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1. Ancient skeletal hand could reveal evolutionary secrets

   A 4.4 million-year-old skeleton could show how early humans moved and began to walk upright, according to new research.

2. Summer and graduate placement opportunities

   A great range of 200-hour part-time (20 hours per week over 10 weeks) and five-month full-time, paid student summer placements are currently available exclusively to LJMU students.

3. Get 'Too Good to Go' food from Core Cafes

   To further help with the Cost of Living and as part of our commitment to sustainability at LJMU, we’re launching the Too Good to Go app for students and staff this September.

4. In memoriam: Professor James L Ford

   The university is sad to announce the death of Professor James L Ford

5. Scientists discover the dawn of spoken language evolution

   Why did our ancestors combine a consonant with a vowel to make up the first word? Scientists from several institutes have found some clues to the answer.

6. Events and support for disabled and neurodivergent students

   Disability History Month begins this week (16 November- 16 December) and LJMU has a range of events, careers advice sessions and support available for students.

7. Networking Breakfast at Exchange Station

   Research and Innovation Services (RIS) will be holding an informal networking breakfast event, Coffee and Croissant, at Exchange Station on Thursday 7th February from 8.15am - 9.30am.

8. Thermal ‘fingerprinting’ to help conserve rare animals in Madagascar

   SCIENTIFIC methods developed at Liverpool John Moores University and Chester Zoo to count animals from the air are being adopted in the wilds of Madagascar.

9. 7 ways Liverpool was key to improvements in health care

   We look at how and why Liverpool was a catalyst for change when it came to public health and how it continues to make a difference in health care today.

10. Support over the spring break and what to do in Liverpool

    For most of our students following the standard academic calendar, the spring break runs from 9 to 24 April. Whether you are heading home or staying around Liverpool, here is some advice on where to go, what to do if you need help and support and those all important Library opening times.