Three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville were shot to death, and three other people were seriously wounded, at a biology faculty meeting on Friday afternoon, university officials said.
The Huntsville Times, quoting university officials, reported that a biology professor was being held in the shooting, the police said. WAFF, the NBC affiliate in Huntsville, quoted university officials as saying the professor began shooting after learning at the faculty meeting that she was being denied tenure.
The newspaper identified the professor as Amy Bishop, a Harvard-educated neuroscientist. According to a 2006 profile in the newspaper, Dr. Bishop invented a portable cell growth incubator with her husband, Jim Anderson. Police officials said that Mr. Anderson was being detained, but they did not call him a suspect.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/us/13alabama.html
