Cambridge University Reporter


Graces submitted to the Regent House on 18 July 2007

The Council submits the following Graces to the Regent House. These Graces, other than any which is withdrawn or for which a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 107), will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 27 July 2007.

1. That the recommendations in paragraph 50 of the Report of the Council, dated 29 May 2007, on the financial position of the Chest, recommending allocations for 2007-08 (Reporter, 2006-07, p. 709) be approved.1

2. That the recommendation in paragraph 6 of the Report of the General Board, dated 1 June 2007, on the establishment of a Readership in the Department of Chemical Engineering (Reporter, 2006-07, p. 758) be approved.

3. That the recommendation in paragraph 5 of the Report of the General Board, dated 6 June 2007, on the establishment of a Professorship of Experimental Astrophysics (Reporter, 2006-07, p. 758) be approved.

4. That the recommendations in paragraph 6 of the Report of the General Board, dated 6 June 2007, on the establishment of a Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professorship of Finance (Reporter, 2006-07, p. 759) be approved.2

5. That the recommendations in paragraph 6 of the Report of the General Board, dated 6 June 2007, on the organization of the Department of Other Languages (Reporter, 2006-07, p. 760) be approved.3

6. That the recommendations in paragraph 9 of the Report of the Council, dated 18 June 2007, on the construction of a new building for the Kavli Institute of Cosmology (Reporter, 2006-07, p. 795) be approved.

7. That a Cuthbert Prize for Humanities in Medicine be established in the University, to be governed by the following regulations:4

Cuthbert Prize for Humanities in Medicine

1. The sum of £5,383 donated to the University by Susan Molyneux Warner and Andrew Calcutt in memory of their father Frederick Norton Cuthbert shall form a Fund for the purpose of awarding an annual prize for Humanities in Medicine.

2. The Prize shall be called the Cuthbert Prize for Humanities in Medicine and shall be awarded annually for an essay of approximately 3,000 words on a subject in the field of the interaction of the interests of the humanities with the concerns of Clinical Medicine.

3. The Prize shall be open to any member of the University who is pursuing clinical study in Cambridge and is a candidate for [Part II under the Revised Regulations or the New Curriculum Regulations for the Final M.B. Examination current in September 2007]〈Part III of the Final M.B. Examination〉5. Entries for the Prize must be submitted to the Director of Medical Education before 1 February each year.

4. The Prize shall be awarded by two Adjudicators appointed by the General Board on the nomination of the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine.

5. The value of the Prize shall be the income of the Fund for the financial year in which the award is made.

6. If in any year the Prize is not awarded, the unexpended income shall be added to the capital of the Fund.

1 See the Council's Notice, p. 874.

2 See the Council's Notice, p. 875.

3 See the Council's Notice, p. 875.

4 See the Vice-Chancellor's Notice, p. 874.

5 The words in angular brackets will replace the words in square brackets with effect from 1 October 2008. In the year 2007-08 the final Part of the Final M.B. Examination for candidates who started their clinical course before 1 September 2006 under the New Curriculum Regulations will be labelled as Part II; this will become Part III for all students in 2008-09 (see Reporter, p. 744).