Graces

Graces submitted to the Regent House on 11 March 2020

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 These Graces, unless they are withdrawn or a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 105) will be deemed to have been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, 20 March 2020.

1. That the recommendations in paragraph 8 of the Report of the Council, dated 19 February 2020, on the partial demolition of the Atlas Building, West Cambridge, and the erection of modular storage and staff welfare facilities for the University Safety Office (Reporter, 6578, 2019–20, p. 350) be approved.

2. That the recommendation in paragraph 2 of the Report of the General Board, dated 18 February 2020, on the establishment of a Professorship (Reporter, 6578, 2019–20, p. 351) be approved.

Graces to be submitted to the Regent House at a Congregation on 21 March 2020

The Council has sanctioned the submission of the following Graces to the Regent House at a Congregation to be held on Saturday, 21 March 2020.1

1. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Professor Edith Heard, B.A., F.R.S., Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, Professor of Epigenetics and Cellular Memory, Collège de France, and Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, epigeneticist and developmental biologist.

2. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Professor Sir Roger Penrose, O.M., Ph.D., F.R.S., Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford, mathematical physicist and philosopher of science.

3. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Professor Elizabeth Jane Robertson, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.Med.Sci., of Darwin College, Professor of Developmental Biology and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, University of Oxford, developmental biologist.

4. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Professor Sir John Ernest Walker, F.R.S., F.Med.Sci., Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Emeritus Honorary Professor of Molecular Bioenergetics and Emeritus Director of the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, the School of Clinical Medicine, Nobel Laureate, biochemist and molecular biologist.

5. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr, Ph.D., Honorary Fellow of Clare College, Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, literary scholar, cultural critic, journalist and filmmaker.

6. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Professor Sir Simon Michael Schama, C.B.E., M.A., F.R.S.L., F.B.A., Honorary Fellow of Christ’s College and sometime Leslie Stephen Lecturer, University Professor of Art History and History, Columbia University, historian and art historian.

7. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Alison May Smith, C.B.E., F.R.S.L., Honorary Fellow of Newnham College, of Clare Hall and of Lucy Cavendish College, Senior Fellow‑Commoner in the Creative Arts of Trinity College, writer, playwright and academic.

8. That the title of the degree of Doctor of Music honoris causa be conferred under Statute A II 14 upon Ms Judith Weir, C.B.E., M.A., Hon. F.R.S.E., Honorary Fellow of King’s College and of Trinity College, sometime Visiting Fellow‑Commoner in the Creative Arts of Trinity College, Master of The Queen’s Music and President of the Royal Society of Musicians, composer.

E. M. C. RAMPTON, Registrary

END OF THE OFFICIAL PART OF THE ‘REPORTER’