No 6499
Wednesday 14 March 2018
Vol cxlviii No 23
pp. 446–455
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 These Graces, unless they are withdrawn or a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 105) will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 23 March 2018.
1. That the recommendations in paragraph 10 of the Joint Report of the Council and the General Board, dated 20 February and 14 February 2018, on arrangements for academic recruitment (Reporter, 6496, 2017–18, p. 398) be approved.1
2. That the recommendations in paragraph 4 of the Report of the General Board, dated 14 February 2018, on the establishment and re-establishment of certain Professorships (Reporter, 6496, 2017–18, p. 408) be approved.2
3. That the Table of Fees attached to the regulations for University Composition Fees (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 152) be amended for 2018–19 and 2019–20 as set out in the Schedule to the Council’s Notice dated 12 March 2018 (p. 448).
4. That Regulation 5 of the regulations for Degree Committees (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 612, as amended by Grace 1 of 6 December 2017) be revised so as to read:3
5. (a) Subject to sub-paragraph (b), no business shall be transacted at a meeting of a Degree Committee unless at least one third of the whole number of members is present. No resolution that a person be recommended or approved for the award of a degree, or that a person be not so recommended or approved, shall be valid unless passed with the concurrence of the votes, cast at a meeting, of one half of the whole number of members of the Committee.
(b) Exceptionally, with the prior approval of the Chair of the Board of Graduate Studies, the approval for such a resolution may be obtained by circulation, provided that at least one half of the whole number of members of the Degree Committee support that resolution.
1The Council thanks Professors Cardwell, Ferran, and Gibson for their remarks in support of this Report’s recommendations (see p. 454).
2The Council thanks Professor Broodbank for his remarks in support of the proposal to establish a McDonald Professorship of Paleoproteomics (see p. 454).
3The Council, on the recommendation of the Chair of the Board of Graduate Studies, is proposing this change to allow for the possibility of approval by circulation in exceptional circumstances, for example, to avoid an adverse impact on the candidate concerned where there will be a delay in convening a meeting of the Degree Committee.
The Council has sanctioned the submission of the following Graces to the Regent House at a Congregation to be held on Saturday, 24 March 2018.1
1. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Law honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Sir Leszek Krzystof Borysiewicz, D.L., M.A., F.R.C.P., F.R.S., F.Med.Sci., Fellow of Wolfson College, Honorary Fellow of Wolfson, St Edmund’s, and Homerton Colleges, Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Medicine Emeritus, Chair of Cancer Research UK, physician, immunologist, and academic leader.
2. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Medical Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Dame Frances Mary Ashcroft, D.B.E., M.A., Ph.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., F.Med.Sci., Honorary Fellow of Girton College, Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Research Professor, Laboratory of Physiology, University of Oxford, medical physiologist.
3. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier, Director of the Department of Regulation in Infection Biology, the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin and Honorary Professor, The Humboldt University, Berlin, microbiologist, geneticist, and biochemist.
4. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Kt, P.R.S., Fellow of Trinity College, Group Leader in the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Nobel Laureate, structural biologist.
5. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Sir Michael Edwards, O.B.E., M.A., Ph.D., Honorary Fellow of Christ’s College, Professor of the Study of Literary Creation in the English Language, Collège de France, Paris and member of the Académie française, poet and literary scholar.
6. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Professor Robert John Weston Evans, M.A., Ph.D., F.B.A., F.L.S.W., Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Regius Professor of History Emeritus, University of Oxford, historian.
7. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Professor Ira Isaac Katznelson, Ph.D., Fellow of Sidney Sussex College and member of St John’s College, Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions 2017–18, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University, New York, political scientist and historian.
8. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Ms Joyce Maire Reynolds, M.A., F.B.A., Honorary Fellow of Newnham College, Reader in Roman Historical Epigraphy Emerita, classicist and epigrapher.
1It is expected that these Honorary Degrees will be conferred at a Congregation to be held on Wednesday, 20 June 2018 (see the Vice-Chancellor’s Notice, on p. 447).