Kitsch/Posh

NBC Channel 7 in Boston has the scoop on Bishop’s time living in Ipswich, MA [7NEWS].

She often called the police to complain about “noise and kids in the neighborhood.”  Bishop had been outspoken at the November 12 faculty senate meeting against a new university policy that would have required all freshmen and sophomores to live on campus [al.com].  And what does the faculty senate do? [UAH Faculty Senate]

(Here are details on some of the specific things that ticked Bishop off and what she and her husband tried to do about them [Boston Globe].  The general perception is that they ostracized themselves from the local community).

The Mercedes Paz in the Channel 7 report is likely the M.A. Paz who in the early 1990′s authored papers with Amy Bishop and Paul Gallop, Bishop’s dissertation advisor [UAH] [ProQuest snapshot].

The reporter interviews a woman named Sylvia Fluckiger, who is listed as a former colleague of Bishop’s.  There is a person named R. Fluckiger on some of the Bishop-Gallop papers.  Perhaps she used a different name back then or the author was her husband/relative?  She mentions in the video that Jim Anderson, Bishop’s husband, was a “tinkerer” who could have made the pipe bombs mailed to murder Professor Paul Rosenberg.  According to the Boston Globe’s story yesterday, “Anderson was questioned about whether he had purchased any of the components used to make the bombs” [Boston Globe].  In that story Fluckiger made the connection more overt, saying that “we knew she had a beef with Paul Rosenberg. And we really thought it was a really unbelievable coincidence that he would get those bombs.”

In December 1993 someone tried to kill Harvard professor Paul Rosenberg with two mailed pipe bombs.  The incident as reported by the college newspaper back then [The Crimson]

Now we find that Bishop was allegedly a suspect in the attempted bombing [Boston Globe]:

Bishop surfaced as a suspect because she was allegedly concerned that she was going to receive a negative evaluation from Rosenberg on her doctorate work, the official said.

Result: no charges.  Anderson says that they were not suspects and the police “questioned everybody that ever knew this guy” [NY Times].

And meanwhile she wanted to write a novel about a scientist who kills her brother.  Sound familiar?

EDIT: Bishop’s dissertation was also published in December 1993.  For anyone who is interested and has access to ProQuest, it is called The Role of Methoxatin (PQQ) in the Respiratory Burst of Phagocytes. You can search for it and buy a copy [ProQuest]

The only listed advisor in the full ProQuest summary (only available to subscribers, snapshot here) is the late Harvard professor Paul Gallop, not Paul Rosenberg.  Both professors worked at Children’s Hospital Boston and co-authored papers from time to time [NCBI] [Harvard Catalyst].  Bishop and Gallop also shared some publications in the early 1990s [UAH].

can be found on PubMed. [NIH] Notice that J. Anderson is a coauthor on many.  EDIT: A more complete list–including abstracts and presentations given–can be found on the university website. [UAHuntsville]

The UAH President’s blog praises Dr. Bishop: [Dave's Blog, UAH]

And Amy Bishop talked about balancing family life and academic career? [Harvard Medical School]

And theblogprof calls the shooting “going professorial.” [theblogprof]

And A. Bishop’s Rate my professor profile [RateMyProfessor]

And what does a “Delegate” do? [Harvard Marshal's Office]

And in 2003 Harvard School of Public Health had a retreat where she presented a poster [HSPH]

And the status of a pending patent by J. Anderson [USPTO]

Turns out this patent is “CellDrive” which is also mentioned in that business-plan competition [Launchpad] that all the media reports are mentioning in relation to Amy. Well, looks like this particular has been rejected once since then…

Apparently Dick Reeves is the chairman of the company, Prodigy Biosystems, because his little group of investors, Huntsville Angel Network invested over a million into Prodigy.

Archive.org does its job. [archive.org]

Can’t forget to direct you to the Godlike Productions thread about this whole deal. [Godlike Productions]

Some neurons-on-a-rocket experiment [Exponent]

And a press release about it from A. Bishop’s lab [Google cache, of UAH]

Some sources: [National Post] and [al.com]

Company profile of Cherokee Labsystems [Manta]