No 6493
Wednesday 31 January 2018
Vol cxlviii No 17
pp. 353–376
13 February, Tuesday. Lent Term divides.
20 February, Tuesday. Discussion at 2 p.m. in the Senate-House (see below).
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Discussions (at 2 p.m.) |
Congregations |
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20 February |
24 February |
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6 March |
24 March |
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20 March |
7 April |
The Vice-Chancellor invites those qualified under the regulations for Discussions (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 105) to attend a Discussion in the Senate-House on Tuesday, 20 February 2018 at 2 p.m., for the discussion of:
1. Report of the Council, dated 30 January 2018, on the membership and terms of reference of the Audit Committee (p. 360).
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:
•a philanthropic grant of US$31.4m from the Arcadia Fund, payable over five years, to establish an Endangered Landscapes Programme managed by the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, to support projects for the creation of habitats that are rich in biodiversity and resilient to environmental change, and to share novel and replicable techniques that can achieve those aims, over the same period;
•a benefaction of £5m from Cambridge in America, payable over five years, following a donation from WBH Foundation, to support a research programme on understanding heterogeneity and heritability of ageing at the single-cell level in the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and Department of Haematology over the same period;
•a benefaction of £2.5m from the Yusuf and Farida Hamied Foundation for the purpose of refurbishing and equipping the synthetic chemistry laboratory to be occupied by the BP Professor of Chemistry (1702). On completion of the refurbishment, Laboratories 177 and 178 (currently known as The Whiffen Laboratory) will be renamed the Yusuf Hamied Laboratory for Organic Chemistry;
•a benefaction of £2,002,000 from the Humanities and Social Change International Foundation to launch a Centre for the Humanities and Social Change supporting research in the area of the humanities and social change for a period of five years, within the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities;
•a benefaction of £1,995,000 from Cambridge in America, payable over five years, following a donation from WBH Foundation, to support a research programme on reversing decline in mitochondrial function in the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, the Centre for Misfolding Diseases, and the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute over the same period;
•a further benefaction of between US$1,845,000 and US$2,250,000, payable over three years, from The Institute for New Economic Thinking, to support an expansion in the activities of the Cambridge-INET Institute;
•a benefaction of US$1,500,000 from Cambridge in America, following a donation from an anonymous donor, to be added to the funds held in the Trophoblast Research Fund (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 985) to support the work of the University’s Centre for Trophoblast Research;
•a philanthropic grant of £1m from The ALBORADA Trust, payable over ten years, to support the Cambridge-Africa Programme;
•a benefaction of £1m from Dr Justin Chiu (Chiu Kwok Hung) to support a Lectureship in Chinese Urban Development in the Department of Land Economy for a period of ten years;
•a donation of £750,000 from the Wolfson Foundation, payable over three years, towards the cost of the University’s Heart and Lung Research Institute (Reporter, 2015–16; 6422, p. 473; 6426, p. 549);
•a further philanthropic grant of US$1,000,000 from the Arcadia Fund, payable over two years, to the Cambridge Conservation Initiative’s Collaborative Fund for Conservation, which provides grants for projects undertaken by CCI partners that address high priority biodiversity conservation issues;
•a benefaction of £600,000 from the Fitzwilliam Museum Development Trust to support the Fitzwilliam Museum’s Masterplan Feasibility Study. The gift is part of an earlier anonymous donation of £1m made to the Trust to support the work of the Fitzwilliam Museum, of which the remaining £400,000 has been allocated;
•philanthropic grants amounting to £426,630 from the Evelyn Trust to support research projects in the Schools of the Biological Sciences and of Clinical Medicine (the role of errors in the genome in dementia, £143,622; analysis of the brain’s network in dementia, £22,391; carriage and transmission of Staphylococcus in schools, £140,571; immune cells and the variable decline in pancreatic insulin-producing cells in type 1 diabetes, £88,200; why don’t tissue-degrading bacterial virulence factors also attack the pathogen that makes them?, £31,846);
•a benefaction of £370,000 from ARM to the Department of Computer Science and Technology;
•a benefaction of £366,000 from an anonymous donor to establish the Wolfe Health Neuroscience Fellowships Fund to support two Wolfe Health Neuroscience Fellowships in the Neurobiology of Human Vulnerability and Resilience at the Department of Psychiatry, to be known as the Wolfe Fellowships;
•a benefaction of £342,914 from an anonymous donor, payable over three years, to support the Learning Together Programme in the Centre for Community, Gender, and Social Justice at the Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law. The Programme promotes access to education in prisons, and the funding will primarily cover the cost of research and administrative posts;
•a benefaction of £300,000 from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, payable over three years, to provide support for the Faculty of Law as required and as the Faculty may determine;
•a further benefaction of £252,000 from the Wolfson Foundation to fund three doctoral students over three years as part of the sixth cohort of Wolfson Postgraduate Scholars in the Humanities, one in each of the following disciplines: history, languages, and literature. The University and the Cambridge Commonwealth, European, and International Trust have also agreed to contribute funding of £84,000 to enable a fourth scholarship to be offered in the same disciplines;
