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HEBDOMADAL COUNCIL

1 Status of Master of Arts

Mr Vice-Chancellor reports that the status of Master of Arts under the provisions of Ch. V, Sect. v, cl. 1 (Statutes, 1997, p. 367) has been accorded to the following person who is qualified for membership of Congregation:

RICHARD JOHN TURNER, Department of Dermatology

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2 Register of Congregation

Mr Vice-Chancellor reports that the following names have been added to the Register of Congregation:

Grimley, M., MA, D.Phil., Lincoln
Turner, R.J., MA status, Department of Dermatology

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CONGREGATION 7 March

1 Declaration of approval of Special Resolutions approving the conferment of Honorary Degrees

(1) That the conferment of the Degree of Doctor of Civil Law, honoris causa, upon HELEN BAMBER, OBE, Founder and Director of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, be approved.

(2) That the conferment of the Degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, upon DAME JUDI DENCH, DBE, actress, be approved.

(3) That the conferment of the Degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, upon SIR HOWARD HODGKIN, CBE, Honorary Fellow of Brasenose College, painter, be approved.

(4) That the conferment of the Degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, upon THE VISCOUNT RUNCIMAN, CBE (MA Cambridge), FBA, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College, sociologist, be approved.

(5) That the conferment of the Degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, upon QUENTIN ROBERT DUTHIE SKINNER (MA Cambridge), FBA, Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge, be approved.

(6) That the conferment of the Degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, upon SIR AARON KLUG, OM (B.SC. Witwatersrand; M.SC. Cape Town; PH.D., SC.D. Cambridge), President of the Royal Society, Honorary Fellow of Peterhouse and of Trinity College, Cambridge, formerly Director of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, be approved.

(7) That the conferment of the Degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, upon SIR MARTIN REES (MA, PH.D. Cambridge), FRS, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, Royal Society Research Professor, University of Cambridge, Astronomer Royal, be approved.

(8) That the conferment of the Degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, upon JANET DAVISON ROWLEY (PH.D., BS, MD Chicago), Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, be approved.

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2 Promulgation of Statute

A form of Statute was promulgated. No notice of opposition having been given, Mr Vice-Chancellor declared the preamble carried of the proposed Statute establishing the Degree of Doctor of Clinical Psychology.

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BOARDS OF FACULTIES

For changes in regulations for examinations, to come into effect on 24 March, see `Examinations and Boards' below.

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