DoYouEverWonder wrote:Is being a psychopath a requirement for getting into Harvard?
No. I was rejected.
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by JackRiddler » Sat Feb 13, 2010 9:05 pm
DoYouEverWonder wrote:Is being a psychopath a requirement for getting into Harvard?
by dbcooper41 » Sat Feb 13, 2010 9:32 pm
"Several experts said campus shootings commonly occur because the shooter has some kind of festering grievance that university officials haven't addressed, and the granting of tenure can be a polarizing and politicized process for many academics.
"Universities tend to string it out without resolution, tolerate too much and to have a cumbersome decision process that endangers the comfort of many and the safety of some," said Dr. Park Dietz, who is president of Threat Assessment Group Inc., a Newport Beach, Calif.-based violence prevention firm."
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Park Elliott Dietz (born 1948) is a controversial forensic psychiatrist and criminologist who was
educated at Cornell and Johns Hopkins (M.D., 1975; M.P.H., 1975; Ph.D. (Sociology), 1984. Dietz later served as a resident and fellow in forensic psychiatry at University of Pennsylvania, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and a professor of behavioral medicine and psychiatry, and law at the University of Virginia. He has published widely in the fields of criminology and forensic psychiatry. He currently serves as a clinical professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the UCLA School of Medicine.
Dr. Dietz is best known for his forensic consulting on behalf of state and federal prosecutors as well as his work on the television series Law & Order. His most notable cases being those of Jeffrey Dahmer, John Hinckley, Andrea Yates, Deanna Laney, Susan Smith, Cary Stayner, Polly Klaas, the Menendez Brothers (retrial), John duPont, The Unabomber, the New York Zodiac, and the Prom Mom Case. He also interviewed Mafia contract killer Richard Kuklinski Also known as "The Ice Man", because he would freeze the corpses of some of his victims in a big industrial freezer, to disguise the time of death.When Anita Hill was scheduled to testify before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee against the confirmation of Clarence Thomas as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in October 1991 concerning her allegations of sexual harassment, Park Dietz was asked by Senator John Danforth to help the Republican committee members as they prepared their response. Dietz spent a weekend in Danforth's office providing detailed information about erotomania. His description of the disorder became the basis for aggressive questioning of Hill and others, which appeared to focus on eliciting evidence that she had the disorder. Some questioned the ethics of Dietz' involvement, but Dietz defended his role as strictly the provision of information.[1]
In 1993, Dietz was invited to assist the FBI in the standoff with the Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas. Dietz profiled David Koresh, the group's leader, as antisocial and narcissistic. He told the FBI, "I do not believe negotiating in good faith will resolve the situation," and predicted that Koresh would "continue to make sexual use of any children who remain inside." Although he also gave advice on psychological approaches which might encourage Koresh to believe that negotiators were acting in good faith, his prediction that Koresh was incapable of compromise was a crucial element in the decision of the FBI to storm the compound.[2] 75 died, 50 adults and 25 children under the age of 15. Dietz returned home to watch the tragedy unfold on TV.[2].
Dr. Dietz's reputation was tarnished after it was revealed that he gave misleading testimony in the Andrea Yates trial. The First Texas Court of Appeals reversed Yates's conviction based on Dietz's role, writing: "We conclude that there is a reasonable likelihood that Dr. Dietz's false testimony could have affected the judgment of the jury...." [3] Yates was ultimately found not guilty by reason of insanity in her court-ordered retrial.[4]
[edit] References
^ "Psychiatry's Use in Thomas Battle Raises Ethics Issue," The New York Times, Oct. 20, 1991.
^ Tabor, James; Gallagher, Eugene. Why Waco?
