Someone made a point that the position he held at IST is akin to a TAship in the US, so when a student graduates they can no longer hold that position as it's passed on to the incoming students. The use of the term "terminated" threw me off, but as it was pointed out, he left to attend Brown it appears.
He was once a very smart and talented young man. (The first date should be 1994, btw.) We’ll eventually know for sure if he failed to graduate in Portugal (at the time he was terminated as a monitor) and something about what he has done since. For him to get into a physics PhD programme at Brown after his course in Portugal, he’d usually have had the BSc or MSc in place.
I think there’s sometimes a stigma among hyper competitive types about this kind of thing in academia. I work in academia with only a masters degree and my colleagues are constantly asking me if/when I plan to get a PhD. I love my work-life balance and feel fulfilled enough that I don’t have a desire to run my own lab or obtain my own funding. It doesn’t bother me because I’m happy with what I do and don’t really desire to make a name for myself in my field.
www.bbc.co.uk
Summary of how he was caught.
I did not hear about this particular tip (unless I missed it) which led police to the particular car rental agency.
"Another tip came from someone who reported seeing an individual at a rental car outlet who the tipster believed matched the person seen in footage released by police on Wednesday, a law enforcement official told CNN."
How investigators zeroed in on the Brown University shooting suspect and linked him to the killing of an MIT professor
Five days after an extensive manhunt began, law enforcement closed in on the Brown University shooting suspect after the emergence of apparent ties between the attack Saturday at the Providence, Rhode Island, school and the killing two days later of an MIT professor at his Massachusetts home.www.yahoo.com
It might be based on some research he thought he should have done- a "stolen" idea, a rejected paper- just speculating, but it might require really "getting into the weeds" to find what was bothering the shooter and does he have any support system? If he is kind of a loner he could easily get lost in his own head IMO. Usually people aggrieved for so long would leave a letter or a manifesto but LE has not said that anything was found.
He may have wanted to get to Brown before students left for the winter break and so when he landed in Boston he rented a car and went directly to Brown. He also appears to have needed a few days or a week or so to walk around and get the lay of the land, again, after having been gone for so many years.
wow, that's truly sad to hear. Thank you for sharing your personal experience. I wonder how much mental health stress is caused by outside influence on people and them feeling they have to "live up to" something or "do more"?
Grad school can really be a shock to the system. Personally, I had a lot of structure through high school and undergrad, and then when I started my master's and suddenly had to do a lot more self-directed work, I floundered. Turned out I had undiagnosed ADHD, and things got a lot better for me once I was properly diagnosed and medicated, but I wonder if CV experienced something similar but without the improvement?
Wow that’s wild. The professor was murdered on Monday night, and previous reporting said the killer entered the storage unit shortly after.
I doubt Professor Loureiro needed to apply to the green card lottery. He would have come to the U.S. on a student visa if he got his Ph.D. here. But if not, he would have likely come on to the U.S. with an H-1 visa as a post-doc or already as a faculty member. He would have had options and not needed to apply through a lottery. Many of our post-docs in higher education come to the U.S. on H-1 visas with the universities as their sponsors.
