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- Trinity creates summer biology research program - San Antonio Business Journal
- Biology Under the Influence - Monthly Review
- Judge sends Alabama prof's shooting case to grand jury - CNN
| Trinity creates summer biology research program - San Antonio Business Journal Posted: 23 Mar 2010 09:15 AM PDT Trinity University biology students won't be flippin' burgers this summer. Thanks to a $300,000 gift from Trinity board member Carey Joullian, undergraduate biology students will be able to conduct research with faculty during the summer. The gift will establish an endowment for the Biology Summer Undergraduate Research Fund. Joullian is president and CEO of Mustang Fuel Corp. and a Trinity grad. He worked with David Ribble, professor and chairman of the biology department, to develop a summer program that was unique to Trinity and involved undergraduate research. Joullian and Ribble attended Trinity at the same time and are friends. "My family set up a similar fund for the history department many years ago and I wanted to replicate it," Joullian says. The fund will support research fellowships for Trinity students working with biology faculty. The fund also can be used to conduct research at field locations, for travel to scientific meetings or as a stipend to help students. "Hands-on research is the best way to learn science, and the experience gained from such research is invaluable in the pursuit of careers in the biological sciences. Science is a collaborative venture and undergraduate students are our colleagues," Ribble says. "It costs money to conduct research, and these funds from Carey, along with other external grants, will enable us to continue to work with students." Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | |
| Biology Under the Influence - Monthly Review Posted: 23 Mar 2010 07:42 AM PDT
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| Judge sends Alabama prof's shooting case to grand jury - CNN Posted: 23 Mar 2010 08:46 AM PDT Huntsville, Alabama (CNN) -- A judge has found enough evidence to send the capital murder case against former university professor Amy Bishop to the grand jury. District Judge Ruth Ann Hall found after a brief hearing Tuesday that there is probable cause that Amy Bishop committed the crimes she is accused of -- capital murder and attempted murder. Bishop, a Harvard-trained geneticist, is accused of gunning down her colleagues at a February 12 faculty meeting on the University of Alabama campus in Huntsville. Madison County District Attorney Robert L. Broussard said the investigation is ongoing and estimates that his office will be able to present the case to a grand jury in about six months. Dressed in a red jail jumpsuit, her wrists and ankles bound in chains, Bishop listened impassively to the testimony, occasionally shifting her glance from the investigator to the prosecutor. In an interview with police shortly after she was apprehended on campus, Bishop denied she attended the meeting at which six faculty members were shot. Three were killed and three survived. "I wasn't there. It wasn't me," she told police, according to testimony from Huntsville police homicide investigator Charlie Gray. He was the only witness called during the hearing, which lasted a half-hour. "'I wasn't there' -- that kept being the repeated theme," Gray testified. "Every time we asked her a question about the shooting she would say, 'No way, no way. I wasn't there. It wasn't me.'" The prosecutor's questions focused on the timeline of events and evidence discovered at the scene. A brief line of inquiry by defense lawyer Barry Abston focused on Bishop's state of mind when she gave the statement. In statements to the media before Hall issued a gag order in the case, Bishop's lawyers have indicated that the case will focus on her state of mind when she carried out the shootings. Her denials aside, the biology professor appeared "calm" and "intelligent" during the interview, agreeing to waive her Miranda rights and generally giving the impression that she understood what was going on, Gray testified. Gray noted that Bishop repeatedly challenged the reason she was being questioned. "She wanted to know why she was there. She said she had a meeting at 4:30 to write a grant," Gray said. "She had to leave to make that meeting. She denied anything about the incident at all." Witnesses told police that Bishop stood up about 50 minutes into a biology faculty meeting and opened fire, shooting three people sitting closest to her in the head, Gray testified. They died at the scene. She shot two others in the head and another in the collarbone before fleeing the room, the investigator testified. A 911 call came in at approximately 3:57 p.m. and Huntsville Police apprehended Bishop at 4:09 at the northwest corner of the building, the Shelby Center for Science and Technology. One of two witnesses who saw her in the hallway after the shooting told police that Bishop asked to borrow his phone, Gray said. She used it to call a number later identified as belonging to her husband. Police also found a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol stuffed into a trash can in the second-floor women's bathroom underneath tissues and a women's jacket that had traces of the victims' blood on it, Gray said. The jacket was later identified as belonging to Bishop, he said. The gun had a 15-round magazine that contained seven live rounds and two jammed rounds, he said. In the meeting room where the shootings occurred, police also found a black satchel belonging to Bishop with another 15-round magazine. Under Alabama law, the case now will go to a grand jury. The university identified the dead as Gopi Podila, chairman of the biological sciences department; Maria Davis, associate professor of biology; and Adriel Johnson, associate professor of biology. Three other people were wounded. In the wake of the shootings, information came to light about Bishop's previous run-ins with the law. She faced criminal charges after an altercation at a Massachusetts restaurant nearly eight years ago, police said. The police report says Bishop became furious that there was no booster seat available for her child, began screaming at the woman who had taken the last one and struck her in the head. Authorities in Bishop's hometown of Braintree, Massachusetts, are also looking into the shooting death of her brother, Seth, in 1986. Bishop, then 20, said she accidentally shot her brother in the family's kitchen as she was trying to unload a shotgun, according to police reports. The district attorney at the time regarded the death as accidental and declined to press charges. However, after the school shootings, the current district attorney in Braintree ordered a judge's inquest to re-examine the incident and determine whether charges are warranted. In addition, The Boston Globe has also reported that Bishop and her husband, Jim Anderson, were questioned in the 1993 attempted mail bombing of a Harvard Medical School professor. Under Alabama law, Bishop could face the death penalty if she is convicted of capital murder. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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