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Dr. Amy Bishop, Alleged Assailant in University of Alabama Huntsville Shooting
Media sources in Huntsville, Alabama report that the faculty shooter who opened fire during a biology dept. meeting today was Dr. Amy Bishop, who had learned she would not receive tenure. Bishop allegedly shot and killed 3 fellow faculty members and wounded as many as 6 others, one critically.Amy Bishop received her Ph.D. in Genetics from Harvard and had previously been an instructor of medicine at the Ivy League university. According to AL.com's Breaking News' blog, Amy Bishop and her husband, Jim Anderson, were co-inventors of InQ, a new cell growth incubator which promised to cut the costs, size and maintenance involved in the mechanics of cell generation' An older version of Bishop's UAH Biology Dept. web page listed her interests in the way neurons utilize free radicals, in particular nitrous oxide, and how understanding the process could eventually help treat injuries to the central nervous system. In the past, Bishop had taught a number of courses at UAH in anatomy and physiology as well as an introduction to neuroscience. Professors going nuts and opening fire are the most rare kind of campus shooter. It does happen, though. Most recently: George Zinkhan, a well-regarded marketing professor at the University of Georgia in Athens (UGA), lost his damned mind and opened fire on his estranged wife and two others, killing all 3. Zinkhan was later found dead in a patch of woods outside Athens. He'd meticulously planned his suicide, setting it up so that he virtually buried himself before pulling the trigger. If Dr. Amy Bishop did go nuts and try to kill her colleagues today as alleged, it wouldn't be the first time a former Harvard professor has gone so dramatically, violently bananas, either. Posted by: Besoeker 2010-02-13 |
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