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1. Duke of York Young Entrepreneur Award winners

   Three LJMU graduates received royal approval from HRH The Duke of York for their business enterprise, PHOM.

2. Simply the best!

   LJMU has secured an exceptional outcome in its recent Higher Education Review by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), becoming the first university to receive two commended judgements.

3. Engineering politics

   Chi Onwurah MP presents third lecture in Women in STEM series

4. Were sauropods swimmers or walkers?

   An international team of scientists, led by the China University of Geosciences in Beijing and including palaeontologists from the Liverpool John Moores University, has shed new light on some unusual dinosaur tracks from northern China. The tracks appear to have been made by four-legged sauropod dinosaurs yet only two of their feet have left prints behind.

5. Solving the evolutionary puzzle of menopause

   The evolution of the menopause was ‘kick-started’ by a fluke of nature, but then boosted by the tendency for sons and grandsons to remain living close to home, a new study by Liverpool scientists suggests.

6. Milestone for National Schools' Observatory

   Secondary school pupils in Swindon, studying a supernova which exploded almost a 1,000 years ago, have entered the history books by requesting the 100,000th image from the National Schools’ Observatory (NSO).

7. Graduates win Royal Television Society award

   Four Media Production graduates have won a prestigious Royal Television Society (RTS) award for their film ‘Gnomes.’

8. A peak behind the scenes of major BBC drama

   LJMU Media Production students go behind the scenes of Peaky Blinders which was filmed in Liverpool.

9. Support for Young Adult Carers

   On national Young Carers Awareness Day, LJMU announced an official package of specialised support to ensure young carers are able to benefit from the advantages a university education can provide.

10. Young chimpanzees reconcile through play

    Researchers at LJMU's School of Natural Sciences and Psychology have discovered for the first time that, unlike their adult counterparts who kiss and embrace immediately after a fight, young chimpanzees reconcile through play.