{"id":1194,"date":"2006-07-17T15:24:14","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T23:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2006\/07\/mit-star-accused-by-11-colleagues\/"},"modified":"2006-07-17T15:24:14","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T23:24:14","slug":"mit-star-accused-by-11-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2006\/07\/mit-star-accused-by-11-colleagues\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT star accused by 11 colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Boston Globe<\/i>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2006\/07\/15\/mit_star_accused_by_11_colleagues\/\">MIT star accused by 11 colleagues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eleven MIT professors have accused a powerful colleague, a Nobel laureate, of interfering with the university&#8217;s efforts to hire a rising female star in neuroscience.<\/p>\n<p>The professors, in a letter to MIT&#8217;s president, Susan Hockfield , accuse professor Susumu Tonegawa of intimidating Alla Karpova , &#8220;a brilliant young scientist,&#8221; saying that he would not mentor, interact, or collaborate with her if she took the job and that members of his research group would not work with her.<\/p>\n<p>The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, they wrote in their June 30 letter, &#8220;allowed a senior faculty member with great power and financial resources to behave in an uncivil, uncollegial, and possibly unethical manner toward a talented young scientist who deserves to be welcomed at MIT.&#8221; They also wrote that because of Tonegawa&#8217;s opposition, several other senior faculty members cautioned Karpova not to come to MIT.<\/p>\n<p>She has since declined the job offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Globe: MIT star accused by 11 colleagues Eleven MIT professors have accused a powerful colleague, a Nobel laureate, of interfering with the university&#8217;s efforts to hire a rising female star in neuroscience. The professors, in a letter to MIT&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2006\/07\/mit-star-accused-by-11-colleagues\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}