Graces

Graces submitted to the Regent House on 27 October 2010

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 These Graces, other than any which is withdrawn or for which a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 107), will be deemed to have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, 5 November 2010.

1. That a Children’s Kidney Care Fund be established in the University, to be governed by the following regulations:1

Children’s Kidney Care Fund

1. The sums donated for the furtherance of research into the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of children’s urological and related disorders, and other sums donated for the same purpose, shall form a fund to be known as the Children’s Kidney Care Fund.

2. The Managers of the Fund shall be:

(a)the Regius Professor of Physic;

(b)the Director of Medical Education in the Clinical School;

(c)three persons appointed by the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine.

Managers in class (c) shall be appointed for a term of three years. The Secretary of the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine shall act as Secretary to the Managers.

3. The Managers may at their discretion make grants from the Fund from both capital and income to any person engaged in research into the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of children’s urological and related disorders in East Anglia.

4. The Managers may at their discretion seek the advice of independent assessors concerning the merits of an application to the Fund.

5. No resolution of the Managers shall be valid unless approved by at least three members at a meeting to which all the members have been summoned, provided that a resolution signed by all the members shall have the same validity as a resolution carried at a meeting.

6. Any unexpended income of the Fund may be either added to the capital of the Fund or accumulated for use as income in future years, as the Managers may determine.

2. That a Peter Whittle Fund be established in the University, to be governed by the following regulations:1

Peter Whittle Fund

1. The sums given to the University by Dr Roland Tegeder and the Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and any later sums similarly given, shall form a fund called the Peter Whittle Fund, in honour of the research and scholarship of Peter Whittle, Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research from 1967 to 1994.

2. The purpose of the Fund shall be to support advanced research in mathematics, particularly at the intersections between established mathematical research fields, and between mathematics and other sciences.

3. The Managers of the Fund shall be the Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research; the Professor of Mathematical Statistics; and the Director of the Statistical Laboratory. Should either a single individual hold more than one of these positions or any of the positions be vacant, a further Manager or Managers shall be appointed by the Board of the Faculty of Mathematics from among its senior members, on the nomination of the existing Managers, so that the number of Managers shall always be three.

4. The first charge on the Fund shall be an annual mathematics research seminar named in honour of Peter Whittle, which shall be held at the discretion of the Managers at either the University of Cambridge or a comparable university in New Zealand. The Managers shall appoint annually an individual of professorial standing in the field of mathematics, who shall be responsible for conducting the Seminar.

5. After provision has been made in accordance with Regulation 4, the capital and the income of the Fund shall be applied at the discretion of the Managers for the support of innovative research in mathematics conducted by individuals in the University of Cambridge. Grants made from the Fund shall honour the name of Peter Whittle.

6. Any unexpended income of the Fund in a financial year may be either added to the capital of the Fund or accumulated for use as income in future years, as the Managers may determine.

7. If the General Board are satisfied on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Mathematics that the sum remaining in the Fund after a period of ten years from the date of establishment of the Fund is inadequate for the continuance of its activities, the University shall have the power to rescind these regulations and any sum remaining shall be disbursed in accordance with Regulation 2.