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1. Green business scheme shortlisted by Times Higher

   Clean Growth UK initiative impacts 2,300 organisations

2. "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.

3. A unique astronomical anniversary for the ARI: The Return of Comet Longmore

   Find out about how a comet discovered by an astronomer in the 1970s has been rediscovered by his son at LJMU over 40 years later

4. Four apps new students should download now

   My LJMU, Canvas, Outlook and the Microsoft Authenticator apps are essential for all new students.

5. MA Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice student gives their advice for kick starting a new business

   Rena, 39 began studying at LJMU in 2020 and decided to transform a café into counselling rooms during her second year of study.

6. 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.

7. Heating engineer wins Undergraduate of Year Award

   Engineering graduate Bas Pilar wins Undergraduate of Year Award from Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers

8. Were sauropods swimmers or walkers?

   An international team of scientists, led by the China University of Geosciences in Beijing and including palaeontologists from the Liverpool John Moores University, has shed new light on some unusual dinosaur tracks from northern China. The tracks appear to have been made by four-legged sauropod dinosaurs yet only two of their feet have left prints behind.

9. Four apps new LJMU students should download

   My LJMU, Canvas, Outlook and the Microsoft Authenticator apps are essential for all new students.

10. Four LJMU students share their Discovery Internships

    Meet Muhammad, Becky, Charlotte, and Justin, LJMU students who share their Discovery Internship story, where they balanced study and hands-on experience.