^ Andrea Pia Yates v. Texas, Ct. App. 1st Dist. (2005)
^ Jury:Yates not guilty by reason of insanity
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by geogeo » Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:09 pm
by JackRiddler » Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:26 pm
Dr. Amy Bishop
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Research Areas
Molecular Biology of Oxidative Stress
Neurobiology
Neuroengineering
Induced Adaptive Resistance
Research Description
Molecular Biology of Oxidative Stress
I have had a longstanding interest in the free radical gas, nitric oxide (NO), and its role in the central nervous system (CNS). Nitric oxide, originally discovered as an environmental pollutant, is synthesized at physiological levels by many mammalian cells and is utilized for a variety of functions such as signal transduction for cell signaling, for cellular differentiation, and for neurotransmission in learning and memory. At a high flux rate, such as that released by immune cells, or when released out of context in a stressed environment, it has been established that NO is toxic. NO-mediated damage is implicated in the cell death of motor neurons and their support cells, oligodendrocytes, during CNS injury (stroke or spinal transection) and during degenerative disease, such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), and Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
There are many proposed mechanisms and cellular targets of NO damage with the major target being protein. High flux NO can disrupt heme-containing proteins and cause them to release heme into the intracellular environment. This has been proposed to result in iron-mediated generation of reactive nitrogen species, namely peroxynitrite. NO, when combined with other oxidants in the cell, forms peroxynitrite which goes on to nitrate tyrosine residues, thereby disrupting protein structure and function. Nitrotyrosine (3NY) positive aggregates are seen in spinal injury and are found in the motor neurons of ALS patients and in the plaques seen in MS patients. Due to my research, and that of others, nitrotyrosine (3NY) is now regarded as a quantifiable marker for NO-mediated damage in the CNS.
Induced Adaptive Resistance
Nitric oxide released at physiological levels plays a variety of beneficial roles, while at high doses or during pathological circumstances NO becomes toxic. I have proposed that normal cellular resistance mechanisms are defective, in the case of CNS disease, or overwhelmed, in the case of CNS injury. Is it possible that these normal resistance mechanisms can be “primed” against oxidative insult by a pretreatment dose of a lower concentration of that oxidant? Specifically, I have asked if a low dose of NO can prepare a cell for subsequent toxic challenge of NO or other oxidants. In fact, I have discovered that cells pretreated with low levels of NO become resistant to toxic levels of NO and other oxidants. This phenomenon, Induced Adaptive Resistance (IAR), is dependent on hemoxygenase1 (HO1), a heme-metabolizing enzyme.
Neuroengineering
My laboratory’s goal will be to continue in our effort to develop a neural computer, the Neuristor™, using living neurons. This computer will exploit all of the advantages of neurons. Specifically, neurons rich with the nitric oxide (NO) dependent learning receptor, N Methyl D Aspartate receptor (NMDAR), will be utilized. These have previously been studied in the context of induced adaptive resistance to NO (IAR). For the Neuristor™ we will take advantage of the IAR phenomena since it has been demonstrated that IAR neurons express more learning and memory receptors (NMDAR) as well as increased neurite outgrowth. The neurons that we are currently using are mammalian motor neurons. We are exploring the possibility of using neurons derived from adult stem cells, and from bony fishes provided by Bruce Stallsmith Ph.D. This laboratory has created a portable cell culture incubator, the Cell Drive™ that is an ideal support structure for the Neuristor™.
Most Recent Publications
Anderson, L. B., Anderson P. B., Anderson T. B., Bishop A., Anderson J., Effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors on motor neuron survival (2009) International Journal of General Medicine. In press
Bishop A., Green-Hobbs K., Eguchi A., Pennie C., Anderson J.E., Estévez A. Differential sensitivity of oligodendrocytes and motor neurons to reactive nitrogen species: a new paradigm for the etiology of Multiple Sclerosis (2009). Journal of Neurochemistry. (109) 93-104.
Bishop A, Gooch R, Green-Hobbs K, Cashman N. R., Demple B., Anderson J. E., Estévez A.,. Mitigation of nitrotyrosine formation in motor neurons adapted to nitrooxidative stress. (2009) Journal of Neurochemistry. (109) 74-84.
Bishop A., Gooch R., Anderson J., Induced Adaptive Resistance to Nitrooxidative Stress in the CNS: Therapeutic Implications (2006) Current Medicinal Chemistry - Central Nervous System Agents 6(4).
