Students from across the state will visit Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst on Monday 24 August and be the first to experience life as a CSU Engineering student.Over 20 students will participate in workshops, meet CSU students and academics, and tour the campus and accommodation. They'll also get to see the progress being made on the new state-of-the-art engineering building and hear from Engineers Without Borders how they can use their engineering degree to make a difference.MyDay events are held across CSU to help future students gather the information and experiences they need to find the best course for them.Applications to study at CSU in 2016 are now open. More information is available at www.csu.edu.au/apply

An original variety show will have a three-night season at the Ponton Theatre at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst from Thursday 20 to Saturday 22 August. The 40-minute production Stick It To Me is devised and performed by second-year theatre/media students in the CSU School of Communication and Creative Industries in Bathurst. This original show with a cast of 11 and a crew of 13 explores themes of time, evolution, and the basic human need for connection. At the heart of Stick It To Me, two bantering characters will guide the audience through an evening of dynamic physical theatre, stick play, live music, comedy, dance, acrobatics, and more. CSU theatre/media lecturer and supervising director Mr Dan Aubin said, "The cast and crew worked through an experimental devising process so that all the elements of Stick It To Me collide in a strange but familiar environment to evoke the need to think, play and explore. We hope theatregoers will see things they have not seen before, consider their place in the world, but above all, enjoy a great night of entertainment and laughter." Stick It To Me will be performed at 7pm Thursday 20, Friday 21 and Saturday 22 August at the Ponton Theatre at CSU in Bathurst. Tickets are $10 for students/concession or $12 for non-students. Tickets are available at the door, or via Try Booking Online http://www.trybooking.com/IPFL or by contacting Ms Caitlin Bennett in Ticketing on 0424 631 753. More information can be found on the Stick It To Me production website.

Approximately 60 Year-6 students from West Bathurst Public School and Portland Central School will participate in a very special graduation at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst on Wednesday 19 August. The students will don mortar boards as part of a Check It Out day on campus participating in a selection of workshops to give them first-hand experience of university life. Program coordinator Mr Ben Morris said, "This fun and interactive day aims to provide students with a university experience. The students will participate in two hands-on Faculty-based activities, tour the campus, explore the library, enjoy lunch in the student dining room, and end the day with a mock graduation. This will include a special presentation by a Future Moves leader or a Charles Surt University academic." Check It Out days are part of CSU's Future Moves program which was developed to encourage aspiration for higher education among students in rural and remote NSW and Victoria. By introducing young people to the world of university study, students are encouraged through a positive experience to become more engaged in school studies and more confident in considering tertiary study as a realistic option. Future Moves is a federally-funded initiative, run through Charles Sturt University and aligned with the Australian BluePrint for Career Development.To obtain more information, talk to a Future Moves program coordinator in your area:Albury – Ms Ilena Young 0427 283 101Bathurst/Orange/Dubbo – Mr Ben Morris 0427 714 807Port Macquarie – Ms Sandra Wallace 0407 205 452Wagga Wagga – Ms Ravnita Sharma 0428 413 107

Relationships, marriages and families in early colonial New South Wales are the subject of the 2015 Theo Barker Memorial Lecture at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst on Friday 14 August. Head of Campus at CSU in Bathurst, Professor Jo-Anne Reid, said this free annual memorial public lecture will be presented by guest history lecturer Associate Professor Grace Karskens from the University of New South Wales. "This is the sixth Theo Barker Memorial Lecture to celebrate the life and work of former history lecturer and Bathurst historian Mr Theo Barker," Professor Reid said. "It is co-presented by Charles Sturt University and the Bathurst District Historical Society (BDHS) in honour of the late Mr Barker, a long-standing member of the BDHS who wrote a two-volume history of Bathurst and The Story of Three Colleges, a history of CSU's three predecessor institutions. "Professor Karskens will explore the findings of her research on relationships, marriage and families in the early settler community at Castlereagh on the Nepean River in New South Wales in her talk, 'Men, women, couples and families on Australia's first frontier, 1803 to 1830'. It explores the dynamics of relationships at a time when men outnumbered women in the fledgling colony. I invite the Bathurst community to attend this fascinating and fitting free public lecture."

