The Chronicle of Higher Education

SUNY Art Professor's Use of Bacteria Prompts a Federal Investigation and an Academic Chill

By ROBIN WILSON

An art professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo is under federal investigation after paramedics called to his home for an emergency found bacteria and laboratory equipment that he was using in his research and for a future art exhibition.

The professor, Steven J. Kurtz,...

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