A Charles Darwin University (CDU) arts program could soon give corrections impacted students the opportunity to work towards a degree.
Since 2019 Dr Adelle Sefton-Rowston has been teaching women in the Darwin Correctional Centre how to express themselves through writing and the creative arts.
About 50 students between ages 18 to mid-60s have participated in the program.
Charles Darwin University (CDU) has hosted the Australian Medical Student Association’s (AMSA) Rural Health Summit for the first time in the Northern Territory.
The CDU Menzies School of Medicine sponsored and hosted the summit at the CDU Waterfront Campus, attracting medical students from across the country interested in rural and remote career pathways.
Decades worth of fire knowledge, data and experience were put to the test this month with the North Australia & Rangelands Fire Information (NAFI) service receiving an unprecedented number of map requests during the Barkly region bushfires.
A new project, between Charles Darwin University (CDU), Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and indigenous ranger groups, will investigate how sea level rise and increasing sand temperature may affect Northern Australia’s turtle populations.
According to researchers, climate change poses a significant threat to turtle populations in northern Australia with rising sea levels resulting in more and more turtle nests being drowned and an increase in sand temperature affecting hatching success and the gender of hatchlings.
Critically acclaimed journalist, author, radio and television presenter, documentary film maker and Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi man, Professor Stan Grant Jnr will deliver the 22nd Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture at Charles Darwin University (CDU).
The Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture is held annually by CDU and commemorates the historic Wave Hill Station walk-off led by Gurindji leader Vincent Lingiari in 1966. Over 200 Aboriginal workers and their families protested appalling pay and living conditions on Vesty’s station.
Respected First Nations artist and activist Harold Thomas will be presented with an honourary doctorate from Charles Darwin University (CDU) this week, in recognition of his significant contribution to the fine arts and activism for Aboriginal rights.
Mr Thomas is most well-known for his design of the Aboriginal Flag, but his body of work expands across more than five decades of mastery in a variety of artistic mediums.