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1. Honorary Fellowships and Corporate Awards

   Nominations are now invited for individuals and organisations to be considered for Honorary Fellowships and Awards.

2. Exercise help for cancer patients

   Wearable tech project to improve outcomes for patients at Clatterbridge hospital

3. Vice-Chancellor appointed Chairman of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

   LJMU Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive, Professor Nigel Weatherill, has been appointed Chairman of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. The announcement of Professor Weatherill’s appointment as Chair for an initial three-year term has been made following approval of the recommendation by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Board of Directors.

4. In memoriam: Caroline Aherne

   It is with great sadness that the University announces the death of former student Caroline Aherne at the age of 52.

5. LJMU donates microscopes for African youngsters

   A project is underway to ship LJMU microscopes to Africa.

6. Students scoop construction competition win

   Quantity Surveying and Construction Management programmes prove international quality

7. The Conversation: Woman spends 500 days alone in a cave – how extreme isolation can alter your sense of time

   Reader in Experimental Psychology Dr Ruth Ogden writes for The Conversation on the extraordinary experience of Beatriz Flamini.

8. We are failing in a key cornerstone of democracy in the UK: justice

   We spoke to Dr Lizz Peatfield JP about the failings of the criminal justice system after the publication of her new book The Reality of Justice in England's lower courts

9. Ice Age bone samples reveal DNA links between wolves and dogs

   An international group of geneticists and archaeologists have analysed bones samples, some provided by LJMU, that reveal the ancestry of dogs can be traced to at least two populations of ancient wolves.

10. Student Information System Upgrade

    The University’s Student Information System (SIS) is being upgraded. SIS will be unavailable during the upgrade, from 5pm on Thursday 21st November until 8am on Tuesday 26th November.