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1. Metro Mayor becomes first LJMU Alumni Ambassador Fellow

   The Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, Steve Rotheram, has become the first Alumni Ambassador Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University.

2. Art and Science Exchange

   On Tuesday 27th & Wednesday 28th August 2019, the MA Art in Science programme at Liverpool School of Art and Design hosted an Art & Science Exchange workshop with members of the Biochemical Society. The exchange was held at the John Lennon Art and Design Building, in the Public Exhibition Space and X-Gallery amongst the MA Art in Science student's end of programme postgraduate exhibition, which showcases the outcomes of their three month research projects. These projects served as a basis for investigation of specific art-science interactions, and were supported by open discussions, hands on activities and a Liverpool LASER talk.

3. Microplastics ‘abundant’ in remote polar seas

   There are similar concentrations of microplastic pollution on the seabed in Antarctica as in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean, scientists have found.

4. Wonderful week of Bicentenary year graduation ceremonies

   Nearly 5,000 students and 65 members of staff officially graduated this week across 14 joyous ceremonies at Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral. The graduates will go down in LJMU history, picking up their accolades in the university’s 200th year.

5. Honorary Fellow: Professor Sir Howard Newby CBE

   Oration for Honorary Fellowship award

6. "Why I'm frustrated at how poverty is reported in the media"

   Lecturer Rachel Broady explains why she has helped to write new guidelines for journalists who report on Britain's poor

7. LBS and Circle Health scoop award for management training

   'Towards Outstanding' programme improved retention, motivation and learning culture at healthcare group

8. Chancellor sees "extraordinary" health students in action

   LJMU Chancellor, Nisha Katona MBE, dropped in for a visit to the Faculty of Health and was moved by the “extraordinary students” that she spoke with and learnt new skills from.

9. Criminologists use art and play to question ideas of justice

   LJMU academics work alongside artist to create a board game that brings the experiences of life on probation to the general public.

10. Discovery of a new great ape: The Tapanuli orangutan

    An international team of researchers have just described a new ape species, the Tapanuli orangutan, find out more about this exciting discovery here.