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1. A true legend of the city of Liverpool

   In memoriam: Cilla Black OBE

2. New workplace milk initiative

   Staff can now order milk through Catering Services for their team to collect once a week.

3. Outreach programme takes pupils to London

   Local school children have visited University College London (UCL) as part of an LJMU widening access programme. Access All Areas is an initiative from LJMU’s Outreach team which arranged the first university exchange for year 11 pupils.

4. Aldham Robarts Library to reopen on Sundays from 7 January

   We’re pleased to share that the Aldham Robarts Library will resume its normal opening hours and will once again be open on Sundays from 7 January.

5. Sexual fantasies: should you share them with a partner?

   Dr Jade Elliott, senior lecturer in psychology writes in The Conversation

6. Discovery of new type of space dust excites astrophysicists

   LJMU works with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on study of early Universe

7. Were sauropods swimmers or walkers?

   An international team of scientists, led by the China University of Geosciences in Beijing and including palaeontologists from the Liverpool John Moores University, has shed new light on some unusual dinosaur tracks from northern China. The tracks appear to have been made by four-legged sauropod dinosaurs yet only two of their feet have left prints behind.

8. Staff car parking update August 2023

   The university will continue to subsidise staff car parking until 31 August 2024.

9. LJMU nominated for two THE awards

   LJMU has been shortlisted in two categories for the 2024 THE Awards.

10. Academic Board vacancies call for nominations

    Formal nominations need to be submitted by 5pm on Tuesday 23 January 2024.