Columbia’s dismissal of prominent neuroscientist prompts demand for answers
Columbia University students and postdoctoral fellows are urging administrators to specify why they closed a prominent neuroscientist's lab and ended his administrative positions.
Dozens of current and former students and postdoctoral fellows at Columbia University are urging administrators to specify why the school announced last week that it would close the lab of prominent neuroscientist Thomas Jessell and end his administrative positions.
Columbia has declined to offer any explanation for Jessell’s removal beyond a terse statement that said an investigation had “revealed serious violations of University policies and values governing the behavior of faculty members in an academic environment.” That statement, current and former students say in an , has