Bishop A. & Anderson J. (2005). NO signaling in the CNS: From the Physiological to the Pathological. TOXICOLOGY (208):193-205.
Amy Bishop, Shaw Fung-Yet, Mark J. Perrella, Arthur M. Lee, Neil R. Cashman & Bruce Demple (2004) A key role for heme oxygenase-1 in nitric oxide resistance in murine motor neurons and glia. BBRC 325:3-9.
Amy Bishop, Neil R. Cashman. (2003) Induced adaptive resistance to oxidative stress in the CNS: Discussion of possible mechanisms and their therapeutic potential. Current Drug Metabolism 4(2) 171-184.
Complete List of Publications
Courses Taught at UAH
BYS 313: Anatomy & Physiology 1
BYS 314: Anatomy & Physiology 2
BYS 400/600: Introduction to Neuroscience
Special Topics 691: Mechanisms of resistance to oxidative stress in the CNS
Special Topics 692: Research
by Nordic » Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:46 pm
Officer Ronald Solimini informed me that he wrote the report and said that I wouldn’t find it as it has been missing from the files for over 20 years. He said that former Police Chief Edward Flynn had looked for the report and that it was missing. He believes this was in 1988.”
Officer Solimini recalled the incident as follows: He said he remembers that Ms. Bishop fired a round from a pump action shotgun into the wall of her bedroom. She had a fight with her brother and shot him, which caused his death. She fired a third round from the shotgun into the ceiling as she exited the home. She fled down the street with the shotgun in her hand. At one point she allegedly pointed the shotgun at a motor vehicle in an attempt to get the driver to stop. Officer Solimini found her behind a business on Washington Street. Officer Timothy Murphy was able to take control of the suspect at gunpoint and seized the shotgun. Ms. Bishop was subsequently handcuffed and transported to the police station under arrest.”
by JackRiddler » Sat Feb 13, 2010 11:38 pm
February 14, 2010
A Previous Shooting Death at the Hand of Alabama Suspect
By SHAILA DEWAN and LIZ ROBBINS
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The neurobiologist accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, on Friday fatally shot her brother in 1986 in suburban Boston, and the police there are now questioning whether they mishandled that case when they let her go without filing charges.
Early Saturday, the police in Huntsville charged the neurobiologist, Amy Bishop, who they said was 45, with capital murder in the shootings Friday during a faculty meeting that also left three people wounded. Ms. Bishop, who appeared to have had a promising future in the biotechnology business, had recently been told she would not be granted tenure, university officials said.
On Saturday afternoon, the police in Braintree, Mass., announced that Ms. Bishop had fatally wounded her brother, Seth Bishop, 24 years ago in an argument in their home, which The Boston Globe first reported on its Web site. The police were considering reopening the case, in which Ms. Bishop was not charged and the case records were no longer available, said Paul Frazier, the Braintree police chief.
“The release of Ms. Bishop did not sit well with the police officers,” Chief Frazier said in a statement, “and I can assure you that this would not happen in this day and age.” He told reporters at a news conference on Saturday that the original account describing the shooting as an accident had been inaccurate and, The Globe said, that while he was reluctant to use the word “cover-up,” it did not “look good” that the detailed records of the case have been missing since 1988.
A 1987 state police report, released Saturday by the Norfolk County district attorney’s office, said that Ms. Bishop had tried to teach herself to use the family’s shotgun after a break-in occurred at their home. She said she loaded the gun but could not unload it and asked her brother for help, in their mother’s presence. She said the gun accidentally went off, striking her brother. Because her mother, Judith Bishop, confirmed this account, the report said, the death was ruled accidental.
But Chief Frazier said in his statement that the officer on duty, Ronald Solimini, remembered that Ms. Bishop had shot and killed her brother after an argument. She fired another round from the shotgun into the ceiling as she left the home, the officer said, and fled down the street with the shotgun. The officer remembered her pointing the shotgun at a motor vehicle in an attempt to get the driver to stop, the chief said.
