Chapter XII - 1451k - the University Offices - University of Cambridge

FUNDS, STUDENTSHIPS, PRIZES, LECTURESHIPS, ETC.
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Sciences Tripos for an outstanding performance in ecology in the examination for that subject unless
the Awarders are of the opinion that there is no candidate of sufficient merit to receive the Prize.
3. The Prize shall consist of books, to the value of the annual income of the Fund, selected by the
prize-winner subject to the approval of the Head of the Department of Plant Sciences.
4. If in any year no award is made the income for that year shall be added to the capital of the
Fund.
Value.
If not awarded.
STEPHEN H AWKING ENDOWMENT FOR COSMOLOGICAL RESEARCH
1. The sum of US$1,845,000 received from the Board of Cambridge in America to honour the life
and research of Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, Ph.D., FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics,
Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, shall form a fund to be known as the Stephen Hawking
Endowment for Cosmological Research.
2. The income and up to one-third of the capital of the Fund shall be used exclusively to assist,
enhance, support, bolster, and sustain research, cosmological or otherwise, in the Department of Applied
Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, as chosen by and approved by Professor Hawking personally
during his lifetime. Thereafter, the Fund shall be administered by four Managers who shall be the
Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, the Professor of Mathematical
Physics (1967), and two Managers appointed by the Faculty Board of Mathematics. The Managers
appointed by the Faculty Board shall each serve for four years from 1 January following his or her
appointment. The Managers shall apply the income of the Fund to the support of scientific research
and activity in the University which would further human understanding of the fundamental questions
in cosmology and gravitation addressed by Professor Hawking, or to the support of research which
they believe would have been of interest to Professor Hawking.
Title.
Purpose.
STEPHEN H AWKING TRUST FUND
1. The monies received by the University to perpetuate the intellectual legacy of Professor Stephen
Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, in the field of theoretical cosmology shall form a fund
to be known as the Stephen Hawking Trust Fund.
2. The Fund may include both endowment and expendable capital contributed by donors. The
expendable capital, and the income from the endowment shall be used to support the activities of a
Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University, whose goals shall be:
(i) to promote research and postgraduate teaching in theoretical cosmology within the University;
(ii) to co-operate with outside bodies in the promotion of research and postgraduate teaching in
theoretical cosmology internationally.
3. The administration of the Fund shall be under the control of a Board of Managers consisting of:
(a) the Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, who shall serve
as the Chairman;
(b) the Professor of Mathematical Physics (1967);
(c) two Professors working in a relevant scientific discipline appointed by the Faculty Board of
Mathematics;
(d) one additional University Teaching Officer in the Faculty of Mathematics co-opted by the
Managers;
(e) Professor Stephen Hawking during his life-time;
(f) up to three distinguished persons external to the University appointed by the General Board on
the recommendation of the Managers.
4. Members in classes (c) and (f) shall be appointed in the Michaelmas Term to serve for four years
from 1 January following their appointment. Co-opted members in class (d) shall serve until 31 December
of the year in which they are co-opted or of the year following, as the Managers shall determine at
the time of their co-optation.
5. The Director of the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology shall be appointed by the General Board
on the recommendation of the Managers. He or she shall hold office for four years, and shall be
eligible for reappointment. The Director shall serve as Secretary to the Board.
6. The Directorship of the Centre shall be held concurrently with a University office in the Department
of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
Title and
purpose.
Managers.
Tenure of
Managers.
Director of the
Centre for
Theoretical
Cosmology.