Four students at CDU's Katherine Campus were recognised for their academic achievements at a scholarships ceremony on 27 October.

Eco-minded students are being offered the chance to become environmental ambassadors and attend a youth forum in Bangkok, Thailand next year.

The health crisis among Aboriginal children with hearing problems is being tackled through a new vaccination program run by the Menzies School of Health Research.

This year's 2006 Melbourne Cup Lunch at Karawa Restaurant will be bigger, brighter and better than ever!

Last weekend's Casuarina Campus concert to raise funds for an Indonesian Garden turned out to be an artistic and financial success for CDU's music school.

A visit by 21 Woolaning Homeland Christian College secondary students to CDU's Casuarina Campus is hoped will inspire interests in new directions.

CDU student Regis Martin has recently won one of three top prizes in the 16th Annual Centre Awards International Photographic Juried Exhibition in California, US.

There's no such thing as a free lunch, you might think. Well, there is for CDU staff and the business community over the next few weeks at Karawa, the Palmerston Campus training restaurant.

Darwin Symphony Orchestra artistic director Martin Jarvis believes Verdi's famous Requiem should be considered more like an opera than music for a funeral mass.

CDU lecturers and researchers will play a major role in the Desert Knowledge symposium in Alice Springs next month.

Nominations are now open for the NT Achiever Award 2007. Find out more...

CDU's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Helen Garnett, is delighted to announce four new appointments.

CDU's continual commitment to developing strategies for Indigenous participation has again been evidenced through a newly implemented Indigenous work experience initiative.

'I wanted to study my course in a relaxed, friendly, personal and practical atmosphere; and I got this at CDU', says Helena Ryan, Bachelor of Nursing/Bachelor of Behavioural Science student.

Applications are now open for the National ISS Institute Overseas Fellowship. Find out more...

A simulated business environment, mirroring the real business world of industry partner TOLL Group, will be launched by David Toller, Member for Solomon, at CDU this week (Wednesday 25 October).

Trainee teachers will spend more time in the classroom under CDU's new education degree.

Exhibition showing 19 October - 3 November 2006.

A strong crowd turned out to celebrate the launch of the Palmerston Magpies Football Club's new home ground at CDU's Palmerston Campus on Sunday.

CDU's Vice-Chancellor Professor Helen Garnett will discuss the future of tertiary education in the Top End in the final lecture of the Local Experts: Global issues lecture series tomorrow night (Tuesday 24 October).

CDU's Casuarina Campus is set to play host to the Royal Australian Chemical Institute's Chemistry Prize Night for 2006.

Principals, assistant-principals and senior teachers finalised preparations for their roles in the new Bachelor of Teaching and Learning degree in a seminar at CDU last week (October 20).

Carole Kayrooz, Dean of EHS, will officially launch CDU SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise) on Thursday 26 October at Casuarina Campus. Interested students are welcome to attend the launch followed by a free BBQ lunch.

Jabiru staff have been busy avoiding crocodiles over the last few weeks as they travel around the region on teaching rounds.

Congratulations to Tennant Creek-based CDU student Shannon Johnson, who won the 2006 Indigenous Male Apprentice of the Year at the recent NAIDOC awards in Alice Springs.

CDU lecturers and researchers will play a major role in the Desert Knowledge symposium in Alice Springs next month.

Vince Champion is a classic example that it is never to late to improve your jobs prospects.

CDU and its students have won awards of excellence at this year's NAIDOC closing ceremony, held at the Alice Springs Convention Centre last week.

CDU has delivered short course workshops on workplace issues for the first time in Alice Springs.

CDU Alice Springs Campus hosted the 2006 Total Look Fashion Parade at the Desert Lantern Restaurant recently.

CDU VET student Amina Sherif has won the 2006 School Based Apprentice of the Year Award.

A field visit in late September to Nusa Tenggara Timur province of eastern Indonesia formed the latest stage in CDU's land management project as part of the AusAID Public Sector Linkages program.

The Indigenous Academic Support Unit and the School of Engineering and Logistics have combined their efforts to give four year 12 students from Sanderson High School the opportunity to commence a smooth school-to-university transition.

