Nerd News: Follow-Up on Alabama Tenure-Denial Shooting

More information is emerging about yesterday's shooting rampage at a biology faculty meeting at the University of Alabama in Huntville. Inside Higher Ed has a writeup about Amy Bishop, the biology professor who went postal. Note this too:

The three professors who were fatally shot at a meeting of the biology faculty were Gopi K. Podila, chairman of the biology department, and Maria Ragland Davis and Adriel Johnson, both associate professors in the department.

Joseph Leahy, an associate biology professor, and Stephanie Monticciolo, a staff member in the biology department. were wounded and in critical condition as of Saturday morning, and Luis Rogelio Cruz-Vera, an assistant professor of biology, was wounded but released from the hospital Saturday.

Yikes. Here is the news at the UAH website. The shooter, 42-year-old Amy Bishop, was a Harvard-educated researcher.