One of your high-profile, highly-compensated professors is under investigation by The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee for having stolen large sums of money from NASA. His M.O. is the same as George Washington University’s Professor Bedewi: You create a private business run by your wife and kids and all, and you send your grant money there. You then use that money to buy — they all buy the same shit — massive SUVs, massive houses, etc.
It’s awkward because, although he’s on administrative leave, you’ve still got this guy’s university web page up, welcoming everyone to the Innovative Nuclear Space Power and Propulsion Institute, which he directs, and where he shows the sort of innovative entrepreneurial approach to directing an academic institute that lands you and your university in the middle of a big fat Senate hearing.
Seems to UD that the solution is something like the following: Take down the guy’s page and replace it with a generic Welcome to the Institute page, on which you note that the current director is on administrative leave.
May 8th, 2009 at 9:39AM
Hey Tina, How about a Profile of this Guy…
Here’s a Penn State alum that you won’t see profiled in the Penn Stater blog anytime soon….