<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>CDU News </title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/_layouts/feed.aspx?xsl=1&amp;web=/newsroom/a/2009&amp;page=0a799f13-997a-41ae-89a6-0604490a44ba&amp;wp=5f005c4a-7f29-46c9-ae5f-296fb4ff7fd8</link><description>cdu news room</description><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>CDU opens student lounge</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090529-student-lounge.aspx</link><description>29/05/09 - A brand new student lounge has just opened its doors on the ground floor of building Red 2 next to the basketball courts.</description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 16:34:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Early childhood education sector faces the challenges together</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090509-Early-childhood-conference.aspx</link><description>29/05/09 - A Charles Darwin University education specialist is among the line-up of national and international speakers at the 2009 Early Childhood Education Conference which opened today in Melbourne.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:05:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CDU student receives Order of Australia Scholarship</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090509-OOAF-Scholarship.aspx</link><description>29/05/09 - Charles Darwin University Bachelor of Education student, Rebecca Evans has been awarded the Order of Australia Association Foundation (OAAF) Scholarship.</description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 15:19:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CDU, Menzies announce prestigious PhD scholarships for East Timor</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090529-CDU-Menzies-PhD-scholarships.aspx</link><description>29/05/09 - Two leading education providers in the Northern Territory are helping their nearest international neighbour to build its health capacity.</description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 16:37:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>First VC’s Indigenous cadets graduate</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/VC-Indig-cadets.aspx</link><description>23/05/09 - The first two students mentored through CDU under the Vice-Chancellor’s Indigenous Cadetship Program graduated this week.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 15:46:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deni, 14, takes out title for ‘youngest’</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090525-Deni-14.aspx</link><description>25/05/09 - Deni Ranasinghe was one of more than 1100 Vocational Education and Training (VET) students to receive their awards at Thursday night’s CDU graduation ceremony. In a sea of faces, though, the student stood out. She is only 14 years old.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 15:32:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>PhD research probes the Battle of Broome</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/Battle-of-Broome.aspx</link><description>28/05/09 - Research from a six-year study of the Japanese air attack in the Battle of Broome is providing closure to the air raid survivors by linking them to the flying boats that brought them to Australia 67 years ago.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 15:28:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mabo Day celebrations set for Palmerston campus</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/maboday.aspx</link><description>27/05/09 - Charles Darwin University staff and students will join the wider community to mark Mabo Day.
</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 10:59:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hotmail issue resolved</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090526-Problems-with-Hotmail.aspx</link><description>27/5/09 - ITMS advises that the CDU to Hotmail email blocking issue has been resolved.

</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 09:32:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Anger management plans ‘failing Aboriginal men’</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/angermanagereasearch.aspx</link><description>26/05/09 - A Charles Darwin University researcher who spent extensive time interviewing Aboriginal inmates has called for a radical rethink of in-house anger management plans. </description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 11:33:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Competition to engage, inspire humanitarians of tomorrow</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/socialchange.aspx</link><description>23/05/09 - Charles Darwin University will host the inaugural Schools for Social Change competition this Wednesday (27/5), bringing together NT high school students to present innovative solutions to social issues.
</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 15:47:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Research exposes loopholes in Australia’s immigration system</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/loophole_exposed.aspx</link><description>22/05/09 - Phony marriages and bogus skilled migration are bigger threats to Australia’s borders than boat people, according to research from Charles Darwin University. 
</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 09:32:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>PhD explores impact of poor telecommunications in remote NT</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090521-PhD-telecoms.aspx</link><description>21/05/09 - The role of telecommunications in the sustainable development of communities throughout the Northern Territory is the subject of a recently completed PhD.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 08:51:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hundreds to robe up for graduation</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090521-graduation.aspx</link><description>21/05/09 - More than 500 graduands will robe up to receive formal recognition of the successful completion of their studies at Charles Darwin University during this week’s mid-year graduation ceremonies.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 08:43:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Research sparks a quiet revolution</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090521-quiet-engines.aspx</link><description>21/05/09 - The whining of industrial equipment, air-conditioners and other devices relying on electric motors could be dramatically quietened, thanks to research by one of CDU’s newest PhDs.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 09:31:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Engineering our future, Territory students build the way</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090519-Science-challenge.aspx</link><description>19/05/09 - High School students from across the Territory have gone head-to-head in the 2009 Engineers Australia NT Science and Engineering Challenge hosted by Charles Darwin University (CDU).</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 17:43:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Students to get a Taste of Uni</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090518-Students-TOU.aspx</link><description>18/05/09 - Close to 400 Indigenous students will get a taste of tertiary and vocational education when they visit Charles Darwin University’s (CDU) Casuarina campus as part of the ‘Taste of Uni’ program on 19-20 May.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 10:16:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CDU Art Collection exhibition about to open</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/CDUArtCollectionexhibition.aspx</link><description>05/05/09 - This year’s Charles Darwin University Art Collection exhibition will be open for public viewing for most of May.
