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1. Academic Board election voting now open

   Staff have until 5pm on Thursday 14 September to vote for their preferred Academic Board candidates.

2. Liverpool unveils world-class Knowledge Quarter vision

   Liverpool’s leading politicians, universities and hospitals came together today to launch their multibillion pound vision for the redevelopment of a major part of the city centre.

3. Anthropologists play down links between modern humans and Denisovans

   An anthropologist at Liverpool John Moores University and other researchers have played down links between modern Asian physiology and a recently discovered early human species, Denisova hominins.

4. New muscle study to help combat frailty in old age

   Read how Scientists at LJMU and the Australian Catholic University have established a new technique for studying muscle growth in humans that could advance treatments to prevent frailty in old age.

5. innovation investment week

   LJMU welcomed hundreds of investors, entrepreneurs and policymakers to a summit to conclude the Liverpool City Region’s first ever Innovation Investment Week.

6. VC PhD Studentship Awards and Thematic Doctoral Programme Awards 2023/24

   LJMU has awarded 21 VC PhD Studentship awards to exceptional students at the university.

7. Rethinking the orangutan

   The critically endangered orangutan—one of human’s closet living relatives—has become a symbol of wild nature’s vulnerability in the face of human actions and an icon of rainforest conservation.

8. Study reveals new insights into the origins of Scotland's mysterious Picts

   A newly published study in PLOS genetics led by School of Biology and Environmental Sciences experts Dr Adeline Morez, Prof Joel D. Irish and Dr Linus Girdland Flink is helping to shed new light on the origins of Scotland’s Picts.

9. 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.

10. Cheering for research and innovation at the Royal Court

    LJMU welcomed nearly 300 staff to the third Research and Innovation Day at the Royal Court on 20 June.