Another officer, Timothy Murphy, seized the shotgun, and Ms. Bishop was handcuffed and transported to the police station under arrest, Chief Frazier said.
He said that he spoke with the person who was the booking officer at the time, who recalled getting a call “he believes was from then Police Chief John Polio or possibly from a captain on Chief Polio’s behalf” to stop the process. Ms. Bishop was released from police custody, and the two left the police station by a rear exit, Chief Frazier said.
But Mr. Polio, 87, reached at home on Saturday, called even the suggestion of a cover-up laughable and said that the case had been handled lawfully. He said he remembered there being a shooting and recalled that Ms. Bishop and her brother had been “horsing around.”
“Everything was done that should have been done under the circumstances,” Mr. Polio said in a phone interview. “She was questioned, and then turned over to her mother. The determination was made that we were going to turn the inquiry over to the district attorney.”
The district attorney at the time was Bill Delahunt, who is now a Democratic congressman from Massachusetts. Mr. Delahunt was traveling in Israel and could not be reached.
Ms. Bishop, a grant-winning scientist and a mother of four, is now charged with murder. If convicted, she would be eligible for the death penalty in Alabama.
The shootings on the university campus opened a window into the pressure-cooker world of biotechnology start-ups, where scientists often depend on their association with academia for a leg up. Ms. Bishop was part of a start-up that had won an early round of financing in a highly competitive environment, but people who knew her said she had learned shortly before the shooting that she had been denied tenure at the university.
On Friday, Ms. Bishop presided over her regular anatomy and neurosciences class before going to an afternoon faculty meeting on the third floor of the Shelby Center for Science and Technology.
There she sat quietly for about 30 or 40 minutes, said one faculty member who had spoken to some of the dozen people who were in the room. Then Ms. Bishop pulled out a 9-millimeter handgun and began shooting, firing several rounds, the police said. At least one person in the room tried to stop Ms. Bishop and prevent further bloodshed, said Sgt. Mark Roberts of the Huntsville Police Department.
Ms. Bishop stopped shooting when the gun either jammed or ran out of ammunition, the faculty member said.
After Ms. Bishop left the room, the police said, she dumped the gun — for which she did not have a permit — in a second-floor bathroom. The people still in the conference room barred the door, fearing she would return, the faculty member said.
Ms. Bishop was arrested outside the building minutes later, Sergeant Roberts said at a morning news conference on Saturday.
The 911 call came at 4:10 p.m., the authorities said. Few students were in the building, and none were involved in the shooting, said Ray Garner, a university spokesman. At the time, Ms. Bishop’s husband, James Anderson, was across the street from the campus, where he worked at the start-up company, Prodigy Biosystems, said Dick Reeves, the company chairman. He left to pick up his wife, apparently having no idea what had happened, Mr. Reeves said.
Officials said the dead were all biology professors: G. K. Podila, the department’s chairman, who is a native of India, according to a family friend who answered the phone at his house; Maria Ragland Davis; and Adriel D. Johnson Sr. Two other biology professors, Luis Rogelio Cruz-Vera and Joseph G. Leahy, as well as a professor’s assistant, Stephanie Monticciolo, were at Huntsville Hospital. Mr. Cruz-Vera was in fair condition; the others were in critical condition.
Mr. Garner said Ms. Bishop, who arrived in the 2003-2004 academic year, was first told last spring that she had been denied tenure. If a tenure-track professor is not granted tenure after six years, the university will no longer employ them, said Ray Garner, a spokesman for the university. This would have been the final semester of Ms. Bishop’s sixth year.
The university does have an appeals process, and people who knew Ms. Bishop said she had appealed the decision.
Ms. Bishop may have had academic problems, but her business prospects seemed bright. She had developed a new approach to treating Lou Gehrig’s disease, which a company had licensed for development. And she and her husband, a computer engineer with a biology degree, had invented an automated system for incubating cells that investors said would be a vast improvement over the petri dish. The system was to be marketed by Prodigy Biosystems, which raised $1.2 million in capital financing.
