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1. Weight management programme 90% effective in tackling childhood obesity

   Results of LJMU GOALS programme.

2. Monocled Mutineer revisited

   Honorary Fellow Paul McGann returned to the University for a special public event, presented by the School of Humanities and Social Science and as part of the University’s Merseyside at War project, to commemorate the acclaimed BBC drama in which he starred, the Monocled Mutineer.

3. Congratulations to our graduates at Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology

   More than 170 Sri Lankans achieve LJMU degrees in Class of 2024

4. Megalith tombs were family graves in European Stone Age

   In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, an international research team, led by Uppsala University with co-author Linus Girdland-Flink of LJMU, discovered kin relationships among Stone Age individuals buried in megalithic tombs on Ireland and in Sweden.

5. Historic steam tug-boat restored with a little help from LJMU

   Historic steam boat restored with help from students at LJMU

6. LJMU awarded £44,000 to promote chemistry to school pupils in hard to reach areas

   LJMU has been awarded £44,000 to expand an innovative chemistry outreach scheme to encourage young people from 11 schools across deprived areas of Liverpool City Region, to become the scientists of the future.

7. A study of the chimpanzee precursor of HIV-1 could lead to a better AIDS vaccine

   Liverpool John Moores University has been part of an international research team, led by Professor Beatrice Hahn and colleagues at the Perelman School of Medicine, who have been studying the origin of HIV-1 in non-human primates for decades.

8. Gouldian finches show us the effects of social conformity

   LJMU scientists have published research that provides a unique opportunity to investigate how personality can be affected by social context.

9. University welcomes national drive for social mobility

   Liverpool John Moores University has reaffirmed its commitment to enhancing social mobility, as Universities UK (UUK) publishes a report by the Social Mobility Taskforce, which makes national recommendations for boosting access to higher education.

10. Americans learn about Black history in Liverpool

    Morehouse College students visit LJMU to hear about our reckoning with our slave trade past