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No 6352

Wednesday 18 June 2014

Vol cxliv No 35

pp. 633–643

Notices

Calendar

18 June, Wednesday. Congregation of the Regent House at 2.45 p.m. (Honorary Degrees). Scarlet Day.

25 June, Wednesday. Congregation of the Regent House at 10 a.m. (General Admission). Scarlet Day.

26 June, Thursday. Congregation of the Regent House at 10 a.m. (General Admission). Scarlet Day.

27 June, Friday. Congregation of the Regent House at 10 a.m. (General Admission). Scarlet Day.

28 June, Saturday. Congregation of the Regent House at 10 a.m. (General Admission). Scarlet Day.

8 July, Tuesday. Discussion at 2 p.m. in the Senate-House (see below).

19 July, Saturday. Congregation of the Regent House at 10 a.m.

Notice of a Discussion on Tuesday, 8 July 2014

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, 8 July 2014, at 2 p.m. for the discussion of:

1. Report of the General Board, dated 4 June 2014, on senior academic promotions (Reporter, 6351, 2013–14, p. 621).

2. Report of the General Board, dated 4 June 2014, on the establishment of two Professorships in the School of Clinical Medicine (Reporter, 6351, 2013–14, p. 625).

3. Report of the General Board, dated 4 June 2014, on the establishment of a Readership in Statistics in Biomedicine (Reporter, 6351, 2013–14, p. 625).

Grants from the Colleges Fund

16 June 2014

The Council has received the following report from the Colleges Fund Committee which under Regulation 4 for the Fund (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 1041) it now publishes to the University.

1. The amount available in the Fund for distribution in 2014 is approximately £3,980,000.

2. The Colleges Fund Committee has approved the following grants to be added to the endowment of Colleges to be paid on 27 June 2014:

£000

Clare Hall

264

Darwin

250

Fitzwilliam

341

Girton

117

Hughes Hall

569

Lucy Cavendish

462

Robinson

597

St Edmund’s

597

Selwyn

186

Wolfson

597

Total

3,980

3. These grants have been calculated by taking account of the model of a standard College with a basic requirement for endowment. The figures take account of the actual endowment requirements of the relevant Applicant College, having reference to numbers of undergraduates, full-time equivalent graduates, Fellows, and College Teaching Officers. The Committee continues to cap the grant to be made to any one College at 15% of the total available.

4. The Colleges Fund Committee has not approved any exceptional grants in addition to the endowment-based grants listed above.

Tour de France, 7 July 2014: University museums opening times

The third stage of the Tour de France is beginning in Cambridge on Monday, 7 July 2014. As a result, most of the University’s museums will be closed on that day; a complete list is provided below. Further information on opening times for the museums from Saturday, 5 July to Monday, 7 July is available at http://www.cam.ac.uk/museums-and-collections/whats-on/tour-de-france/tour-de-france-opening-times. More information about the Tour de France in Cambridge is available at https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/le-tour-cambridge.

Museum opening times on Monday, 7 July 2014

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Closed

Museum of Classical Archaeology

Open 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Closed

Fitzwilliam Museum

Closed

Kettle’s Yard

Closed

The Polar Museum

Closed

Sedgwick Museum

Closed

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Closed

Museum of Zoology

Closed for re-development until 2016