“From the way it looked to us, looking from the outside, she’s had success,” said Krishnan Chittur, a chemical engineering professor. “I’ve been here longer than she has, and she’s had more success raising money than I’ve had.”
The tenure decision would not have affected Ms. Bishop’s standing at Prodigy, where she sits on the board, but it would have lowered her status among her peers and deprived her of a laboratory and institutional support for further research, Mr. Reeves said, adding that she had already begun to look for another job.
Mr. Chittur said Ms. Bishop was a respected scientist who nevertheless had trouble getting along with colleagues. As members of the biotechnology program, students have to pass core classes in biology, chemistry and chemical engineering. But Ms. Bishop became convinced, he said, that the chemical engineering professors were trying to keep biology students from succeeding by making the classes too difficult.
“It was one of those things that ultimately became irrational with her, in my opinion,” he said.
Some students also had problems with Ms. Bishop’s teaching style, saying she simply read from the book in class but then tested them on material that she had not covered. Nursing students repeatedly complained to Dr. Podila, the department chairman, as well as to the dean, and even sent a petition, said Caitlin Phillips, a junior in the nursing program, who took two courses with Ms. Bishop in her sophomore year
Ms. Bishop was “very socially awkward with students” and never made eye contact during personal conversations, Ms. Phillips said. “We all had kind of a problem with her. She never really taught much. She just read straight from the book.”
But Ms. Bishop also defended students, saying a new policy requiring freshmen and sophomores to live on campus was too expensive and would affect diversity. She was involved in an effort to censure the university president, David B. Williams, over that and other policies, according to Richard Lieu, a Distinguished Professor of Astrophysics at the University who sits on the faculty senate.
She was not the only vocal protestor. But last month, the censure vote failed, 20 to 18.
She and Mr. Anderson had four children, ranging in age from 9 to 18, Mr. Reeves said, and frequently took them to hockey and soccer games.
He and others who knew Ms. Bishop described her as a normal person, perhaps a little quirky but no more so than most scientists. They expressed total shock at the shootings.
“She was a very outspoken person,” Mr. Reeves said, “and outspoken people don’t bottle things up.”
Shaila Dewan reported from Huntsville, Ala., and Liz Robbins from New York. Sarah Wheaton contributed from New York and Katie Zezima from Boston.
Copyright 2010 The New York Times Company
by Jeff » Sun Feb 14, 2010 10:20 am
“The release of Ms. Bishop did not sit well with the police officers,” Chief Frazier said in a statement, “and I can assure you that this would not happen in this day and age.”
Before Ms. Bishop, who was 19 at the time, could be booked the police chief back then called officers and told them to release her to her mother, Chief Frazier said. The shooting of the brother, Seth Bishop, an 18-year-old accomplished violinist, was logged that day as a “sudden death” and later considered accidental, but detailed records of the shooting have disappeared, Chief Frazier said.
“The report's gone, removed from the files,” he said.
by JackRiddler » Sun Feb 14, 2010 12:32 pm
Jeff wrote:I remember 1986. I don't recall it being that day and age.
by DoYouEverWonder » Sun Feb 14, 2010 12:49 pm
JackRiddler wrote:Jeff wrote:I remember 1986. I don't recall it being that day and age.
He is thinking approvingly on today's even greater tendency to try'em young and hang'em high.
by dbcooper41 » Sun Feb 14, 2010 2:08 pm
She then ran out of the house with the weapon. When she talked to investigators 11 days after the shooting, she told them she could only
remember hearing her mother scream and she didn't know the gunshot struck her brother until later.
The report by Trooper Brian Howe said Bishop's "highly emotional state"
immediately after the shooting made it impossible to question her. The report said she was 19 at the time. Police say she is 42 now, though the university's Web site lists her as 44.
The handling of the case prompted back-and-forth claims from the current
Braintree police chief, Frazier, and the former chief, John Polio.
