No 6526
Wednesday 14 November 2018
Vol cxlix No 8
pp. 114–120
20 November, Tuesday. Discussion at 2 p.m. (see below).
24 November, Saturday. Congregation of the Regent House at 2 p.m.
29 November, Thursday. End of third quarter of Michaelmas Term.
30 November, Friday. Full Term ends.
4 December, Tuesday. Discussion at 2 p.m.
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 November 2018 at 2 p.m., for the discussion of:
1. Report of the General Board, dated 31 October 2018, on the establishment of certain Professorships (Reporter, 6525, 2018–19, p. 110; see also p. 117).
Further information on Discussions, including details on format and attendance, is provided at https://www.governance.cam.ac.uk/governance/decision-making/discussions/.
The Vice-Chancellor announces that the following candidates have been nominated, in accordance with Statute A IV 2, for election to the University Council, and that it has been certified to him that the candidates have consented to be nominated:
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Candidates: |
Nominated by: |
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Class (a) – two from among the Heads of Colleges |
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Professor Christopher Mark Kelly, CC |
Professor M. R. E. Proctor, K, and Dr A. N. S. Freeling, HH |
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The Rev’d Dr Jeremy Nigel Morris, TH |
Dame Barbara M. Stocking, MUR, and Professor M. R. E. Proctor, K |
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Class (b) – two from among the Professors and Readers |
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Professor Richard Vincent Penty, SID |
Professor M. J. Millett, F, and Professor A. L. Fowden, G |
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Dr Jason Scott-Warren, CAI |
Professor C. A. van Eck, K, and Professor D. C. McFarlane, JN |
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Class (c) – four from among the other members of the Regent House |
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Dr Sam Ainsworth, CHU |
Dr A. J. Hutchings and Professor R. J. Anderson, CHU |
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Dr Richard Anthony, JE |
Professor I. H. White, JE, and Dr G. T. Parks, JE |
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Ms Georgina Lyndsey Cannon,F |
Professor A. A. Copestake, W, and Professor P. M. Allmendinger, CL |
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Dr Ruth Lisa Chadwick Charles, N |
Dr D. W. McBride and Professor S. M. Oosthuizen, W |
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Dr Nicholas John Holmes, T |
Professor F. E. Karet, DAR, and Professor H. E. Thompson, CL |
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Dr Andrew Sanchez, TH |
Dr S. Lazar, CL, and Dr N. S. M. Guyatt, TH |
No other persons having been nominated, the candidates named above in classes (a) and (b) are duly elected.
It is necessary to hold an election in class (c) to select four from among the six candidates. Voting will open at 10 a.m. on Monday, 19 November 2018 and close at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 29 November 2018. Those elected will serve for four years from 1 January 2019.
Further to the Notice dated 31 October 2018 (Reporter, 6524, 2018–19, p. 87), the Head of the Registrary’s Office has received the following nomination for the Council’s Finance Committee, for election in class (b) by the Representatives of the Colleges:
Mr Jonathan Spence, Q, nominated by Dr T. K. Carne, K, and Mr P. C. Warren, CL
No other candidates having been nominated, Mr Spence is duly elected to serve as a member of the Finance Committee for three years from 1 January 2019.
The Committee on Benefactions and External and Legal Affairs has approved the naming of several buildings on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus as follows:
(i)The naming of the new Project Bellatrix Building as the Anne McLaren Building. Professor Dame Anne McLaren, who died in 2007, was a leading authority on mammalian genetics and helped to develop the techniques that led to human in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments. Her early work contributed to the development of new contraceptive methods that have improved the choice available for family planning. This naming is in recognition of her valuable and ground-breaking research.
(ii)The re-naming of the Wellcome-MRC building, currently home to the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR) and the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit (MRC MBU), as the Keith Peters Building. During his time as Regius Professor of Physic (1987–2005), Sir Keith was instrumental in the construction of the building itself, in setting up CIMR, and in negotiating for the MRC MBU (under its previous name of the Dunn Nutrition Unit) to occupy space within the building. This naming is in recognition of his influence in growing the School of Clinical Medicine, and in laying the foundations for the research-intensive School it is today.
(iii)The re-naming of the current Addenbrooke’s Centre for Clinical Investigation (ACCI) as the Sir Patrick Sissons Building. Sir Patrick, who died in 2016, was Regius Professor of Physic between 2005 and 2012, and was directly responsible for the creation of the ACCI. This naming is in recognition of his promotion of clinical research at the University.
(iv)The Project Gemma Building has recently been completed and will be known as the Experimental Medicine Research Facility, pending a possible donor naming opportunity. This facility, together with the Sir Patrick Sissons Building, will collectively be known as the Cambridge Clinical Research Centre (CCRC).
The Discipline Committee met on 28 September 2018 to consider a charge brought by the University Advocate against a student member of the University. The Committee consisted of: Dr A. du Bois-Pedain, M (Chair), Dr A. Winter, CHR, Ms F. Duncan, W, Dr J. M. Evans, CAI, and Professor Ian Hutchings, JN. Ms S. d’Ambrumenil, EM, acted as Secretary to the Committee, with Ms G. Parker, R, assisting. On the application of the student, the Committee consisted of senior members only, and sat in private.
The student was charged with two counts contrary to Regulation 7 of the General Regulations for Discipline, namely use of unfair means in two examinations as part of an undergraduate course. The student submitted a guilty plea with respect to each count. The University Advocate outlined the circumstances of the case and the student’s representative presented the student’s case and addressed the Committee on mitigation in relation to penalty. The student also made a statement.
The Committee considered all the information provided. The Committee noted the guilty plea. It did not believe that the student had set out deliberately to deceive, but rather that this was a case of plagiarism resulting from poor scholarship influenced by a range of mitigating circumstances at the time.
Taking all factors into account, the Committee determined, in accordance with Special Ordinance D (ii) 3, that a re‑mark of the two dissertations reflecting the extent and academic merit of the work judged to be the student’s own contribution, subject to any academic mark adjustment on the basis of the poor scholarship, was the appropriate penalty in this case.
The Committee noted that the re-scoring might result in a reclassification of the student’s Part II results.