Prizes Committee
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Minutes of the Prizes
Committee Meeting held on Tuesday 27 January 2009
Present:
A D Bailey, Dr M Barnard, Dr
K Gregory (Chair), Dr J Lawrence,
Dr J Leaman, C Morris, C Yan Zhang
Apologies: Professor R C F Jones, Dr A Sutton
In attendance: M Ashby
09/1 Minutes
The minutes of the meeting of the Committee held on 6 November 2008 (P08-M2) were confirmed.
09/2 Matters Arising from the Minutes
09/2.1 Graduate
School
The
Chair confirmed that he would liaise with the Director of the
09/2.2 Brascote Trust Prize
The Chair would liaise with the Department of Design and Technology to clarify the decision process for this prize. ACTION: K Gregory
Post Meeting Note: The
Chair has liaised with the Department and has confirmed that the decision
process is appropriate.
09/3 Establishment of New Prizes
09/3.1 The Committee AGREED to the establishment of the following University prize:
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Vice-Chancellor’s Award for
Internationalisation
A prize or prizes to the total value of £500 to be awarded annually to an
individual or group from the student body at Loughborough University who, in
the view of the assessor panel, has shown the greatest sustained contribution
and dedication to developing internationalisation of the University during the
five years preceding the closing date for nominations. Students whose work has
been undertaken solely as part of their programme of study, however, are not
eligible for this award.
The Vice
Chancellor’s Award for Internationalisation has been established with the
intention of encouraging and recognising exceptional service and contribution
to internationalisation at
Arrangements
for the administration of the prize were noted and the nomination form approved.
It was agreed that the Chair of the Prizes Committee should chair the prize
assessor panel. Ms Yan Zhang agreed to prepare a web entry and advertisement
for the prize. ACTION: C Yan Zhang
09/3.2 The Committee AGREED to the establishment of the following departmental prizes:
a) Department of Information Science
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Professors’ Postgraduate
Prize
A prize to
the value of £150 to be awarded annually to the student with the best
performance on the M.Sc. Information and Knowledge Management programme in the
view of the programme board.
b) LUSAD
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Edward Sharpe Prize
One or more purchase prizes to be awarded for a work or works of art or
design by final year students selected from the Undergraduate Finalist Degree
Show by a panel chaired by the Director of the School. The work purchased by
the prize will become part of the University’s collection and be
displayed around the University campus as agreed with the Vice-Chancellor’s
Office.
Edward Sharpe was
a former principal of Loughborough College of Art and Design and set up a fund
to assist the College’s students on his retirement.
c) PIRES
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PIRES Dissertation Prize
A single prize to the value of £250 to be
awarded annually to the Part C student on the Politics with a Minor Subject,
International Relations or European Studies programme who obtains the highest
mark from among the three final year dissertation modules EUC640, EUC641 or
EUC642.
09/4 Amendments to Existing Prizes
09/4.1 University Prizes
a) Rolls
Royce Fuel Cell Prizes
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The Committee AGREED to the following amendment to the Rolls Royce Fuel Cell Prizes (changes in bold):
Up to three prizes to be
awarded annually to undergraduate students with the best final-year project
reports in a field of relevance to their company business, viz. any aspect of
the materials, manufacturing, construction and operation of solid oxide
fuel cells, including their degradation. The first prize will be worth £750,
second prize £500 and third prize £250. Consolation prizes worth £50 each may
also be awarded for excellent projects that do not make the top three places.
The judgment will be made by Rolls Royce Fuel Cell Prizes (RRFCP) on the basis
of quality and relevance.
New Criteria (change in bold)
Up to
three prizes to be awarded annually to undergraduate students
in
Part C or Part D of their programmes with the best major individual project
reports etc
b) BEST
Awards including the Vice-Chancellor’s Sustainability Award
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The Committee considered revised criteria for the BEST
Awards including the Vice-Chancellor's
Sustainability Award, prizes which were administered by imago in conjunction
with Loughborough Students'
The award coordinators may wish to investigate within the
University the possibility of awarding the winner of the BEST
Supplier/Contractor Award the status of 'Loughborough University Green Supplier
of the Year' or similar.
It was agreed that the Chair would take action to consider a
revised version of the criteria, together with a nomination form and
promotional text. ACTION: K Gregory
09/4.2 Departmental Prizes
The Committee AGREED to the following amendments to departmental prizes (changes in bold):
Department of
Information Science
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a)
Dunn and Wilson
Prize - undergraduate prize
A prize to the value of £100 is awarded for the best performance in the
final year of an Honours degree programme within the Department of Information
Science in the view of the programme boards.
New
Title:
Riley,
Dunn and Wilson Undergraduate Prize
b)
Dunn and Wilson
Prize – postgraduate prize
A prize to the value of £100 is awarded to an
MA/MSc Information and Library Management student for the best performance on
the programme in the view of the programme board.
New
Title:
Riley,
Dunn and Wilson Postgraduate Prize
c)
Professors’
Prize – undergraduate prize
A prize to the value of
£100 to be awarded annually to the undergraduate student attaining the highest
marks for a final year project.
New
Criteria including New Title:
Professors’
Undergraduate Prize
A prize to the value of
£150 to be awarded annually to the
undergraduate student attaining the highest marks for a final year project.
09/5 Discontinuation of Prize
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The Committee approved the discontinuation of the following prize:
AMEC
Shaping the Future Award – Chemical
Engineering
09/6 Nomination of Prize Assessors
The Committee NOTED the need to appoint assessors for the following prizes for 2008/09, in each case to serve for three years until 31 July 2011:
Dennis Holt Travelling Scholarship
3 representatives from LUSAD
John Guest Phillips Travelling Scholarship
Faculty of Science representative
Sir Robert Martin Social Sciences and
Humanities Faculty Prize
1 representative required
Sir Robert Martin Science Faculty Prize
1 representative required
T S Shipman/Hannah Community Prize
Representative from John Storer House
09/7 Civil Engineering Prize
Fund
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The Committee considered a proposal by the Finance Office
for the future of the Civil Engineering Prize Fund. It AGREED that the
Secretary should write to the Department to propose that the Finance Office should either pay £75 each
year into a named departmental budget code or it should transfer £300 per year
to the Department to cover the four Robert Moss prizes which would result in
the fund being run down over a number of years.
ACTION: M Ashby
09/8 Report from Assessor Panel
2007/08
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The Committee received a report
from the assessor panel for the Loughborough University Graduate School Prizes
and APPROVED the following changes to
the further particulars for the prizes:
a) a recommendation by the assessors that a paragraph which referred
to the Secretary carrying out additional research on students should be
removed;
b) ‘Please note that as well as academic success assessors may
take the following and other factors into consideration’ to be changed to
‘Please note that, as well as academic success,
assessors will take the
following and other factors into consideration’.
ACTION: M Ashby
09/9 Date of Next Meeting
November 2009 (Date to be confirmed)
Author
– Martine Ashby
January 2009
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