Indian professor killed in US campus shooting - Calcutta Telegraph

Washingon, Feb. 13: Breaking a two-year lull in incidents of campus violence in America involving Indians, Gopi K Podila, chairman of the department of biological sciences at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, was shot dead yesterday in a bizarre incident at an academic meeting on the campus.

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Podila, originally from Andhra Pradesh, was killed by another biology professor, a 42 year-old woman, who is said to have been denied "tenure" or permanent job at the meeting that was discussing her future. Two other fellow biology professors at the meeting were also murdered and three other university employees were wounded, according to police accounts.

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