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1. Five things for our new students to do before they arrive

   As more students confirm their places at LJMU and we prepare for clearing, here’s five essential things we’ll be encouraging our new students to do as soon as possible.

2. Students scoop construction competition win

   Quantity Surveying and Construction Management programmes prove international quality

3. A celebration of citizenship

   LJMU Chancellor Emeritus Cherie Booth presents community awards

4. First female US president?

   Complex US politics system explained

5. Academic Board vacancies

   The Secretariat is now taking expressions of interests from eligible candidates for two vacancies on the Academic Board, a Directorate and a Professoriate member.

6. Writing for Wellbeing

   An invitation for students to take part in Writing for Wellbeing workshops.

7. Advice from our graduates and student officers to our first year students

   From student life to friends and relationships, words of wisdom to our news students.

8. 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.

9. International Day of Elimination of Racial Discrimination

   To mark the day, Marie Hie, JMSU's Black and Asian Minority Ethic Student Officer, talks about LJMU's reciprocal mentoring scheme and how we can all contribute to reducing inequalities

10. Why do young men get embroiled in street gangs?

    Dr Robert Hesketh's new book published by Palgrave 'Beyond the Street Corner' explores gang membership.