Australia's aero-medical retrieval services lead the world in best practice and a new agreement to be signed between Charles Sturt University and CareFlight will enhance research into this critical health care service.

The International Nature Tourism Project is an arm of the Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism.

Charles Sturt University will be welcomed as a participant in the leading Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Tourism, at an official opening and workshop on the Bathurst Campus next week.

Charles Sturt University has been granted $3.7 million in prestigious Australian Research Council funding, including more than $2.6 million to establish a national Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.

Charles Sturt University won gold for the extensive water conservation systems and ecological management on the University's Thurgoona Campus.

Australia's Rugby Union team the Wallabies has applauded Charles Sturt University's latest geoglyph exercise as "the best support we've received from home - certainly the most unusual".

The success of Charles Sturt University in increasing its overseas student market has been recognised with a Highly Commended award in the 1999 Premier's NSW Exporter of the Year Awards.

Conservation of native bushland still standing on farmlands in the southern Riverina of NSW and Northeast Victoria would benefit the Australian community by up to $70 million over five years, according to a study by Charles Sturt University researchers.

An information technology conference will be run in conjunction with a United Nations workshop being held at Charles Sturt University on 19-22 October.