Noel and Zoe Hassell Botany Fund [F8036]

Mr Cleve Hassell having donated an initial sum of money, with the intention of augmenting it at intervals, for the purpose of establishing a fund in honour of his parents, Noel and Zoe Hassell, to support the study of botany at the University, the Noel and Zoe Hassell Botany Fund is established and is administered in accordance with the following regulations.

1. There is a Noel and Zoe Hassell Botany Fund Committee comprising:

(a) the Head of the School of Plant Biology;

(b) two senior members of the academic staff of the School of Plant Biology; and

(c) Mr Cleve Hassell during his lifetime.

2. The income from the fund after capitalisation, as agreed by the committee, is used for any of the following purposes:

(a) to cover or assist with the costs of bringing a visiting scholar to the School of Plant Biology;

(b) to cover or assist with support for travel costs, equipment costs, or other approved costs for staff of the school or for a student or students undertaking a postgraduate research degree in botany;

(c) to provide or augment a scholarship for a student or students undertaking a postgraduate research degree in botany;

(d) to provide short-term assistance to postgraduate research students in botany who are in the final stage of writing up their theses;

(e) to provide funds to postgraduate research students in botany who have submitted their theses to enable them to prepare their research for publication;

(f) to provide funds for the employment as temporary teaching staff in plant biology of postgraduate research students who have submitted their theses; or

(g) for any other purpose, approved by the committee, which advances the study of botany.

3. Unused income from the fund is added to the capital sum.

4.(1) The committee meets in July each year to determine whether the income of the fund is sufficient, after capitalisation of interest, to justify expenditure.

(2) In years in which the committee determines that income is sufficient to justify expenditure, it must invite applications for support from the fund from all members of the academic staff and postgraduate research students in botany.

(3) The committee may add suggestions to those submitted under (2).

(4) The committee has absolute discretion in the allocation of income from the fund.

(5) The school must be advised of each allocation from the fund at its next school meeting.

5. If at any time after the donor's death the University is no longer able to use the fund in strict accordance with his intentions, it may vary these regulations appropriately, provided that the funds are used only for the advancement of the study of botany.