Council, Committees & Congregation

Oration by Vice-Chancellor (transcript)

• A supplement with this week's Gazette carries the full text of the Vice-Chancellor's Oration for 2020

Questions to Council and Council's reply (13 October)

A meeting was held on 13 October, where the questions and replies published in the Gazette of 23 July 2020 were read out. A report of the meeting will be published in a future issue of the Gazette

Elections (26 November)

Reminder: a call for nominations has been announced for vacancies to the following bodies (full details are available on the Elections website):

• Council
• Audit & Scrutiny Committee
• Buildings & Estates Subcommittee
• Curators of the University Libraries
• Curators of the University Parks
• Committee for the Nomination of Select Preachers
• Nominations Committee
• Pool for Constituting Panels under Statute XII
• Socially Responsible Investment Review Committee
• Panel for Constituting the Visitatorial Board under Statute XII Part C
• Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Board
• Medical Sciences Divisional Board
• Social Sciences Divisional Board
• Board of the Faculty of English Language and Literature
• Board of the Faculty of History
• Board of the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics
• Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies
• Board of the Faculty of Philosophy
• Board of the Faculty of Theology and Religion
• Board of the Faculty of Law

Register of Congregation

New members of register (JW Atkin; AT Gardner)

University Notices

University Bulletin

Relaunch of Blueprint Bulletin

Blueprint Bulletin has relaunched this week as the University Bulletin, with the following changes:

• name change to University Bulletin to recognise that it relays important information about developments in the University’s response to COVID-19
• restructured to align with Staff Gateway and improve navigation
• blogs from a wider range of senior staff
• addition of letters section for staff to raise issues or concerns & weekly responses from senior team

Feedback and suggestions welcomed: internal.communications@admin.ox.ac.uk

IT Services

Multi-factor authentication for SSO

To reduce compromised SSO accounts and damage to University systems, multi-factor authentication will be implemented. More information on project website (requires a University single sign-on account to read); queries to afaproject@it.ox.ac.uk. Changes implemented as follows:

• 10 November: Webauth login page replaced with an Oxford-branded Microsoft login page; passwords remain the same but username must be entered in the format unit1234@OX.AC.UK
• rolling basis alphabetically by surname: users will need a code provided by text message to log in

People-related notices

Electoral Boards

• Alexander Mosley Professorship of Biophysics
• Rouse Ball Professorship of Mathematics

College obituaries

• Lincoln (including Sir (William) Eric Kinloch Anderson, former Rector, and Sir James Gowans)

Student prizes awarded

(NB - these notices can only be read if you have a University of Oxford Single Sign-On account)

Medical Sciences

• Pharmacology: Stutchbury Scholarship

Prizes, Grants & Funding

St John's College, Cambridge

• Various research scholarships for 2021 (open to those registered at St John’s for MPhil/PhD/MASt from October 2021; £15,200 pa maintenance grant plus fees)