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1. Metro Mayor backs new Centre for Educational Leadership

   LJMU is launching a new Centre for Educational Leadership to help steer the region's schools and colleges post-COVID.

2. LJMU PHD student Valeria Carini recognised at Pandemic Institute’s first Student Excellence Awards

   Valeria was presented the award alongside students from the University of Liverpool and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine with grants for scientific research, aimed to enhance preparedness for future pandemics.

3. EU Horizon 2020 funding to uncover the ‘dark side’ of the Universe

   We owe our very existence to dark matter. Galaxies as we know them, stars, planets, and people would not exist without its presence. Yet we still have very little understanding of its nature and origin

4. Residential Success for Children in Care

   LJMU welcomed 25 young people in care to their annual Year 10 Residential aimed at giving the Year 10 students a real taste of life at University.

5. Hundreds of local school pupils get taste of university

   LJMU welcomed almost five hundred Year 11 pupils to its Future Focus Days as part of the Universitys sustained widening access programme, giving young people an insight into the opportunities Higher Education can offer.

6. Study helps explain high rate of adverse drug reactions among women

   Biomedical research team from LJMU, Australian National University, University of New South Wales and Melio healthcare publish study in Nature Communications providing evidence of major difference in how men and women react to prescription drugs

7. How drone research is driving global technology

   Drone research at LJMU is branching out into new areas including working with Google Maps and Google Earth engines and introducing a ‘Civic Drones programme’ for the business community.

8. Astronomers catch Tatooine multiple star system as it forms

   For the first time astronomers, including Dr Richard Parker, of the Astrophysics Research Institute at LJMU, have caught a multiple-star system as it is created, and their observations are providing new insight into how such systems, and possibly the solar system, are formed. The amazing images taken from a series of telescopes on Earth show clouds of gas which are in the process of developing into stars.

9. Exploring Liverpool and beyond: six destinations within an hour of the city

   From historic cities to seaside towns and picturesque nature reserves, here are six must-visit destinations around an hour from the city, worth exploring if you’re studying at LJMU.

10. PhD student K-Ryan discovers rare supernova

    ARI student among authors of paper in Nature Astronomy describing event previously described only twice in history