Entitled Gifted II – Recent Acquisitions, the exhibition will run from May 7 to 28 at the Gallery on the Casuarina campus.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 17:11:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CDU SIFE preps for national championships</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/nationalchampionships.aspx</link><description>1/05/09 - Charles Darwin University’s Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) group, which challenges students to apply their studies to make a real difference in their community, is gearing up for the SIFE Australia National Championships in Sydney in July.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 17:11:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Warm welcome for international students</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/welcome-international-students.aspx</link><description>01/05/09 - Hundreds of students and guests turned out at Charles Darwin University’s (CDU) Casuarina campus for the International Student Lunch, hosted by CDU’s International Office.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 17:11:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CDU students stand in UN ambassadors’ shoes</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/UNambassadors-shoes.aspx</link><description>Charles Darwin University students have taken up the opportunity to step into the shoes of United Nations ambassadors and gain first-hand experience of international relations.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 17:11:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Territory university nurses time-poor students</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/time-poorstudents.aspx</link><description>01/05/09 - Thousands of kilometres from her home near Melbourne, Bachelor of Nursing student Jennifer Jeremic gently inserts a catheter into her plastic patient “Frank”.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 17:11:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Enrolment figures continue to grow</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/enrolment-figures-grow.aspx</link><description>04/05/09 - Semester 1, 2009, at CDU is one for the record books with higher education enrolments up 15 per cent on last year. 
</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 17:44:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Call for new regional training funding model</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/training_funding_model.aspx</link><description>01/05/09 - Charles Darwin University Vice-Chancellor Professor Barney Glover has called for a new funding model for regional and remote education, built around the distinct needs of regional Australia.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 17:10:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Study links healthy landscapes with healthy people</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/Studylinkshealthylandscapeswithhealthypeople.aspx</link><description>18/05/09 - A ground-breaking study published today in the Medical Journal of Australia demonstrates links between Indigenous Caring for Country practices and a healthier, happier life.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 14:24:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Industry recognises CDU lecturer</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090514-Industry-recognises-CDU-lecturer.aspx</link><description>14/05/09 - Charles Darwin University’s Dave Cook has been recognised with a major award at the 2009 Welding Technology Institute of Australia Awards in Melbourne last night (Wed 13 May).</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 14:05:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CDU to work with Flinders Uni to grow NT’s own doctors</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090513-CDU-Flinders-Uni.aspx</link><description>13/05/09 - The Northern Territory will soon be producing its own doctors after the Australian Government announced $27.8 million in last night’s Budget for an NT-based medical education program.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 14:32:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CDU, BIITE join forces in $30m Indigenous education centre</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090513-CDU-BIITE.aspx</link><description>13/05/09 - The Northern Territory’s leaders in Indigenous education are joining forces to create the $30.7 million Australian Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Education.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 15:51:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bridging the gap between Indigenous Knowledge and international policy</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090507-Bridging-the-gap.aspx</link><description>07/05/09 - Issues surrounding Indigenous knowledge and international policy will be addressed by a leading international authority during an upcoming Charles Darwin University seminar.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 12:29:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Campus building and refurbishment work completed</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090505-building-refurb-work-completed.aspx</link><description>07/05/09 - Building work is now complete on a number of new and refurbished facilities on the Casuarina campus.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 10:04:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Indigenous Student Ambassador Program to be launched</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/090505-Indig-Student-Ambassador-Program.aspx</link><description>05/05/09 - The Indigenous Academic Support Unit, Gurinbey, based at Charles Darwin University’s Casuarina campus, is set to launch its new and innovative Indigenous Student Ambassador Program (ISAP).</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 16:23:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dynamic duo keeps it in the family</title><link>http://ext.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/a/2009/Pages/Dynamicduokeepsitinthefamily.aspx</link><description>1/05/09 - Rebecca and Cherrie-Lee Healy have plenty in common. The sisters live in the same town, work together, and also study together.

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