Graduation review: Wednesday 20 November 2019
Here are some highlights of what happened at the first two graduation ceremonies of the week.
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Join the LJMU Gym
Annual fee of £25 for students and £40 for staff/alumni
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New Staff Gardening Group
The School of Biological & Environmental Sciences has been working on a project to improve Byrom Street Campus with 10 urban wildlife gardens.
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LJMU launch new Disability Sport and Physical Activity Network (DisSPA)
LJMU were joined by Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE DL & Professor Greg Whyte to launch new Disability Sport and Physical Activity Network (DisSPA Network) this month.
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Training: Supporting students from Gypsy, Traveller, Roma, Showmen and Boater communities
LJMU has long prided itself on offering access to higher education to under-represented sections of our community.
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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.
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200 firms supported in drive to low carbon economy
£5.2 million Low Carbon Eco-Innovatory hits milestone and bids for fresh funding
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Sea pollution explored in new podcast
Academics at Leeds Beckett and Liverpool John Moores Universities are using sound - and the short stories of Merseyside writer, Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) - to bring to life the magnitude of plastic pollution in our seas.
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Climate Emergency: Active Travel Plan to incentivise cycling and walking
Incentives for staff and students to travel sustainably are being put on the table to back the university's newly-approved Active and Sustainable Travel Plan.
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Climate change ‘opened and closed’ migratory door through Arabia for 400,000 years
One of the driest places on Earth has intermittently been a 'green corridor' for human migration due to historical periods of increased rainfall, according to new research.