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1. Hate Crime Awareness

   Hate Crime Awareness Week is an important time to remind ourselves what constitutes a hate crime and what support is available both on and off campus.

2. All You Need is GaP

   Just a reminder that all externally funded projects must be both registered (a GaP project created) and costed on our Grants and Projects (GaP) system from 1st July 2020.

3. How the brain controls our sense of touch

   MRC Funded grant to offer most detailed insight yet

4. Liverpool Short Film Festival attracts massive interest

   Student organised festival receives 3,000 films from 15 countries

5. LJMU provide sport science at this week’s golf Open

   Professor Graeme Close leads nutritional and player recovery support at Royal Liverpool, Hoylake.

6. Armchair archaeological digs

   Researchers recreate lost worlds using drone technology

7. The Conversation: Most humans haven’t evolved to cope with the cold, yet we dominate northern climates – here’s why

   Evolutionary biologists Dr Laura Buck and Dr Kyoko Yamaguchi write in The Conversation on how human species (hominins) have coped with cold climates over the millennia.

8. Staff Governor voting now open

   All Professional Services staff have until 5pm on Monday 27 March to vote for their preferred Staff Governor candidate.

9. Cave bears may have been adapting to survive the ice age

   Recent research published in Quaternary Science Reviews on the long extinct cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) has found their attempt to adapt to the growing harshness of the last ice age before their extinction.

10. LJMU showcases exciting £30m New Robotic Telescope

    Scientists take project to city industry as partnership builds to launch