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1. Four useful apps for new students to download

   My LJMU, Canvas, Outlook and the Microsoft Authenticator apps are essential for all new students.

2. Are you feeling homesick?

   35% of new students experience homesickness. Find out top tips on overcoming homesickness and how to get support.

3. Six engineering students to showcase innovative products at New Designers show

   From an ergonomic kettle to a complete redesign of a ship bridge system, these product design engineering students are using their ambition and fresh thinking to solve 21st century problems

4. Liverpool's Pandemic Institute pledges £500k to research into monkeypox

   Dr Mark Forshaw successful in funding call

5. LJMU donation to Whitechapel Centre

   LJMU donates over £7k to help rough sleepers

6. Guidance on 'Plan B' measures on COVID-19

   Business as usual for teaching and research

7. Thoughtful design can help people with Dementia

   Professor Mary Marshall OBE, director for 16 years of the world expert’s in applied dementia research: the Dementia Services Development Centre at the University of Stirling, gave an architectural lecture which explained why certain designs in buildings can be distressing for people with dementia.

8. Christmas closure and support services over the festive break

   The university will close at 5pm on Thursday 23 December and reopen at 9am on Tuesday 4 January. The Student Life Building will be open 24/7 throughout the festive break including on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day.

9. Gouldian finches show us the effects of social conformity

   LJMU scientists have published research that provides a unique opportunity to investigate how personality can be affected by social context.

10. Partnership with ScreenSkills promotes High end TV careers to Merseyside pupils

    The university’s Liverpool Screen School (LSS) has delivered six roadshows to introduce year 10 pupils to the prospect of High-end TV (HETV) careers.