Graces

Graces submitted to the Regent House on 6 March 2013

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 These Graces, unless they are withdrawn or a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 107), will be deemed to have been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, 15 March 2013.

1. That the recommendations in paragraph 15 of the Report of the Council, dated 21 January 2013, on the introduction of electronic voting in ballots of the Regent House (Reporter, 6295, 2012–13, p. 339) be approved.1

2. That a Sir Alan Cottrell Professorship of Materials Science Fund be established in the University, to be governed by the following regulations:2

Sir Alan Cottrell Professorship of Materials Science Fund

1. The moneys received in response to the appeal held by the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy to commemorate the scientific work of Professor Sir Alan Cottrell, FRS, former Goldsmiths’ Professor of Metallurgy, sometime Vice-Chancellor and Master of Jesus College, shall form a fund to be called the Sir Alan Cottrell Professorship of Materials Science Fund, the income of which shall be used to support the research expenses of the Sir Alan Cottrell Professor of Materials Science.

2. The Managers of the Fund shall be:

(a)the Head of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy;

(b)the Sir Alan Cottrell Professor of Materials Science;

(c)one person appointed by the Faculty Board of Physics and Chemistry.

If two or more of these offices are held by the same person or if one or more of the named posts is vacant or its tenure has expired, the General Board shall appoint one or more additional Managers to ensure that there are always three Managers. The Manager in class (c) shall be appointed for periods of five years at a time.

3. Any unexpended income in a financial year shall either be added to the capital of the Fund or held as an income reserve and expended in any one or more subsequent years in accordance with Regulation 1 above, as the Managers shall determine.

3. That, on the nomination of the Council, Professor Eilis Veronica Ferran, CTH, be reappointed Assessor to the Visitor of Clare College until the division of the Lent Term 2016.