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  1. Theodore Streleski

    Theodore Landon "Ted" Streleski (1936) was an American former graduate student in mathematics at Stanford University who murdered his former faculty advisor, Professor Karel de Leeuw, with a ball-peen hammer on August 18, 1978. Shortly after the murder, Streleski turned himself in to the authorities, claiming he felt the murder was justifiable homicide because de Leeuw had withheld ...

  2. UNC graduate student charged with killing faculty advisor makes first

    Hannah Schoenbaum. /. AP. Tailei Qi, the graduate student suspected in the fatal shooting of a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty member, center, makes his first appearance at the ...

  3. TIL that, in 1978, a Stanford PhD student murdered his advisor ...

    An article in Science Times on March 27 about graduate students who have killed their professors referred incorrectly to the case of Theodore Streleski, a Stanford University student who bludgeoned Karel deLeeuw, a Stanford math professor, to death. At the time of the killing, Mr. Streleski's academic adviser was Halsey Royden, not Dr. deLeeuw. Mr.

  4. Professor's Murderer, Still Unrepentant, Is Free Man

    After serving seven years and 20 days for the 1978 murder of a Stanford University mathematics professor, Theodore Streleski, 49, walked out of prison at 8 a.m.

  5. UNC Chapel Hill graduate student Tailei Qi charged with murder in

    Tailei Qi, a second-year PhD student majoring in applied physical sciences, has been charged with the fatal shooting of his academic advisor, Zijie Yan. Mr Qi is facing charges of first-degree ...

  6. When Student-Adviser Tensions Erupt, the Results Can Be Fatal

    March 27, 2007. Being a graduate student is the most grueling and intense part of becoming a scientist, but it rarely leads to murder. Here are some rare instances. Take the case of Theodore ...

  7. UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student charged with murder in shooting of

    HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — A graduate student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill was charged Tuesday with f atal ly shooting a professor — the latest incident in a spate of national gun ...

  8. PhD student 'shot dead faculty adviser at University of North ...

    A physics PhD student has been arrested in the shooting death of a University of North Carolina faculty adviser. Tailei Qi, an applied physics PhD student originally from Wuhan, China, was ...

  9. University of North Carolina graduate student charged in killing of

    HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (AP) — Authorities charged a University of North Carolina graduate student Tuesday with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of his faculty advisor, in an attack that ...

  10. Grad student charged with murder of UNC professor

    Aug. 29, 2023 8:27 AM PT. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. —. Police charged a University of North Carolina graduate student Tuesday with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a faculty member that ...

  11. PROFESSOR`S KILLER FREE, NOT SORRY

    Originally Published: September 9, 1985 at 1:00 a.m. Theodore Streleski, the unrepentant Stanford graduate student who bludgeoned one of his professors to death eight years ago in what he said was ...

  12. Victim identified, suspect charged in fatal UNC-Chapel Hill shooting

    Photo: www.unc.edu. UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student Tailei Qi, 34, has been charged with first degree murder in Monday's on-campus shooting of Zijie Yan, 38, an associate professor in the university's Department of Applied Physical Sciences. Yan, who was identified as the victim Tuesday, served as academic advisor to Qi.

  13. Not just Mainak Sarkar: 5 other students who killed professor(s) in US

    Robert Flores Jr., 41, a student flunking out of the University of Arizona nursing school, shot three of his professors to death, then killed himself, on Oct. 2, 2002. Flores had failed a ...

  14. IIT Kharagpur alumnus kills US professor at UCLA over academic spat

    On Wednesday, Sarkar, a 38-year old IIT Kharagpur alumnus, who had been working on a Ph.D at UCLA for several years, walked into Klug's office in at University of California, Los Angeles ...

  15. 34 year old PhD student kills his advisor

    Academia has a systemic issue with professors abusing PhD students. This murder happened for want of accountability, which there is none. 0% chance the professor wasn't an awful human being. This isn't the first time an exploited PhD student murdered their professor out of desperation.

  16. Pictured: UNC Professor Allegedly Killed in His Lab by Grad Student He

    Pictured: UNC Professor Allegedly Killed in His Lab by Grad Student He Was Advising The victim was an associate professor in the Department of Applied Physical Sciences, at UNC-Chapel Hill

  17. Failing to get promotion to associated professor, a lecturer ...

    Reminds me of the Stanford math PhD student who killed his advisor because he wouldn't let him graduate. ... I think it's really a matter of the research not quite being there and a kind of sunk cost fallacy on the part of the PhD student. Usually PhD programs will pull funding after some amount of time (typically <=6 years) and a benevolent ...

  18. TIL of Ted Streleski who after 19 years of being a PhD student killed

    TIL that some members of the Sama-Banjau ethnic group intentionally rupture their ear drums at a young age in order to improve their ability to dive & hunt at sea.

  19. A difficult message about the loss of a beloved student

    Dear faculty, staff, and students, ... The recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, he began his studies at Stanford in fall 2017, and co-authored several papers ...

  20. 7 Career-Killing Mistakes That Keep PhDs Poor And Unhappy

    Mistake #1 - Spending extensive amounts of time writing a thesis. Your thesis is a means to an end, it's not a work of art. Too many PhD students turn the molehill of writing a 100+ page summary of their research into a mountain of publishing the next A Brief History of Time. Don't do this.

  21. Man saves uncle's life with organ donation after motorcycle crash

    After 24-year-old graduate student David Menchaca was killed in a motorcycle accident, his family says he saved his uncle's life through organ donation. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook

  22. Recent Suicide of a PhD Student : r/GradSchool

    manofthehippo. ADMIN MOD. Recent Suicide of a PhD Student. I defended two months ago and just got back from a postdoctoral interview in which the 7th year doctoral graduate student took his own life a month prior. While we, as graduate students, know personally and professionally the toll that a career in research takes on the mental health of ...

  23. What is exactly the role of a phd advisor?

    There are students who cope well with an advisor who is completely absent, because it gives them absolute freedom. They are probably a minority. Indeed, others feel good when their advisor greets them each morning with a few kind words. In order to find a good match, you need to determine how much time you want your advisor to spend on your case.

  24. University of California, Riverside

    UCR is hiring for this great opportunity!

  25. UF PhD student killed himself in his lab a year ago. ACM ...

    UF PhD student killed himself in his lab a year ago. ACM completed their investigation yesterday, and the most severe violator was banned from publishing for 15 years. ... Sounds like the kid probably did all the work himself, found the advisor's hypothesis invalid, was then forced to fake the data and write the paper anyway. ...