A free public lecture at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst on Tuesday 18 August will explore contemporary Australian Indigenous health policy. The lecture, Indigenous health: power, politics and citizenship, by Associate Professor Dominic O'Sullivan introduces his new book of the same title. Professor O'Sullivan is Associate Head of the CSU School of Humanities and Social Sciences and senior lecturer in political science in Bathurst. Head of Campus at CSU in Bathurst, Professor Jo-Anne Reid, said this free public lecture will examine contemporary Australian Indigenous health policy as a site of contested perspectives about Indigenous citizenship and 'belonging' to the modern state. "Professor O'Sullivan's lecture will explain how the political system itself contributes to policy failure in Indigenous health," Professor Reid said. "He will consider the claims that Indigenous people can reasonably make on the public health system, and examine what these claims mean for contemporary Australian conceptions of citizenship, democracy, and human rights." The CSU Explorations Series free public lecture starts at 6pm Tuesday 18 August in room 223 in building 1292, with the nearest parking in car park P7. Follow the event parking signs and balloons. Light refreshments will be served after the lecture. To attend, please register here (for catering purposes), or for more information, contact CSU regional relations assistant Ms Olivia Wyborn on owyborn@csu.edu.au or phone (02) 6338 4645.

The local community, industry partners and media are invited to take part in the first site tour of the new engineering facilities at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst. Foundation Professor of Engineering Euan Lindsay will lead a tour around the new site, which is currently under construction and due for completion in December 2015. The tour will commence at 4pm on Wednesday 5 August and will be followed by a presentation of 3D modelling of the site and an information session about the University's new Bachelor of Technology / Master of Engineering (Civil Systems). "We're excited to offer our local community, industry and media the opportunity to visit the new site of Engineering at Charles Sturt University and to hear how we are progressing," Professor Euan said. Registration for the site tour is required. Please email Professor Lindsay elindsay@csu.edu.au

The 2015 Theo Barker Memorial Lecture at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst on Friday 14 August will explore relationships, marriages and families in early colonial New South Wales. Head of Campus at CSU in Bathurst, Professor Jo-Anne Reid, said this free annual memorial public lecture celebrates the life and work of former history lecturer Mr Theo Barker. "This is the sixth Theo Barker Memorial Lecture and it will be presented by guest history lecturer Associate Professor Grace Karskens from the University of New South Wales," Professor Reid said. "The title of Professor Karskens' talk is 'Men, women, couples and families on Australia's first frontier, 1803 to 1830'. In it she will explore the findings of her research on relationships, marriage and families in the early settler community at Castlereagh on the Nepean River in New South Wales. The lecture will examine the impact of the shortage of women on the marriage stakes in early colonial New South Wales. She will ask and answer, what happened when older men married fourteen and fifteen year old girls? What about the fact that there were so many young convict men around? How big were their families, and what became of all those children? And just how far were men and women prepared to go for love and passion? This will be a fascinating and fitting public lecture and I invite the Bathurst community to attend." This free public lecture is co-presented by CSU and the Bathurst District Historical Society (BDHS) in honour of the late Mr Theo Barker, Bathurst's historian and a long-standing member of the BDHS. Mr Barker wrote a two-volume history of Bathurst, and The Story of Three Colleges, a history of CSU's three predecessor institutions.

Representatives of two leading Australian media and advertising agencies will provide a brief to Charles Sturt University (CSU) advertising students in Bathurst on Wednesday 29 July. Mr David Maxwell, lecturer in advertising and radio in the CSU School of Communication and Creative Industries in Bathurst said Ms Debbie Ferris from media agency OMD and Ms Claire Crennan from agency Fuse* will visit the University to present to second-year Bachelor of Communication (Advertising) students studying the unit Channel Planning in Action. "The agencies will present a brief to the students, and the students are required to work in teams to prepare and present their recommendations to the agency executives in September," Mr Maxwell said. "Through this industry participation, advertising students are exposed to real channel planning problems and the development of industry-standard responses. This assists student learning and adds to the making the graduating students 'work ready'." The briefing will be held in the Ponton Theatre at CSU in Bathurst at 11.30am Wednesday 29 July.

Approximately 50 primary school students from Orange and Parkes will experience university life at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst on Wednesday 29 July. The Year 6 students from Glenroi Heights Public School in Orange and Middleton Public School in Parkes will participate in a selection of fun and interactive workshops as part of a 'Check It Out' day to give them an authentic first-hand university experience. CSU Future Moves program coordinator Mr Ben Morris said, "By introducing young people to the world of university study, students are encouraged through a positive experience to become more engaged in school studies and more confident in considering tertiary study as a realistic post-school option." Students will participate in two hands-on faculty-based activities, then explore the library, tour the campus and its facilities, and enjoy lunch in the student dining hall. They will end the day by donning mortar boards for a mock graduation which will include a special presentation by a Future Moves leader or CSU academic. The Check It Out days are part of CSU's Future Moves program, which has been developed to encourage aspiration for higher education among students in rural and remote NSW and Victoria. Future Moves is a federally-funded initiative, run through CSU and aligned with the Australian Blueprint for Career Development.