•a benefaction of £250,000 from The Gatsby Charitable Foundation to support building refurbishment under the Fitzwilliam Museum’s Masterplan;
•a benefaction of £250,000 from the Royal Society Wolfson Laboratory Refurbishment Scheme towards the cost of renovating and modernizing laboratories in the School of Clinical Medicine in which research into infectious diseases is conducted;
•a benefaction of £225,000 from The Ogden Trust to the Isaac Physics Project to support the Ogden Isaac Physics Fellowships;
•a benefaction of £200,000 from Mr Brian Buckley, payable over five years, to support scholarships for graduate students in the Faculty of Classics, to be named the Buckley Scholarships;
•a benefaction of £180,000, payable over three years, from the Phillipps Charitable Trust, to support a three-year postdoctoral research post, based in the Cambridge Judge Business School, to undertake research on the criteria that determine the success of start-up companies;
•a benefaction of US$240,000, payable over three years, from the GS Charity Foundation Limited to support the study of Buddhism at the University by funding a visiting scholarship and visiting fellowship scheme, a conference, and a lecture series on Buddhism at the University, and other related academic activities over the same period;
•a further benefaction of US$240,000 from Shell to support the Shell Laboratory for Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology;
•benefactions totalling £164,716 from the A. G. Leventis Foundation in support of the following projects: to the Fitzwilliam Museum, for a colloquium in honour of retiring Keeper of Antiquities, Dr Lucilla Burn, £1,674; to the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, for an Earth Optimism Summit, £10,000; to the Department of Zoology, to cover the researcher and distribution costs for the publication of a guide to sustainable cassava production, £153,042, payable over two years;
•a bequest of £150,000 from the late Mr Kenneth Hayter to support graduate students in the Computer Laboratory (now the Department of Computer Science and Technology);
•a benefaction of £142,603 from the Malaysian Commonwealth Studies Centre, payable over three years, to support a postdoctoral researcher in the Centre of South Asian Studies within the Department of Politics and International Studies for a period of three years;
•a philanthropic grant of up to US$200,000 over the course of two years from the World Wildlife Fund, the origin of which is the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, to support the Conservation and Financial Markets Initiative within the Institute for Sustainability Leadership;
•a further benefaction of US$170,000 from Microsoft Corporation to support the work of the Microsoft Cloud Computing Research Centre, which is a collaboration between the University’s Department of Computer Science and Technology and the Cloud Legal Project at Queen Mary University of London;
•a benefaction of £101,455 from Google, to support a doctoral student supervised by Dr Richard Turner, University Lecturer in Computer Vision and Machine Learning at the Department of Engineering;
•a benefaction of £100,000, payable over five years, from Mr Taylor E. Harris and the Harris-Taylor Family Foundation to provide Taylor Harris Affiliate Law Scholarships over the same period to overseas students participating in the Affiliate Law programme at Hughes Hall;
•a benefaction of £100,000 from the Hermes Trust, payable over four years, to support a pilot scheme of promotional activities and the conduct of admissions interviews in India being run by the University’s Admissions Office over the same period;
•a benefaction of £100,000 from Mrs Libby Thirlwell and Mr Angus Thirlwell to be applied to the capital costs of the Heart and Lung Research Institute (Reporter, 2015–16; 6422, p. 473; 6426, p. 549);
•a benefaction of US$135,733 from The MasterCard Foundation to support research in the Faculty of Education into secondary education in Africa;
• a benefaction of £80,100 from PT Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology Tbk, payable over three years, to support a postdoctoral researcher on a research programme on the Riparian Ecosystem Restoration in Tropical Agriculture (RERTA) Project (Sumatra, Indonesia) in the Department of Zoology over the same period;
•a further philanthropic grant of £75,000 from the Arcadia Fund to support open access initiatives at the University Library;
•a philanthropic grant of US$100,000 from Schmidt Sciences (a programme of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation) to support a risk assessment project regarding DIY community laboratories being conducted at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), based at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH);
•a benefaction of US$91,123 from Google to support the research of Dr Milica Gasic in the Department of Engineering related to collecting a large goal-oriented dialogue corpus;
•a benefaction of up to £55,000 from Santander UK plc, to supplement its three-year Scholarships and Awards programme, to be used as follows: up to £50,000 available until 1 October 2017 to provide an internship scheme to support at least fifty internships within Small and Medium Enterprises for current students and alumni of the University; and a gift of £5,000 to support the University’s widening participation strategy by providing at least ten students, ideally from disadvantaged backgrounds, with an international experience of study, work, or research in a foreign country;
•a benefaction of US$50,000 from Google to support the research of Professor Mark Gales in the Department of Engineering into improved interpretability and generalization for deep learning;
•a further benefaction of £15,000.45 from Andreas von Hirsch, Emeritus Honorary Professor of Penal Theory and Penal Law in the Institute of Criminology, to support the Institute’s Centre for Penal Theory and Penal Ethics.
The Vice-Chancellor also gives notice that he has accepted with gratitude a philanthropic grant of US$10m from the Arcadia Fund (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 771), which will be held as endowment in the Arcadia Conservation Fund to support the direct costs of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative Executive Director and the Executive Director’s office, following the approval of Grace 2 of 14 June 2017 establishing the Fund.
