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Marketing in small business
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003A new seminar series from Charles Sturt University (CSU) and Wagga Wagga City Council to assist local small businesses kicks off in the city this week, with a session on marketing. Dr Lan Snell and Dr Heather Crawford from the University’s School of Management and Marketing will present the first seminar from 5.30pm to 7.30pm on Wednesday 14 March in the Civic Centre, Baylis Street in Wagga Wagga. The session will explore marketing issues facing small businesses, including digital marketing, an introduction to online consumer behaviour, search engine marketing, and the application of various social media tools for marketing. Further seminars in the series on finance and human resources will be held in April and June. Read more on CSU News here.
Science hits the road
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Dubbo and Orange will come alive with science when the Science@CSU comes to town next week. The Faculty of Science at CSU is among the largest and most diverse science faculties in Australasia, with approximately 9 000 students and hundreds of staff in seven schools across six campuses. The Faculty teaches and conducts research in a variety of science and health disciplines including veterinary science, dentistry, nursing, environmental studies, forensic biotechnology, wine science, agriculture, and allied health. Dean of the Faculty of Science, Professor Nick Klomp, will present a summary of some of the exciting initiatives currently planned or being implemented in the various science disciplines at CSU, including new courses, current and future collaborations in research, and professional training made possible because of new international staff appointments and multi-million dollar investments in research and training facilities across CSU campuses. Science@CSU will visit the Dubbo Campus from 4pm to 5pm on Monday 19 March and the Orange Campus on Tuesday 20 March. Read more about Science@CSU here.
Presentation ceremony for CSU business students in Bathurst
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003The Dean of the Faculty of Business, Professor Lesley White, will host a ceremony to present 11 prizes to outstanding students in the Faculty of Business at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst on Wednesday 14 March. “The prizes cover a range of disciplines including accounting, taxation, management, marketing, information technology and computer science, and I am delighted that they are made available to outstanding students by organisations which understand the importance of supporting our future business leaders,” Professor White said. Sponsors include the Central West Law Society, Pearson Australia, St George Bank Ltd, the Association of Taxation and Management Accountants, CPA Australia Ltd, Devro Pty Ltd, LexisNexis Australia, and the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Twenty three Dean’s List Awards will also be presented to acknowledge outstanding academic performance by students in the Faculty.
Canadian teaching student gets Aussie education
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003
It’s not just the lessons taught in the classroom that Charles Sturt University (CSU) student Mr Dave McGowen will remember from his recent exchange to Australia but those handed out on the football field. Mr McGowan was one of five students from CSU in Ontario who travelled to Australia to complete their final practicum for CSU’s Bachelor of Primary Education Studies. Mr McGowan spent three weeks at the Buninyong Public School in the regional NSW city of Dubbo. He said the experience has given him more examples of how to deal with different classroom situations. “The curriculum seemed pretty similar although I found the students were given more time to do the work and practise or think about things.” Mr McGowan also immersed himself in the local culture, playing a game of Australian Rules football. “The game was a lot of fun and much tougher than I had anticipated, as it was a full contact match against a good opponent,” he said. “Nonetheless I lived through it and have the battle scars to show for it. It was a truly authentic Aussie experience.”
Novelist Jennifer Mills in Wagga Wagga
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003
The Booranga Writers’ Centre at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Wagga Wagga will welcome its first writer-in-residence for 2012, with the arrival of Ms Jennifer Mills. The South Australian-based author has written the novels The Diamond Anchor (2009) and Gone (2011), both published by University of Queensland Press, and the poetry collection Treading Earth (2008). A collection of short stories, The Rest Is Weight, will be released this year. Ms Mills won the 2008 Marian Eldridge Award for Young Emerging Women Writers, the Pacific Region of the Commonwealth Short Story Competition in 2008-9, and the 2008 Northern Territory Literary Awards: Best Short Story. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, Hecate, Overland, Heat, the Griffith Review, Best Australian Stories, and New Australian Stories, and she is a regular contributor to New Matilda and Overland. During her residency until Friday 30 March, Ms Mills will be special guest at a writers’ workshop from 2pm on Saturday 24 March at the Booranga Writers’ Centre, building 410, McKeown Drive, CSU in Wagga Wagga and at a public reading at the Riverina Regional Library in Baylis Street in Wagga Wagga from 5pm on Wednesday 28 March.
