Four Japanese nursing students from Dubbo’s sister city of Minokamo, are the envy of their peers, having spent the past nine months in Australia while they upgrade their qualifications through CSU.

Weight training is most commonly associated with body builders or elite athletes, yet research by Charles Sturt University suggests that it may also be of benefit for older people.

How do billions of nerve cells organise themselves into a living brain? How does the genetic code control the growth of developing embryos into complete human beings?

The new NSW HSC Online website has achieved record results for the 2001 school year, with more than four million page downloads for the year to the end of November.

Successful applications from Charles Sturt University for the 2002 Research Infrastructure Block Grants were announced this week by CSU Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research & Graduate Training), Professor Paul Burnett.

A plant pathologist working on solutions to agricultural diseases in regional Australia has been named the individual winner of the 2001 CSU Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence.

The tough economic climate facing Australian universities has pushed Charles Sturt University to streamline a number of courses offered for 2002.

A new Federal initiative is set to encourage more nurses to work in remote and rural Australia.

Dirt, religion and politics came together last week for the turning of the first sod to begin the construction program for the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture in Canberra, ACT.