April 29, 2005

In Brief

Critic Sues Over Tenure

A professor at the University of California at Berkeley who was the most outspoken critic of the university's unusual research deal with a biotechnology company sued the institution last week, charging that it had unlawfully retaliated against him by denying him tenure.

In a suit filed in a California state court, Ignacio H. Chapela, an assistant professor of ecology, also charged that the university had engaged in fraud by inducing him to accept a

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