A strong contingent of CDU students will volunteer their services at the Alice Springs Masters Games this week.

CDU Alice Springs played host to 'The Girls Night In', a fundraising evening attended by over 90 women to raise money for female cancer research on Tuesday (17 October).

Celebrate International Chefs Day at Palmerston Campus on Friday 20 October from 12pm to 2pm.

Ross Andrews presents 'Current status of pneumococcal disease in Australia', on Monday 23 October from 12pm to 1pm.

International Chef's Day was combined with a mini-trade fair and Open Day at the Karawa Restaurant on the Palmerston Campus of CDU on Friday (20 October).

A jaunty little water colour of a broken-down caravan gave curator Anita Angel the inspiration for her exhibition 'Our Home'.

Milena Mathie will provide an introductory workshop in the art of making silk paper on Thursday 19 October, from 1pm to 4.30pm.

Applications are now open for young Territorians who are interested in being part of the 2007 Youth Minister's Round Table of Young Territorians. Find out more...

Check out the great internship and cadetship opportunities currently available to young Australians...

Visual Art and Contemporary Craft students will exhibit their work in 'Smudge', opening on Friday 10 November and showing daily until 18 November.

The School of Creative Arts and Humanities will showcase the work of 16 graduate students in 'Eclosion', opening Friday 10 November and showing daily until 18 November.

The poor health of Aboriginal children was easy to talk about, but difficult to turn around, Dr Jonathan Carapetis told his audience at CDU's third public lecture on Tuesday evening (17 October).

The relationship between the Philippines and Australia is not well understood, says Tony Hely, the Australian ambassador to the Philippines.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan invites you to come and experience the real Japan through the 2007 Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program. Find out more...

Alan Roe will present 'Natural resources management and the cultivation of Papaver somniferum (opium poppy): dimensions of chronic conflict in Afghanistan', on Friday 20 October from 1pm.

Ambitious plans to create an Indonesian garden as an entertainment area on the Casuarina campus will take another step this month with a special fund-raising concert.

CDU's School of Creative Arts and Humanities recently delivered its first remote fashion program to a group of ten women at Merripen Arts Centre at Daly River.

Mark Lock presents 'Knowledges transformation in contexts of national Aboriginal health policy processes', on Monday 16 October from 12pm to 1pm.

Diversity was the key to creating a wise society and making the world a better place, said Strategic Relations consultant Mike Lynskey in giving the Occasional Address at CDU's final graduation ceremony on Friday.

A recent visit to Canada by CDU staff has finalised the establishment of a formal relationship between Charles Darwin University and the First Nations University of Canada.

Tony Hely will present a seminar on Australian-Philippines relations on Tuesday 17 October from 4pm to 5.30pm.

Australia's Ambassador to the Philippines, Mr Tony Hely, will present a seminar on relations between the two countries on Tuesday (October 17).

The CDU Law Student's Society invites you to the next Sundowner on Friday 20 October from 5.30pm onwards.

Traditional stories and pictures are being used to help explain mental health problems in a new booklet for remote communities prepared by the Menzies School of Health Research.

The tragic, shameful and untimely deaths of thousands of Aboriginal adults is even more reason to focus on the health of their children, according to Professor Jonathan Carapetis, Director of the Menzies School of Health Research.

The School of Creative Arts and Humanities presents 'Music for an Indonesian Garden', on Saturday 28 October - a special fundraising concert to assist with the building of an Indonesia Garden at CDU.

There will be a full house at the Darwin Entertainment Centre tomorrow night (October 13) as 220 students graduate from CDU.

The Chief Minister's Study Award for Women encourages women to undertake education and training to enhance their employment and general life outcomes. Find out more...

Twelve Indigenous rangers who trained in resource management at CDU are among the winners of this year's Landcare awards.

Professor Ross Bailie presents 'An approach to achieving and sustaining improvements in primary health care services in remote Indigenous communities', on 11 October from 1pm to 2pm.

The first group of Indonesian nurses to complete a bridging program at CDU that allows them to work in Australia will receive their certificates tonight (0ctober 10).

The tragic, shameful and untimely deaths of thousands of Aboriginal adults is even more reason to focus on the health of their children, according to Professor Jonathan Carapetis, Director of the Menzies School of Health Research.

