A senior CSU academic has been appointed to a national board to advise the federal government on climate change policy in Australia.

The new Carbon Tax is a good first step in addressing Australia's high carbon emissions, "but we really need to introduce the Emissions Trading Scheme in 2015 for the carbon price to be an effective pollution deterrent," said senior CSU economist, Professor Kevin Parton.

A CSU theatre/media graduate has won a prestigious Walkley Young Journalist of the Year Award for her online reporting of the recovery of the Grantham community in south-east Queensland following the devastating floods that swept through the town in January 2011.

A CSU professor has cautioned that accepting without question what he has described as "some pervasive beliefs about rural Australia related to farming and land management" could lead to poor planning of Australia’s agricultural future.

A first-year paramedic student at CSU has put her books aside temporarily as her training intensifies for the K4 500 metre kayaking event at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

CSU conferred an honorary doctorate on Reverend Dr Cho Seong Gi, the head of the Presbyterian Church of Korea, when he visited Adelaide on Monday 16 July.

A collaborative program operated by the CSU School of Human Movement Studies and the Western Region Academy of Sport in Bathurst for strength and conditioning interns has again received a prestigious award from the United States.

A new book by a CSU academic argues that Europe's first farmers were ruled by an elite aristocracy who passed themselves off as 'gods', and may have commanded secret knowledge that included ambrosia which extended their life spans.

Construction of a permanent campus of Charles Sturt University in Dubbo in western NSW, will become a reality in the New Year with the announcement this week of a $3 million capital development grant from the Federal Government.