No 6217
Wednesday 9 March 2011
Vol cxli No 21
pp. 585–608
The Council submits the following Graces to the Regent House. These Graces, unless they are withdrawn or a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 107), will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 18 March 2011.
1. That a Peter Lipton Lectureship Fund be established in the University, to be governed by the following regulations:1
1. The sums received from Dr A. L. Rausing and Professor Peter Baldwin, the Board of Cambridge in America, representing a donation from Mrs Lini Lipton, and Trinity College, to support a University Lectureship in memory of Peter Lipton, the first Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, shall form a fund called the Peter Lipton Lectureship Fund.
2. The first charge on the income of the Fund shall be the stipend, national insurance, pension contributions, and associated indirect costs payable by the University in respect of a Peter Lipton Lectureship in History and Philosophy of Science in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
3. The administration of the Fund shall be under the control of a Committee of Management consisting of:
(a)the Head of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science;
(b)the Secretary of the Board of History and Philosophy of Science;
(c)the Secretary of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science;
(d)the Director and Curator of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science;
(e)three persons appointed by the Board of History and Philosophy of Science in the Michaelmas Term to serve for three years from 1 January following their appointment.
4. If one or more of the offices in classes (b)–(d) are held by the same person, or if one or more of these offices is vacant or its tenure has expired, the Board of History and Philosophy of Science shall appoint one or more additional Managers so as to ensure that there are always five Managers.
5. After provision has been made in accordance with Regulation 2, the income of the Fund may be applied for the support of teaching or research in the history and philosophy of science as shall be approved by the General Board on the recommendation of the Managers.
6. Any unexpended income in a financial year shall either be added to the capital of the Fund or accumulated for use as income in any one or more subsequent years, as the Managers may determine.
2. That a Berwin Leighton Paisner Prize for International Commercial Tax be established in the University to be governed by the following regulations:2
1. The sum made available annually by Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP for the study of International Commercial Tax shall form a prize to be known as the Berwin Leighton Paisner Prize for International Commercial Tax which shall be awarded by the Examiners for the LL.M. Examination to the candidate who shows the greatest distinction in International Commercial Tax in Paper 2 of that examination.
2. The value of the Prize, provided there is a candidate of sufficient merit, shall be divided equally between the prize-winner and the Squire Law Library for the purpose of the purchase of books.
3. That, on the recommendation of the General Board, the title of the Sigrid Rausing Professorship of Collaborative Anthropology be amended to the Sigrid Rausing Professorship of Social Anthropology, and the reference to the Sigrid Rausing Fund in Regulation 1 be amended to read Dr Sigrid M. Rausing.3
4. That, on the recommendation of the Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Syndicate, and with the concurrence of the General Board, the Readership in Sustainable Reaction Engineering established by Grace 2 of 18 July 2007 in the Department of Chemical Engineering be reassigned to the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology with effect from 1 August 2011.4
5. That Regulation 2(c) for the Donald Wort Fund I be amended so as to read:5
(c)one Prize shall be awarded to the candidate who is adjudged by the Examiners for Part II of the Music Tripos to have shown the greatest proficiency in the Test of Performance in that examination.
6. That the regulations for the Sultan Qaboos Fund for Abrahamic Faiths and Shared Values, approved by Grace 5 of 3 November 2010, be amended as follows:
Regulation 1.
By replacing in line 3 the words ‘Abrahamic Faiths and Partnerships’ by the words ‘Abrahamic Faiths and Shared Values’.
1See the Vice-Chancellor’s Notice on p. 586.
2Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP have agreed to donate £500 a year for five years in the first instance to be divided equally between a Prize in International Commercial Tax in the LL.M. Examination and the purchase of books for the Squire Law Library.
3Statutes and Ordinances, p. 718. The Faculty Board of Archaeology and Anthropology, with the agreement of the donor, have recommended a change in title of the Professorship which is currently vacant. The opportunity has been taken to correct the name of the donor in the regulations.
4The Readership, which is currently vacant, was not included among the Professorships and Readerships reassigned to the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology with effect from 1 August 2008 (Reporter, 2007–08, p. 441).
5Statutes and Ordinances, p. 967. On the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Music, the Donald Wort Prize for Part II of the Music Tripos is to be awarded for proficiency in performance.
The Council has sanctioned the submission of the following Graces to the Regent House at a Congregation to be held on Saturday, 26 March 2011.1
1. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Divinity honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Anita Lasker Wallfisch, visiting lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity, cellist and a co-founder of the English Chamber Orchestra, survivor of, and writer on, the Holocaust.
2. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Law honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Shirin Ebadi, lawyer and judge, formerly President of the Tehran City Court, Lecturer in Law, University of Tehran, Nobel Laureate.
3. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Law honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Sir Martin John Evans, M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S., F.Med.Sci., Honorary Fellow of Christ’s College and of St Edmund’s College, formerly Professor of Mammalian Genetics in the University of Cambridge, Professor of Mammalian Genetics and Director of the Cardiff School of Biosciences, University of Cardiff, Nobel Laureate.
4. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Law honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Dame Alison Fettes Richard, D.B.E., M.A., Honorary Fellow of Newnham College, of Wolfson College, and of Lucy Cavendish College, Vice-Chancellor Emerita.
5. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus, of Newnham College, physicist, Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering and Emerita Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
6. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Sir Peter Mansfield, F.R.S., Hon. F.R.C.R., Honorary Fellow of Hughes Hall, medical physicist, Emeritus Professor of Physics in the University of Nottingham, Nobel Laureate.
7. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Sir Trevor Robert Nunn, C.B.E., B.A., Honorary Fellow of Downing College, theatrical director, formerly Artistic Director of the Royal National Theatre and Director Emeritus of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
8. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Music honoris causa be conferred under Statute B, IV upon Sir Colin Rex Davis, C.H., C.B.E., conductor, formerly Musical Director of the Royal Opera House, President and formerly Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.
1It is expected that these Honorary Degrees will be conferred at a Congregation to be held on Thursday, 23 June 2011 (see the Vice-Chancellor’s Notice on p. 586).