Frazier said Polio instructed officers to release Amy Bishop to her mother, who had once served on a police personnel board. That move upset officers who remembered the 1986 shooting, Frazier said.
by dbcooper41 » Sun Feb 14, 2010 3:38 pm
Alleged University of Alabama-Huntsville school shooter Dr.
Amy Bishop was a Harvard-educated neurobiologist who joined
the faculty of UAH in 2003. She graduated from Harvard with
a Ph.D. in 1993.
by Canadian_watcher » Sun Feb 14, 2010 3:46 pm
My mother, for all the things she purports to forget, remembers this factoid.
by Canadian_watcher » Sun Feb 14, 2010 3:51 pm
by dbcooper41 » Sun Feb 14, 2010 4:14 pm
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UA Huntsville Dr. Amy Bishop holds active NIH R15 AREA award
Category: Academia • Research • Research funding • The American South
Posted on: February 13, 2010 12:33 PM, by Abel Pharmboy
First and foremost our condolences go to all our our colleagues at the
University of Alabama at Huntsville and others in the Huntsville science
community such as Twitter friend, @girlscientist, Dr. Chris Gunter.
As we are learning, yesterday's shooting occurred after UAH Assistant Professor
of Biology, Dr. Amy Bishop, learned that she would not be awarded tenure. My
sentiment is very much that of my colleague, DrugMonkey.
Originally appointed as a faculty member in 2003, she had previously been an Instructor at Harvard University after earning her PhD in Medical Sciences there in 1998.
We cannot assess her tenure dossier from a distance but we can tell from
ratemyprofessor.com that she had the typical profile of positive and negative
reviews and was considered a tough but helpful professor.
But to my eye, the ratings grew more critical over the last two years.
She and her husband had also developed a proprietary cell culture incubator and
software package called the InQ cell culture system that won a local $25,000
entrepreneurial prize in 2007 and launched a company called Prodigy Biosystems.
Their webpage is only a shell but local reports indicate that Prodigy had raised
$1.2 million in funding around the technology. However, the state economic
development enterprise, Alabama Launchpad, reported that the product launch had
been scheduled for the October Society of Neuroscience Annual Meeting. (scroll
down at the link as it is the last story on the page).
Dr. Bishop's publication record was modest for seven years at roughly a paper a
year (although 3 in 2009), not uncommon for a school like UAH. UAH has disabled
much of their website but this Google cache of Bishop's faculty page provides
the source of my information.
I mention this because not indicated in MSM press reports is that Dr. Bishop
held an active R15 AREA award (1R15NS057803-01A2) from NINDS of NIH that began
April 1, 2008 and ends March 31, 2011. The grant is entitled, "Elucidation of
Nitric Oxide Resistance Mechanisms in Motor Neurons," and the NIH RePORTER
record can be accessed here. Clicking on the individual tabs at this page will
reveal specific information about the various aspects of the award. For example,
the grant has already led to one published manuscript in the
Journal of Neurochemistry in April 2009.
The NIH AREA Mechanism, Area Research Enhancement Award (PAR-06-042, just
reissued as PA-10-070), is a grant mechanism intended to support institutions
that have not traditionally had a strong NIH funding base: The purpose of the Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) program is to stimulate research in educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees for a significant number of the Nation's research scientists, but that have not been major recipients of NIH support.
These AREA grants create opportunities for scientists and institutions otherwise unlikely to
participate extensively in NIH programs, to contribute to the Nation's biomedical and behavioral research effort.
Previously restricted to $150,000 in total direct costs over three years, the recent release of the program announcement indicates the mechanism now support projects at up to $300,000 over three years. It appears that Bishop's award was for $219,750 and that the fund were dispersed in total in 2008 although the project ran until 2011.
I present this information for our readers because this is the only aspect of Bishop's teaching, research, and service that has not yet appeared in the mainstream media.
It is impossible at this point to know anything about the grounds for the denial of her application for promotion and tenure.
In fact, it is largely irrelevant in light of the suffering of the university community and the families of those killed and injured in the shooting.
Our thoughts and prayers are with all touched by this tragedy.
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