The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that he has received a proposal for the amendment of Grace 2 of 17 January 2018 (Reporter, 6491, 2017–18, p. 317), signed by 32 members of the Regent House as noted in the Annex below.
The Grace at present reads as follows:
2. That, with effect from 25 May 2018, Regulations 4 and 6 of the regulations for the Publication of Lists of Successful Candidates in Examinations (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 253) be amended to read as follows:1
4.(a) Subject to sub-paragraph (b) below, all class-lists shall be published by the Registrary and subsequently printed in the Reporter. A list shall be deemed to have been published as soon as either (i) the Registrary has caused a copy of it to be posted outside the Senate-House or (ii) a copy of it has been read in the Senate-House. Any copy of a list read in the Senate-House shall immediately thereafter be posted outside the Senate-House.
(b) The publication of a class-list in the Reporter, a copy of the class-list issued for posting outside the Senate-House or in any Faculty, Department, or other institution in the University or a College, or read in the Senate-House, shall exclude the names of any candidates who have requested the removal of their names in accordance with a procedure approved from time to time by the General Board.
6. The Chair of Examiners shall communicate to the Registrary as soon as practicable a statement of the day on which the Registrary may expect to receive the list and whether the list is to be read in the Senate-House.
The amendment proposed is as follows:
That, with effect from 25 May 2018, Regulation 4 of the regulations for the Publication of Lists of Successful Candidates in Examinations (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 253) be amended to read as follows:
4.(a) Subject to sub-paragraph (b) below, all class-lists shall be published by the Registrary and subsequently printed in the Reporter. A list shall be deemed to have been published as soon as either (i) the Registrary has caused a copy of it to be posted outside the Senate-House or (ii) a copy of it has been read in the Senate-House. Any copy of a list read in the Senate-House shall immediately thereafter be posted outside the Senate-House.
(b) Subject to sub-paragraph (c) below, a copy of the class-list issued for posting outside the Senate-House or in any Faculty, Department, or other institution in the University or a College, or read in the Senate-House, shall exclude the names of any candidates who have requested the removal of their names in accordance with a procedure approved from time to time by the General Board.
(c) The copy of the class-list published in the Reporter shall include all the names of those successful in the examinations. The online copy of the Reporter shall be accessible at least to anybody currently involved in teaching in the University or Colleges, whether as a member of the academic staff of the University, Director of Studies, Fellow of a College, or Supervisor. A copy of this issue of the Reporter shall be deposited in the University Library and be accessible to anybody with reading rights attending in person.
The Council will consider the proposed amendment to Grace 2 of 17 January 2018 published above at its meeting on 19 February 2018.
The following members of the Regent House have proposed the amendment to the Grace:
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D. S. H. Abulafia |
I. B. Leader |
M. J. Ryan |
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B. C. Allanach |
C. G. Lester |
B. J. Sahakian |
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J. D. Firth |
J. R. Lister |
J. E. Sale |
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A. Git |
J. A. Marenbon |
B. P. Simms |
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R. E. Goldstein |
T. G. Micklem |
M. C. Smith |
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R. D. Hedley |
A. I. Pesci |
R. J. Smith |
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S. Jackson |
M. G. Pollitt |
J. P. Talbot |
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F. M. Jiggins |
D. R. Pratt |
J. Whaley |
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M. P. Juniper |
T. W. Robbins |
P. Wingfield |
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M. H. Kramer |
P. Robinson |
A. Zsàk |
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J. Lasenby |
S. Russell |
1See the Notice of the Council and the General Board (Reporter, 6491, 2017–18, p. 308).
The Vice-Chancellor invites all staff and students of the collegiate University to take part in an online questionnaire as part of mycambridge, a University-wide consultation on the key issues facing the University. The questionnaire can be found at https://www.v-c.admin.cam.ac.uk/university-wide-consultation (Raven password required) and will be available until Friday, 16 March 2018. The outcome of the consultation will be collected in a report and will inform further discussions with the University’s decision-making bodies. The findings of the consultation will also be made available to all University members.
The Joint Negotiating Committee of the USS has decided to take forward proposals to change the benefit structure of the USS. Information regarding the proposals can be found at https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/general-news/proposals-for-uss-benefit-reform. A national employee consultation on the proposed changes is expected to start at the end of March; the University will also run information roadshows across a range of sites. Further information on how to take part in these will be emailed to staff and made available at https://www.staff.admin.cam.ac.uk/.
A notice has been published on the University Information Services (UIS) website at https://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/devices-networks-printing/managed-desktops/mcs/mcs-software/mcs-softwarecall to all those who currently use or are planning to use UIS Training Facilities or Managed Cluster Service (MCS) classrooms, including MCS computers in Departments and Colleges, to support their teaching, whether for organized courses or for other departmental or College teaching. The notice is also addressed to those desiring to use applications generally on these computers, and covers applications for all three platforms (MCS Linux, Macintoshes, and Windows). Requests for new applications and the upgrading of existing applications must be submitted using the form found at https://www.ds.cam.ac.uk/software (Raven password required).
The deadline for the submission of requests is Friday, 16 March 2018.