Dr Colleen McDonogh had a long and distinguished involvement with Charles Sturt University and its predecessor institutions in Bathurst.

The push to recruit more police officers to the NSW Police Service gives opportunities for a diverse range of people interested in a policing career, according to Charles Sturt University's Associate Professor Tracey Green.

Australia's refugee policy and current issues and research on asylum seekers will be examined by academics and human rights organisations at a national conference in Sydney on Friday 20 October.

Charles Sturt University has been praised for its role in the Modern Pentathlon at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

It has taken Elaine Dunn half a century to get the much-desired letters she wants after her name, and now at 71 she's sizing up the prospect of continuing on to a Masters degree as well.

Graduation at Charles Sturt University's Bathurst Campus this year will be a history making event with the completion of the new gymnasium and auditorium building, the first permanent home in the history of the Campus for such ceremonies.

Malaysia's Deputy Minister of Education will be a special guest at the graduation of more than 250 students from Charles Sturt University, Australia's largest distance education provider, in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday 12 March.

Plans to extend health courses at Charles Sturt University will see the addition of new courses in nutrition and dietetics this year and the introduction of a new course in podiatry being planned for the Health Faculty.

Weather conditions in Sunday's Olympic men's marathon will have as much to do with who crosses the finish line first, as the level and intensity of the competitors' training programs, according results of a recent study.