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HowStuffWorks founder Marshall Brain sent final email before sudden death
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- sitkack 2y ago> In his email, Brain wrote that the school's head of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering later informed him the department would stop recommending students for Brain's Engineering Entrepreneurs Program. According to Brain's account, this led to disciplinary action against Brain for "unacceptable behavior." This is a cowardly move by Srinath Ekkad. The the article from the student paper is worth a read and includes information carefully removed in the Ars version, https://www.technicianonline.com/news/popular-nc-state-professor-marshall-brain-dies-alleges-retaliation-for-ethics-complaints/article_152e5c80-ac2e-11ef-8b3f-036ac3c8d9bf.html https://www.technicianonline.com/news/popular-nc-state-profe... Please don't kill yourself when you have accidentally kicked a hornets nest of petty people in a bureaucracy.
- FrustratedMonky 2y ago"Brain’s complaint contained allegations of wrongdoing in the form of “untrue statements, incompetence, hiding info, bad faith dealings and unethical behavior” after a disagreement with Misra in August regarding repurposing the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program meeting space to accommodate a new hire. " So, conflict over making a meeting room for a new hire? Was this something innocent that escalated dramatically?
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- leftcenterright 2y agohe link was unavailable for me, archive works: https://archive.is/tvATR https://archive.is/tvATR Thanks for sharing!