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1. A perfect day for Thursday’s graduation ceremonies at Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral

   Thursday 16 July 2015

2. Addressing gender imbalance within higher education

   For the fourth lecture in LJMU's Athena Lecture Series, three speakers from STEMM and non STEMM backgrounds presented to a packed lecture theatre comprising academics, students, professionals and Year 9 pupils from four local schools.

3. "Girls are good enough" – says LJMU student fighting for more women to enter STEM professions

   The UK's percentage of female engineers in the UK is far lower than other developed countries, according to a recent report by the Royal Academy of Engineering, with women only making up a small fraction of the nation's engineering graduates.

4. Improving PGT student identity and their experience through understanding their expectations on entry – the findings from an 11 University HEFCE funded project

   The seminar will provide an opportunity for exploration through some of the findings from the HEFCE funded project.

5. Representing the UK at European University Film Awards

   As the only UK university LJMU was one of 13 European universities to participate in this year’s first European University Film Awards(EUFA).

6. Tenfold increase in childhood and adolescent obesity in four decades

   World will have more obese children and adolescents than underweight by 2022

7. LJMU Wellbeing Week: See Say Signpost Suicide Prevention Training

   Training available during Wellbeing Week... It’s important that we continue to find out different ways to enhance our own and other’s wellbeing. There are a number of FREE training opportunities available to staff and students during Wellbeing Week including See Say Signpost Suicide Prevention Training…

8. LJMU ‘Eco-bricks’ set to extinguish Bangladesh’s polluting kilns

   Civil Engineers from LJMU are helping solve one of the most pressing industrial problems in Bangladesh with a new process for making bricks.

9. Law School’s Pro Bono Activity ‘Highly Commended’ at National Awards Ceremony

   LJMU’s Exceptional Case Funding Clinic was ‘highly commended’at an awards ceremony this week.

10. PFAS: you can’t smell, see or taste these chemicals, but they are everywhere – and they’re highly toxic to humans

    Dr Patrick Byrne, Reader in Hydrology and Environmental Pollution, writes in The Conversation on the growing dangers of 'forever chemicals' - PFAs - in our water resources.