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No 6415

Wednesday 17 February 2016

Vol cxlvi No 20

pp. 363–396

Reports

Report of the General Board on the establishment of an Al-Kindi Professorship

The General Board begs leave to report to the University as follows:

1. The General Board recommends the establishment of an Al-Kindi Professorship as set out in paragraph 2 below. The funding arrangements were scrutinized by the Resource Management Committee at their meeting held on 27 January 2016.

2. The Board has accepted an academic case from the Council of the School of the Biological Sciences for the establishment of an Al-Kindi Professorship, from 1 October 2017, in the Department of Genetics, named after the ninth century philosopher Abu Yusuf Ya‘qub ibn Ishaq Al-Kindi. The full cost of the Professorship will be met from the KAUST Fund for Biological Sciences, and an amendment to the regulations, as agreed with the Fund Managers, is set out in the Schedule attached to this Report. The Faculty Board of Biology have agreed that the election to the Professorship should be made by an ad hoc Board of Electors and that the candidature should be open to all persons whose work falls within the general field of biosciences unless otherwise restricted to specific fields for a single tenure by the General Board on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Biology.

3. The General Board recommends:

I. That an Al-Kindi Professorship be established in the University, from 1 October 2017, placed in the Schedule to Special Ordinance C (vii) 1, and assigned to the Department of Genetics.

II. That the amendment to the regulations for the KAUST Fund for Biological Sciences, as set out in the Schedule to this Report, be approved.

10 February 2016

L. K. Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor

Abigail Fowden

Helen Thompson

Chad Allen

A. L. Greer

Graham Virgo

Philip Allmendinger

Martin Millett

Chris Young

Robert Cashman

Rachael Padman

Anne Davis

Richard Prager

Schedule

By amending Regulation 3(a) of the regulations for the KAUST Fund for Biological Sciences (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 831) so as to read:

(a)the payment of the stipend, national insurance, pension contributions, and associated indirect costs of the holders of such University offices as may be designated or established from time to time by the University or the General Board as a charge on the Fund, including a Professorship which shall be known as the Al-Kindi Professorship,