The Council submit the following Graces to the Regent House. These Graces, other than any which is withdrawn or for which a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 105), will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 3 December 2004.
1. That a fund entitled the Stephen Hawking Endowment for Cosmological Research be established in the University, to be governed by the following regulations:1
1. The sum of US$1,845,000 received from the Board of Cambridge in America to honour the life and research of Stephen William Hawking, C.H., C.B.E., Ph.D., F.R.S., Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, shall form a fund to be known as the Stephen Hawking Endowment for Cosmological Research.
2. The income and up to one-third of the capital of the Fund shall be used exclusively to assist, enhance, support, bolster, and sustain research, cosmological or otherwise, in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, as chosen by and approved by Professor Hawking personally during his lifetime. Thereafter, the Fund shall be administered by four Managers who shall be the Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, the Professor of Mathematical Physics (1967), and two Managers appointed by the Faculty Board of Mathematics. The Managers appointed by the Faculty Board shall each serve for four years from 1 January following his or her appointment. The Managers shall apply the income of the Fund to the support of scientific research and activity in the University which would further human understanding of the fundamental questions in cosmology and gravitation addressed by Professor Hawking, or to the support of research which they believe would have been of interest to Professor Hawking.
2. That the regulations for the Ronald Popperwell Lectureship be rescinded and that a new fund called the Ronald Popperwell Memorial Fund, be established, to be governed by the following regulations:2
1. The sum subscribed in memory of Ronald George Popperwell, M.A., Ph.D., formerly University Lecturer in Norwegian and Fellow of Clare Hall, shall form a fund called the Ronald Popperwell Memorial Fund.
2. The income of the fund shall be used, at the discretion of the Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages for the promotion of study, teaching, or research in Scandinavian studies in the University by means such as the provision of lectures or seminars, the purchase of books for the Faculty's library, or arranging commemorative events such as concerts.
3. All disbursements made from the Fund shall be associated with the name of Ronald Popperwell.
3. That, on the recommendation of the Library Syndicate, the Librarian be allowed to lend the following items:
to the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim, Germany, for the exhibition 'Saladin and the Crusaders', from 15 October 2005 to 29 January 2006, three manuscripts from the Taylor-Schechter Genizah collection: T-S Misc.28.199, T-S Ar. 53.2, and T-S 20.113.
1 See the Vice-Chancellor's Notice, p. 210.
2 Statutes and Ordinances, p. 823. The Ronald Popperwell Memorial Fund was established in 1985 in memory of Dr Popperwell, who died on 22 December 1983, to support lectures by visiting scholars in the sphere of Scandinavian Studies. The Department of Scandinavian Studies in the University was closed in 1989 and regular teaching of the subject in the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos ceased soon after. The Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages have proposed that other means of using the income of the Fund should be permitted.