Cambridge University Reporter


Title of Honorary Professor: Notice

In accordance with the regulations for the titles of Honorary Professor and Honorary Reader, (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 636), and on the recommendation of the Faculty Boards concerned, the General Board have conferred the following titles on the persons named:

For five years with effect from 1 October 2006:

Honorary Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology: Dr Sheila Bingham, Director, MRC Centre for Nutrition in Cancer Prevention and Survival, Cambridge, in the Faculty of Clinical Medicine.

Honorary Professor of Pure Mathematics: Professor Béla Bollobás, T, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.

Honorary Professor of Theoretical Seismology: Dr Christopher Hugh Chapman, CHR, Scientific Adviser, Schlumberger Cambridge Research, in the Department of Earth Sciences.

Honorary Professor of Pathogen Genomics: Professor Gordon Dougan, Scientific Group Leader, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, in the Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Honorary Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience: Dr John Duncan, Assistant Director, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, in the Department of Experimental Psychology.

Honorary Professor of Conservation Science: Dr Rhys Edwards Green, CTH, RSPB Senior Research Fellow in Conservation Biology, Department of Zoology, in the Department of Zoology.

Honorary Professor of Latin Literature: Dr Philip Russell Hardie, T, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, in the Faculty of Classics.

Honorary Professor of Poetry: Professor Angela Leighton, T, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, in the Faculty of English.

Honorary Professor of Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Professor Robert David Lethbridge, F, Master, Fitzwilliam College, in the Department of French.

Honorary Professor of Historical Bibliography: Dr David John McKitterick, T, Fellow and Librarian, Trinity College, in the Faculty of English.

Honorary Professor of the History of Art: Dr Nigel John Morgan, T, Head of Research, Parker Library Medieval Manuscripts Project, Corpus Christi College, in the Department of History of Art.

Honorary Professor of Theoretical Physics: Professor Christopher Neville Pope, JN, Distinguished Professor, Texas A & M University, in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

Honorary Professor of Biostatistics: Dr David John Spiegelhalter, Senior Scientist, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, in the Faculty of Clinical Medicine.

Honorary Professor of Epidemiology: Dr Nicholas John Wareham, W, Director, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, in the Faculty of Clinical Medicine.

For four years with effect from 1 October 2006:

Honorary Professor of Historical Ecology: Dr Oliver Rackham, CC, Fellow and Praelector, Corpus Christi College, in the Department of Plant Sciences.

For two years with effect from 1 October 2006:

Honorary Professor of the History of Music Theory: Professor Ian Bent, Anne Parsons Bender Emeritus Professor of Music, Columbia University, New York, in the Faculty of Music.