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1. Support for students and staff over the winter break 2025/26

   As semester one of the 2025/26 academic year draws to a close, please see LJMU’s opening times for buildings and services over the coming weeks.

2. Could exercising while losing weight preserve your muscles and help keep them ‘young’?

   Associate Professor in sport science Dr Jose Areta writes in The Conversation.

3. Care experienced girls and young women still at risk of unnecessary criminalisation

   Girls and women who have been through the care system should be diverted away from custodial sentences into community alternatives wherever possible, says a new report published today (Weds 4 May 2022). And the study adds that moves to prevent the criminalisation of girls in care need to be high on the agenda for change.

4. Graduation - "It was worth the wait!"

   Amid relief and joy, almost 100 of our own university colleagues collected their degrees this week. We spoke to a handful of them ...

5. In memoriam: Peter Law

   The university is deeply saddened by the death of Peter Law, who passed away peacefully after a short illness on Thursday 8 February.

6. Space Oddity: Most distant disc galaxy discovered

   LJMU astrophysicist works with European Southern Observatory and collaborators to confirm Milky Way-like galaxy from 700m years after Big Bang

7. Discovery Internships: Boost your CV and make a real-world impact

   Two recent LJMU graduates who undertook a Discovery Internship in their final year of study share the impact it made to their career

8. Alcatraz, Auschwitz, Chernobyl…the appeal of dark tourism

   Is dark tourism just another fad in the age of the selfie and tick list travelling? Gillian O’Brien explains its appeal and gives it historical context.

9. Farewelling: have you got your digital affairs in order?

   Marie Curie nurse and PhD candidate Sarah Stanley is researching 'digital 'legacies'

10. Honorary Fellows: Gillian Miller and Kevin Fearon

    Read the oration for Gillian Miller and Kevin Fearon on the award of their Honorary Fellowships from LJMU, the University's highest honour.