The Vice-Chancellor (left) with Ekhard and Lisa Salje and Sir Martin Harris
Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, performed his first building-opening since his installation as the 345th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, when he visited Clare Hall on Friday. The Salje Building, named after the former President of the College Professor Ekhard Salje and his wife, Lisa Salje, consists of thirteen student rooms and five flats for Visiting Fellows. Professor Ekhard Salje, former President of Clare Hall, developed over his term as President close links and partnerships with a number of prestigious universities in Korea, China and Japan, who between them have helped to fund the new building. Sir Martin Harris, the current President, said at the opening: "What is now the Salje Building began as a gleam in Ekhard's eye, a plan to further enhance the range of quality of Visiting Fellows who make Clare Hall so special. "The idea of asking a number of universities, above all in East Asia, to invest in a new building as the necessary infrastructure to enable us to broaden still further our Visiting Fellow programme, proved in the end to be a real winner, and here we are today, with a building built and paid for, as well as a splendid new meeting room, because of his vision and commitment. Ekhard, the College will always be in your debt." In the next few years Clare Hall plans to develop a series of study and research programmes, with enhanced interaction between the College's Fellows, Visiting Fellows and students in a small number of carefully-chosen inter-disciplinary subject areas, and also plans to welcome graduate students from partner universities to its developing summer school programme.
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