees, says a CSU academic.

Sir Thomas Mitchell would surely approve of the Mitchell Link, a new high speed fibre optic link which will greatly benefit the Bathurst and Orange campuses of Charles Sturt University (CSU). For the first time, the regionally-based University campuses will connect into the Australian Research and Education Network (AREN), which was established in 2002 to provide large bandwidth capabilities to the country’s universities.

A memorial fund has been established to benefit future CSU theatre/media students following the premature death of Mr Blair Milan, a young CSU alumnus, actor and TV personality.

The Prime Minister’s announcement of carbon tax exemptions for families and small businesses in purchasing petrol is nothing new, but sure to cause controversy, says CSU climate change expert, Professor Kevin Parton.