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Incidents at University of Pittsburgh

Total: 3


Incident 8108

Status: Resolved
Role: Department
Position:
Discipline: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Communications
Specific Discipline: Communications
Outcome Year: 2018
Outcome Category: Other
Quote: Disciplinary action for "multiple people" within department after finding.
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Incident 7811

Status: Resolved
Person: Tianyi Wang
Role: Faculty
Position: Associate Professor
Discipline: Medicine and Health Sciences
Specific Discipline: infectious diseases and microbiology
Outcome Year: 2014
Outcome Category: Resigned
Quote: "Wang resigned his position at Pittsburgh in later summer 2013. A copy of an email to his department chair filed with the suit suggests that he was forced to resign. In that email, Wang references a conversation about his departure, and asks for two months' "leave without pay" before moving on to get his lab in order."
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Incident 7809

Status: Resolved
Role: Faculty
Position: Professor
Discipline: Arts and Humanities
Specific Discipline: English Writing Humanities
Outcome Year: 1997
Outcome Category: Monetary Settlement / Award
Quote: "A former Pitt employee and graduate student has settled a sexual harassment suit against the University and professor Tony Petrosky, who holds joint appointments in the School of Education's Department of Instruction and Learning, and the English department."
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