Celebrating Wongamar in Canberra lecture
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003Ms Maria Williams, the daughter of the late Wiradjuri Elder, Wongamar, also known as Pastor Cec Grant, will honour her father’s legacy at a public lecture in Canberra on Friday 23 March. The 2012 Pastor Cec Grant Memorial Lecture focuses on the interactions between Australian Indigenous cultures and Christianity, and the history of Indigenous Christian movements. In 2008, Charles Sturt University (CSU) established the annual Pastor Cec Grant Memorial Lecture to recognise and celebrate the work of Pastor Grant, OAM. Ms Williams will present her lecture from 7pm at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture (ACC&C) in Canberra. The annual Pastor Cec Grant Memorial Lecture is supported by CSU, the Wiradjuri Council of Elders, and the Wiradjuri Christian Development Ministries.
Science on the road to Albury
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003
Science at Charles Sturt University (CSU) and its innovations in teaching and research will be on show to the Border community on Thursday 22 March in a presentation by and the Dean of CSU’s Faculty of Science, Professor Nick Klomp, who is also a renowned science broadcaster. “The Faculty of Science is one of the largest and most diverse science faculties in Australasia, with around 9 000 students and hundreds of staff in seven schools across six campuses. We teach and conduct research in a variety of science and health disciplines from veterinary science to dentistry, nursing to environmental studies, forensic biotechnology to wine science, agriculture to allied health. I will also speak about CSU’s bid for a medical school,” Professor Klomp said. Teachers, students, industry representatives, and the general public will receive information about courses leading to science careers, current and future research collaborations, and professional training in the University’s multi-million dollar research and training facilities and clinics, some of which are located in Albury-Wodonga.
Academic excellence on show in Albury
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003The academic successes of current environmental and health students from Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Faculty of Science will be celebrated on Thursday 22 March at CSU in Albury-Wodonga. The Dean of Science, Professor Nick Klomp, will present awards and prizes for academic excellence, including the prestigious DA Johnstone Perpetual Award for the top environmental sciences student. “Stopping to recognise and celebrate academic excellence is an important part of the University’s commitment in the pursuit of excellence,” said Professor Klomp. Current and graduating undergraduate and postgraduate students will receive prizes from local and international companies and organisations as well as Dean’s awards from 2pm in the Gum’s Café at Thurgoona.
CSU in Orange celebrates Harmony Day
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Orange will celebrate its cultural diversity on Wednesday 21 March which is national Harmony Day. “The past 10 years has seen an encouraging change in dynamics and cultures on the campus,” said Head of Campus, Dr Heather Robinson. “I think this comes with the increased diversity in courses offered on the campus. The undergraduate student body is a wonderful mixture of young people of all cultural backgrounds and we continue to host postgraduate students from Asia, Africa and Europe. It makes for a rich and diverse campus experience.” With the theme for Harmony Day 2012 Sport - play, engage, inspire, CSU will host a game of frisbee and a barbecue from midday at the CSU sports oval, with all staff, students and visitors welcome to attend.
A 'Google-ized' world examined in Canberra lecture
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003
Charles Sturt University (CSU) has been named as the first Australian host of an international lecture at the National Library in Canberra to promote the importance of information in the high technology age. Professor of Information Studies at CSU, Lisa Given, said, “This is the first time that the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) has awarded this lecture series to an institution outside North America.” Canadian academic, Emeritus Professor Gloria Leckie, from the University of Western Ontario, will deliver the ASIS&T lecture from 5pm on Wednesday 21 March. Her free public lecture at the National Library of Australia, From Facebook to Twitter and Into the Cloud: Where is Library and Information Science in our Googleized World?, will explore the meaning of libraries and information centres in today’s technological world. Read more on CSU News here.