Accused University of Alabama Shooter Got Her Ph.D. at Harvard

Numerous sources (mostly feeding off reports at al.com) identify the woman suspected in today's mass shooting at the University of Alabama-Huntsville as Amy Bishop, who received her Ph.D. in genetics from Harvard five years ago.

MSNBC notes a possible motive:

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.

Bishop's research focused on the role of nitric oxide and other free radicals in signaling among nerve cells. Her recent publications include collaborations with Bruce Demple, a faculty member in the Department of Genetics and Complex Disease at the Harvard School of Public Health. Bishop, who joined the UAH faculty in 2004, and her husband Jim Anderson, who was also taken into custody, also had developed a portable incubator for cell cultures, and seemed to be in the process of commercializing it.