Dr. Amy Bishop, Alleged Assailant in University of Alabama Huntsville Shooting
Amy Bishop
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. She joined the UAH faculty in 2003.
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.
Prior to today, when outraged trolls began leaving the expected comments on her profile, Dr. Bishop had been a modestly well-regarded professor on RateMyProfessor.com. Many comments were quite complimentary:
“Dr. Bishop is brilliant. Her research is fascinating. She will surely get the Nobel Prize. She is the best teacher I have ever had.”
“She makes class fun eventhough it is still hard.I thought because she is from Harvard she would be a snob but she isn’t.She does not give multiple choice tests so her tests are hard.”
“This prof is absolutely the bomb! Knows her stuff cold, and quick witted too. Never met anyone who knows more random knowledge. Sci-fi to quantum mechanics with a little art history thrown in the mix. Who knew? Definitely take one of her courses!”
Others were about what you’d expect to find on any professor’s profile at some point, because few instructors can please all the students, all the time:
“Dr. Bishop tries to be a good teacher, but it’s really pointless to come to class. All you do is highlight the book word for word. She is also very vague about her tests and what you should study; her answer is just study everything (which is the entire book.) She might have graduated from Harvard, but she has very little common sense.”
“She is very nice, but her class is boring. Human A&P all we do is highlight the book. She reads straight from the book. I can do that at home. There is tons of material and she doesn’t really narrow down what’s going to be on the test. However, the class wasn’t too hard though. There’s just a lot of studying.”
Basically, anyone looking for a bellwether of today’s events in Shelby Hall on the UAH campus in anonymous student comments about Amy Bishop will be disappointed.
Professors going nuts and opening fire are the most rare kind of campus shooter (sorry guys, women committing this sort of crime are even rarer still). 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.
Both Amy Bishop and her husband Jim Anderson, (who is the head of Cherokee Labsystems in Huntsville), are in custody. Jim Anderson has not been charged with a crime.
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Dr. Amy Bishop, Alleged Assailant in University of Alabama Huntsville Shooting
Amy Bishop
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. She joined the UAH faculty in 2003.
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.
Prior to today, when outraged trolls began leaving the expected comments on her profile, Dr. Bishop had been a modestly well-regarded professor on RateMyProfessor.com. Many comments were quite complimentary:
“Dr. Bishop is brilliant. Her research is fascinating. She will surely get the Nobel Prize. She is the best teacher I have ever had.”
“She makes class fun eventhough it is still hard.I thought because she is from Harvard she would be a snob but she isn’t.She does not give multiple choice tests so her tests are hard.”
“This prof is absolutely the bomb! Knows her stuff cold, and quick witted too. Never met anyone who knows more random knowledge. Sci-fi to quantum mechanics with a little art history thrown in the mix. Who knew? Definitely take one of her courses!”
Others were about what you’d expect to find on any professor’s profile at some point, because few instructors can please all the students, all the time:
“Dr. Bishop tries to be a good teacher, but it’s really pointless to come to class. All you do is highlight the book word for word. She is also very vague about her tests and what you should study; her answer is just study everything (which is the entire book.) She might have graduated from Harvard, but she has very little common sense.”
“She is very nice, but her class is boring. Human A&P all we do is highlight the book. She reads straight from the book. I can do that at home. There is tons of material and she doesn’t really narrow down what’s going to be on the test. However, the class wasn’t too hard though. There’s just a lot of studying.”
Basically, anyone looking for a bellwether of today’s events in Shelby Hall on the UAH campus in anonymous student comments about Amy Bishop will be disappointed.
Professors going nuts and opening fire are the most rare kind of campus shooter (sorry guys, women committing this sort of crime are even rarer still). 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.
Both Amy Bishop and her husband Jim Anderson, (who is the head of Cherokee Labsystems in Huntsville), are in custody. Jim Anderson has not been charged with a crime.
[al.com]