CDU in partnership with Group Training NT, Territory Construction Association and the Department of Employment, Education and Training will host 'Try'a Trade' later this month.

Jason McIntosh has joined CDU's Corporate Communications team as the regional PR/communications officer, based in Alice Springs.

CDU was well represented at the National Indigenous Legal Conference held in Sydney recently.

David Pitts cannot speak highly enough of his time at CDU and encourages others to experience the CDU lifestyle.

ArtStories, an exciting initiative in CDU's Learning Research Group, was officially launched on 13 September at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.

CDU Alice Springs staff and students will march as part of NAIDOC 2006, a week long celebration of Indigenous achievements and culture.

CDU Alice Springs student, Brooke Rainbird, has won the 2006 VET in Schools Student of the Year Award.

CDU's efforts in attracting international students has won the Chief Minister's award for a service industry.

The biggest challenge in training teachers and nurses was in developing courses that fitted the unique needs of the Northern Territory, says Carole Kayrooz, the dean of education, health and science at CDU.

CDU has commenced a research project with the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre to look at the issue of 'Accessible Desert Services'.

For someone who has spent a large part of his life trying to reform the tax system, Brian Andrew is remarkably good-humoured about his work.

The Yulara Centre report starts on a sad note with the passing of CDU student, Braedon Lusty. Braedon was injured in a rugby match last Friday night and passed away at Royal Adelaide Hospital.

More than 900 people will graduate at CDU's formal graduation ceremony for 2006.

The CDU Art Collection, in association with the School of Creative Arts and Humanities, is set to present 'Our Home: Charles Darwin University Art Collection, recent acquisitions'.

CDU master's student and international photography winner Regis Martin will discuss his PhD project 'Portraiture in the Bathroom' on Tuesday 10 October.

CDU's School of Engineering and Logistics is pleased to invite CDU staff to the launch of a new book by Professor Jai Singh.

At CDU, we care about the health and wellbeing of our staff and their families. That's just one of the many reasons why we've negotiated a special MBF Corporate Health Plan to provide greater benefits to our employees.

A number of CDU lecturers are involved in Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre research projects.

Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Section 9(1), of the Charles Darwin University Act (2003), elections will be held for the following members of Council.

Student exchange is a relatively recent phenomenon of university life. It's the kind of experience that makes older academics look rather enviously at the opportunities that were never available to them in their undergraduate days.

Student exchange is more than traveling, it's about immersing yourself in another culture and making the host country your classroom.

Professor Carole Kayrooz, Dean of the Faculty of Education, Health and Science, will outline the challenges to the delivery of quality education in teaching and nursing in the second of CDU's free public lectures on October 10.

The Communications and Media Law Association (CAMLA) is calling for entries for it 2006 Essay Prize. Find out more...

More than 100 people turned out to hear lecturer Gary Robinson address issues in Indigenous policy-making in the first of CDU's Tuesday night lecture series this month.

The regeneration of the social life of a decaying tower block in Liverpool might seem a world away from the central desert of Australia.

Filling our airwaves with program content should be the responsibility of Australians, Alice Springs documentary film-maker Dr David Curl told the Creative Citizenship symposium.

Five Australian writers best exemplify the notion of the socially committed citizen, literary lecturer and cultural commentator Dr David Headon told the Creative Citizenship symposium.

Creating the cultural landscape of the Northern Territory was reliant on its own citizens taking a major role, says Adrian Walter, the convener of the Creative Citizenship symposium.

With the explosion in self-generated websites comes the problem of who owns copyright on content published for global consumption. This was the theme of Professor Brian Fitzgerald's lecture at the recent Charles Darwin Symposium.

The papers delivered at the Creative Citizenship symposium, held from 27-28 September, were wonderfully eclectic in their approach to the topic, said convener Adrian Walter in his closing remarks.

"The tropical atmosphere and campus lifestyle of CDU provides a great study environment", says Bachelor of Education/Art student Sophie Butler.

Associate Professor Isaac Brown and the team in the Indigenous Academic Support Unit are delighted to welcome Zane Hughes to the team.