A leading CSU researcher has called for caution amid a recent newspaper report claiming efforts to mitigate carbon emissions in the Murray-Darling Basin could be ‘damaged’ by proposed cuts to irrigation in favour of returning water to the rivers.

The Vice-Chancellor and President of CSU, Professor Ian Goulter, today announced that Beyond Medical Education Limited, the leading provider of general practice training for medical graduates in rural and regional NSW and Victoria, will co-locate at CSU in Bathurst to promote improved linkages in rural medical and health education.

CSU Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Ian Goulter, welcomed the support of the Country Women's Association of NSW for the University's bid for $98 million in federal funding for a new integrated health and medical school in rural Australia.

The submission of CSU's medical school proposal has been welcomed by the co-Chair of CSU's Medical Program Development Community Consultative Committee, Mrs Audrey Hardman, OAM, amid her calls for real action on the rural doctor crisis.

CSU has awarded its biggest single construction contract for a multi-million dollar teaching and research life sciences hub in regional NSW.

World experts on operating dams, including a leading CSU aquatic scientist, have called for bold leadership from lending institutions, national governments and dam owners and operators worldwide.

Nuclear medicine scientist, Matthew Haase, is a living example of one of CSU's aims to meet the needs of the regional workforce.

The man recruited to CSU to oversee the establishment of the first veterinary science program based in regional Australia has received resounding praise for his legacy.

Australia's leading class action litigator and Chairman of Australian law firm Maurice Blackburn, Mr Bernard Murphy will be the keynote speaker at a conference on social and environmental accounting being held at CSU in Albury-Wodonga.