The University Council has submitted to the Regent House, the University's Governing Body, the names of eight renowned individuals, seeking authority for their admission to Honorary Doctorates at a Congregation in the Senate House on Wednesday 17 June 2015, at which the Chancellor, Lord Sainsbury of Turville, will preside.
The University Council has submitted to the Regent House, the University's Governing Body, the names of eight renowned individuals, seeking authority for their admission to Honorary Doctorates at a Congregation in the Senate House on Wednesday 17 June 2015, at which the Chancellor, Lord Sainsbury of Turville, will preside.
The nominees are:
Sir John Eliot Gardiner (Honorary Fellow of King's College), conductor:
Doctor of Music
Mr Neil MacGregor, art historian and museum director: Doctor of Letters
Sir James Mirrlees (Fellow of Trinity College), economist: Doctor of Science
Julia, Baroness Neuberger (Newnham College), rabbi and medical ethicist:
Doctor of Divinity
Judge Hisashi Owada (Honorary Fellow of Trinity College), judge and
diplomat: Doctor of Law
Sir Michael Rawlins, physician and pharmacologist: Doctor of Science
Dame Paula Rego (Honorary Fellow of Murray Edwards College), artist:
Doctor of Letters
Professor Judith Jarvis Thomson (Newnham College), philosopher: Doctor of Letters
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