Notices by the General Board

Senior Academic Promotions, 1 October 2019 exercise: Committee amendments

Further to the notice published on 28 November 2018 (Reporter, 6528, 2018–19, p. 134), the General Board has approved the following amendments to the membership of the committees:

General Board’s Senior Academic Promotions Committee; and
General Board’s School Committee (Physical Sciences)

Professor Richard Vincent Penty has been appointed as a member of the General Board’s Senior Academic Promotions Committee and as Chair of the School Committee (Physical Sciences), with effect from 31 December 2018.

Faculty Committees (Earth Sciences and Geography)

Professor Clive Matthew Martin Oppenheimer and Professor Sally Anne Gibson have been appointed as members of the Faculty Committee (Earth Sciences and Geography) in place of Professor Christine Susanna Lane and Professor Michael Allan Carpenter respectively, with effect from 29 November 2018.

Sainsbury Laboratory Board of Management

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 674)

With immediate effect

The General Board, on the recommendation of the Sainsbury Laboratory Board of Management, has approved an amendment to the regulations concerning the Board of Management to provide greater flexibility in the periods of appointment for members appointed on the nomination of the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. In Regulation 1 of the regulations for the Sainsbury Laboratory, the paragraph at the end of the regulation has been replaced with the following new paragraph:

Members in classes (a) and (d) shall be appointed in the Michaelmas Term to serve for four years from 1 January following their appointment. Members in class (b) shall be appointed for such periods as the General Board shall determine. Among the members in classes (a) and (b) shall be no fewer than three scientists working in institutions overseas and one business person with a scientific background.