No 6322
Wednesday 23 October 2013
Vol cxliv No 5
pp. 38–51
26 October, Saturday. Congregation of the Regent House at 11 a.m. (see p. 50).
1 November, Friday. All Saints Day. Scarlet Day.
3 November, Sunday. Commemoration of Benefactors. Scarlet Day. Preacher before the University at 11.15 a.m., Dr Jennifer Barnes, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for International Strategy and formerly President of Murray Edwards College (Lady Margaret’s Preacher).
5 November, Tuesday. Discussion at 2 p.m. in the Senate-House (see below).
9 November, Saturday. Michaelmas Term Divides.
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Discussions at 2 p.m. |
Congregations |
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5 November |
26 October, Saturday at 11 a.m. |
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19 November |
30 November, Saturday at 2 p.m. |
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3 December |
The Vice-Chancellor invites those qualified under the regulations for Discussions (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 103) to attend a Discussion in the Senate-House, on Tuesday, 5 November 2013, at 2 p.m., for the discussion of:
1. First-stage Report of the Council, dated 14 October 2013, on the restructuring of space and refurbishment of the basement, ground, and first floors of the Department of Genetics on the Downing site (Reporter, 6321, 2013–14, p. 35).
2. Report of the Council, dated 21 October 2013, on changes to Ordinances arising from the Technical Review of the Statutes (see p. 42).
3. Second-stage Report of the Council, dated 21 October 2013, on the project to fit out additional laboratory space at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute building (see p. 49).
The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that he has accepted with gratitude the following benefactions, of which both the capital and the income may be used in the case of (ii)–(vii):
(i)a further benefaction of £1.95m from Mr Dmitry Firtash to support Ukrainian Studies in the University. This new benefaction, payable over three years, will be used to support a Lectureship in pre-Modern East Slav Culture and will be added to the Ukrainian Studies Endowment Fund, which was established by Mr Firtash in 2010 (Reporter, 6201, 2010–11, p. 135). The Council is submitting a Grace (Grace 2, p. 50) to amend the regulations for the Fund;
(ii)a benefaction of £200,000 from Mr Harvey McGrath, payable over four years, to support widening participation programmes led by the Cambridge Admissions Office;
(iii)a benefaction of €222,700 from the Enel Foundation to support a research project on ‘Zero Incentive Scenario and International Natural Gas Markets’ to be conducted by the Energy Policy Research Group in the Judge Business School;
(iv)a benefaction in the region of £115,000 from the Dawes Trust to support two Ph.D. students at the Institute of Criminology, payable over four years, to cover maintenance grants and contributions towards tuition fees and travel and research costs;
(v)a benefaction of £96,000 from the Hauser-Raspe Foundation to support the development of the Cambridge Digital Library by the University Library;
(vi)a benefaction of £50,000 from Barclays Bank plc to cover the salary and associated costs of a project manager to develop public policy programmes in the University;
(vii)a benefaction of £20,000 from the Trustees of the Mitsubishi Corporation Fund for Europe and Africa, to be applied by the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) as part of the Collaborative Fund for Nature Conservation to support research projects undertaken by CCI partners and their collaborators.