Notices

Calendar

14 December, Wednesday. Last ordinary number of the Reporter in the Michaelmas Term.

19 December, Monday. Michaelmas Term ends.

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

25 December, Sunday. Christmas Day. Scarlet Day.

5 January, Thursday. Lent Term begins.

11 January, Wednesday. First ordinary number of the Reporter in the Lent Term.

17 January, Tuesday. Full Term begins.

Discussion on Tuesday, 20 December 2016

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, 20 December 2016, at 2 p.m. for the discussion of:

1. Report of the General Board, dated 30 November 2016, on the rescinding of the Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos and the introduction of two new Triposes, the Medical Sciences Tripos and the Veterinary Sciences Tripos (p. 189).

Notice of benefactions

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:

(i)a benefaction of £5m from Winton Philanthropies, payable over three years, to support a Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication within the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics for up to five years;

(ii)a benefaction of £1m from Winton Philanthropies, which will be added to the Winton Fund for the Physics of Sustainability (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 990) to support an exchange programme between researchers forming part of the University’s Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability and the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley.