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1. Graduation - "It was worth the wait!"

   Amid relief and joy, almost 100 of our own university colleagues collected their degrees this week. We spoke to a handful of them ...

2. In Memoriam: Nickianne Moody

   It is with great sadness that the University announces the death of Nickianne Moody following a period of illness.

3. The ‘Green Hell’ of our ancestors

   Tropical rainforests were once thought unliveable but scientists, including Liverpool John Moores University’s Professor Chris Hunt, are showing that our human ancestors lived in these conditions, and in fact the forests themselves are long-term documents of human action.

4. Academic makes film for BBC Arts

   Dr Nadine Muller, Senior Lecturer in English Literature & Cultural History at LJMU, has appeared in her first presenter-led documentary, a short film for BBC Arts based on her research on the history of widowhood in Britain.

5. Exhibition of composite images reveals faces of 19th and 21st Century crime

   The difference between the fates of ordinary people and criminals is ‘paper thin’, as demonstrated by a new exhibition of composite facial images of 19th Century and 21st Century criminals.

6. Conductor delivers virtuoso performance

   Vasily Petrenko, Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra's Chief Conductor, on Russian history and music.

7. Microbes, pollution and freshwater ecology in China

   Research to help inform water quality monitoring

8. Dance soiree to explore ‘Growing Old in the Soviet Union’

   Participants are invited to watch a 30-minute dance following the life trajectory of two Soviet citizens and then to give views about ageing and older people as part of an LJMU History and Wellcome Trust project.

9. Royal Society funds LJMU partnership with schoolgirl ‘researchers’

   Go-getting school girls hope to springboard into top science careers by undertaking their own research with Liverpool John Moores University.

10. LJMU host 59th Annual Associated Schools of Construction International Conference

    Hosted outside of the USA for only the second time in the conference's history, more than 170 delegates gathered in Liverpool for the three-day event.