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02-12-2010, 05:35 PM
* I'm a 2004 graduate of the University of Alabama-Huntsville and to say what happened today is awful. I'm a Huntsville native and love my hometown. Something like this you will never imagine happening in a city like Huntsville.
My prayers and thoughts are with those that lost their lives and for my beloved university and friends who graduated from there (one of my friends was actually on the first floor when the shooting happened), we hope the victims may rest in peace.
3 dead, 3 wounded in university shooting (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35372168/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/)
NBC, msnbc.com and news services
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - A biology professor was in custody Friday after a shooting at the University of Alabama-Huntsville campus that left three people dead and three others wounded, according to police and media reports.
Amy Bishop, a Harvard University-trained neuroscientist who was reportedly upset over being denied tenure, was taken into custody, and her husband was detained, local media reported, citing police and university sources and witnesses.
Police said someone opened fire during a faculty meeting Friday afternoon inside the Shelby Center, a 200,000-square-foot science building.
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Three faculty members were killed and at least three other people were injured. Two men were in critical condition at a Huntsville hospital and a woman was in stable condition, WHNT-TV reported.
According to media reports, Bishop had been denied tenure Friday morning. She apparently returned to a campus faculty meeting in the afternoon and opened fire, university officials and witnesses told NBC station WAFF-TV.
Screams heard
Erin Johnson, a sophomore and a student aide, told the Huntsville Times there was a biology faculty meeting under way when she heard screams coming from the room.
Gina Hammond, a UAH student, told WAFF that she lobbied the University of Alabama trustees to allow students with gun permits to carry their weapons on campus. She was turned down.
“I’m scared to go back to school,” Hammond said. “However, if they were to allow me to carry my permanent pistol on campus, I would not be as scared.
“... I’m sorry that nobody in that room had a permanent pistol to save at least one person’s life,” Hammond said.
Suspect involved with cell incubator
In June 2006, The Huntsville Times published a story involving Bishop and her husband, Jim Anderson, chief science officer of Cherokee Labsystems in Huntsville.
Together, the two designed a portable cell incubator that eliminates many of the problems with cultivating tissues in the fragile environment of the Petri dish, according to the article.
"It's great to actually see it hit the market, and the sooner the better," Bishop said in the story. "My colleagues think it will change the face of tissue culture. It will allow us, as researchers, to not live in the lab and control our tissue culture conditions, including the sensitive cultures including those like adult stem cells.
"The conditions to differentiate those have to be exact, and the incubator will help that."
Tired of applying 1920s science to the rapidly advancing work of biotechnology, Bishop approached her husband ... about inventing a portable cell incubator. Together, she and Anderson designed a sealed, self-contained cell incubation system that is mobile and eliminates many of the problems with cultivating tissues in the fragile environment of the petri dish.
Previous school shooting
It's the second shooting in a week on an area campus. Last Friday, a 14-year-old student was killed in a middle school hallway in nearby Madison, allegedly by a fellow student.
"This town is unaccustomed to shootings and multiple deaths," university spokesman Ray Garner said at a news conference.
The Huntsville campus has about 7,500 students in northern Alabama, not far from the Tennessee line. The city is home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
Female school shooters are rare. The Secret Service studied 41 attackers in 37 school shooting incidents. Of those, all were male.
But there have been female school shooters. For example, in February 2008 a female student shot and killed two classmates and then herself at Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge.
My prayers and thoughts are with those that lost their lives and for my beloved university and friends who graduated from there (one of my friends was actually on the first floor when the shooting happened), we hope the victims may rest in peace.
3 dead, 3 wounded in university shooting (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35372168/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/)
NBC, msnbc.com and news services
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - A biology professor was in custody Friday after a shooting at the University of Alabama-Huntsville campus that left three people dead and three others wounded, according to police and media reports.
Amy Bishop, a Harvard University-trained neuroscientist who was reportedly upset over being denied tenure, was taken into custody, and her husband was detained, local media reported, citing police and university sources and witnesses.
Police said someone opened fire during a faculty meeting Friday afternoon inside the Shelby Center, a 200,000-square-foot science building.
Story continues below ↓advertisement | your ad here
Three faculty members were killed and at least three other people were injured. Two men were in critical condition at a Huntsville hospital and a woman was in stable condition, WHNT-TV reported.
According to media reports, Bishop had been denied tenure Friday morning. She apparently returned to a campus faculty meeting in the afternoon and opened fire, university officials and witnesses told NBC station WAFF-TV.
Screams heard
Erin Johnson, a sophomore and a student aide, told the Huntsville Times there was a biology faculty meeting under way when she heard screams coming from the room.
Gina Hammond, a UAH student, told WAFF that she lobbied the University of Alabama trustees to allow students with gun permits to carry their weapons on campus. She was turned down.
“I’m scared to go back to school,” Hammond said. “However, if they were to allow me to carry my permanent pistol on campus, I would not be as scared.
“... I’m sorry that nobody in that room had a permanent pistol to save at least one person’s life,” Hammond said.
Suspect involved with cell incubator
In June 2006, The Huntsville Times published a story involving Bishop and her husband, Jim Anderson, chief science officer of Cherokee Labsystems in Huntsville.
Together, the two designed a portable cell incubator that eliminates many of the problems with cultivating tissues in the fragile environment of the Petri dish, according to the article.
"It's great to actually see it hit the market, and the sooner the better," Bishop said in the story. "My colleagues think it will change the face of tissue culture. It will allow us, as researchers, to not live in the lab and control our tissue culture conditions, including the sensitive cultures including those like adult stem cells.
"The conditions to differentiate those have to be exact, and the incubator will help that."
Tired of applying 1920s science to the rapidly advancing work of biotechnology, Bishop approached her husband ... about inventing a portable cell incubator. Together, she and Anderson designed a sealed, self-contained cell incubation system that is mobile and eliminates many of the problems with cultivating tissues in the fragile environment of the petri dish.
Previous school shooting
It's the second shooting in a week on an area campus. Last Friday, a 14-year-old student was killed in a middle school hallway in nearby Madison, allegedly by a fellow student.
"This town is unaccustomed to shootings and multiple deaths," university spokesman Ray Garner said at a news conference.
The Huntsville campus has about 7,500 students in northern Alabama, not far from the Tennessee line. The city is home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
Female school shooters are rare. The Secret Service studied 41 attackers in 37 school shooting incidents. Of those, all were male.
But there have been female school shooters. For example, in February 2008 a female student shot and killed two classmates and then herself at Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge.