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Accused University of Alabama Shooter Got Her Ph.D. at Harvard

Numerous sources (mostly feeding off reports at al.com) identify the woman suspected in today's mass shooting at the University of Alabama-Huntsville as Amy Bishop, who received her Ph.D. in genetics from Harvard five years ago.

MSNBC notes a possible motive:

According to media reports, Bishop had been denied tenure Friday morning. She apparently returned to a campus faculty meeting in the afternoon and opened fire, university officials and witnesses told NBC station WAFF-TV.

Bishop's research focused on the role of nitric oxide and other free radicals in signaling among nerve cells. Her recent publications include collaborations with Bruce Demple, a faculty member in the Department of Genetics and Complex Disease at the Harvard School of Public Health. Bishop, who joined the UAH faculty in 2004, and her husband Jim Anderson, who was also taken into custody, also had developed a portable incubator for cell cultures, and seemed to be in the process of commercializing it.

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Given the number of colleges & universities 'round these parts, there will be a lot of interest in this tragedy.

I tried to summarize some of the broader implications:
http://newworkplace.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/the-u...

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[citation needed]

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Me? Yamada? The media? Please clarify, 'coz I tried to include links all around.

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No Wikipedia lifting in my comment or linked blog post!

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The Boston Globe is reporting that she accidentally fatally shot her brother 24 years ago in Massachusetts.

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The accused in the Alabama murders shot and killed her brother back in the 80s. The family lived in Braintree -- and some charge that the case was wrongly treated as an accidental death. The district attorney who apparently let her off the hook was William Delahunt:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35372168/

Presumably coincidentally, Delahunt is currently considering retiring from Congress:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/artic...

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