Going Professorial? Alabama Biology Professor goes on …
The tenure process is pretty stressful. Getting that tenure letter several years ago felt like an 800-pound gorilla being taken off my shoulders, and has since allowed me to pursue several avenues of research that I couldn’t have focused on before. But not everyone makes it through the process. The professor population at my University is pretty eclectic with representatives from seemingly every walk of life and about every type of personality including the extremes. This appears to be the story of one of those extremes. From al.com via drudge: University of Alabama in Huntsville biology professor in custody regarding deadly shooting at faculty meeting
A biology professor is in custody in connection with three fatal shootings on the University of Alabama in Huntsville campus Friday afternoon, according to a UAH official.
Dr. Amy Bishop, a Harvard-University trained neuroscientist, was taken into custody, and her husband has been detained. They have not been charged with a crime.
According to police, three people were killed and three were wounded when the shooter opened fire during a biology faculty meeting on the third floor of the Shelby Center for Science and Technology. The three injured people are being treated at Huntsville Hospital.
In June 2006, The Times published a story involving Bishop, biology professor and her husband, Jim Anderson, chief science officer of Cherokee Labsystems in Huntsville.
Bishop is quoted in the story as co-inventor of “InQ,” a new cell growth incubator which promised to cut the costs, size and maintenance involved in the mechanics of cell generation.
The story doesn’t go into motives. That can be found over at WAFF via HotAir: Police: female faculty member kills three on UA-Huntsville campus. My guess is she knew what was coming and showed up packing heat to exact revenge:
The shooting happened in the Shelby Center, a math and science classroom building.
Authorities said a female faculty member during a Biology faculty meeting learned she would not receive tenure. She then pulled out a gun and started shooting.
Tenure in this case refers to a senior academic’s contractual right not to have their position terminated without just cause.
SOunds like premeditation to me. I tried searching, but came up empty in finding out of teh University is one of those “gun-free school zones.”
UPDATE: More at memeorandum
UPDATE #2: Linked at Kitsch/Posh, which has these updates:
Amy Bishop’s publications can be found on PubMed. [NIH] Notice that J. Anderson is a coauthor on many.
The UAH President’s blog praises Dr. Bishop: [Dave's Blog, UAH]
And Amy Bishop talked about balancing family life and academic career? [Harvard Medical School]
Also here:
And A. Bishop’s Rate my professor profile [RateMyProfessor]
And what does a “Delegate” do? [Harvard Marshal's Office]
And in 2003 Harvard School of Public Health had a retreat where she presented a poster [HSPH]
And the status of a pending patent by J. Anderson [USPTO]
Turns out this patent is “CellDrive” which is also mentioned in that business-plan competition [Launchpad] that all the media reports are mentioning in relation to Amy. Well, looks like this particular has been rejected once since then…
Apparently Dick Reeves is the chairman of the company, Prodigy Biosystems, because his little group of investors, Huntsville Angel Network invested over a million into Prodigy.
Archive.org does its job. [archive.org]
Can’t forget to direct you to the Godlike Productions thread about this whole deal. [Godlike Productions]
UPDATE #3: From Instapundit:
HAPPILY, THIS IS RARE. Especially as I have a tenure meeting next week. Alabama Prof Kills Three at Faculty Meeting After Being Denied Tenure. “Amy Bishop, a biology professor at the University of Alabama-Huntsville, allegedly shot and killed two biology professors and a staff person during a faculty meeting this afternoon in which she learned she was denied tenure.” Of course, maybe this is why we always have the Dean deliver the good or bad news after the meeting has ended . . . .
UPDATE: From Ratemyprofessors.com: “This class was great. Bishop makes the class interesting by talking about her research and her friends research. That speaker she had for class was hard to understand but smart. She expects alot and you need to come to every class and study. She is hot but she tries to hide it.And she is a socalist but she only talks about it after class.”
Reader George Berryman writes: “I’m guessing the ’she’s a socialist’ part won’t get talked about much in the MSM. But if she had been a conservative it’d lead every evening news cast for two months.”
Indeed.
Source: http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2010/02/going-professorial-alabama-biology.html
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