Original title: inside the death of Dr. Liu Meimei: who pushed her down the Golden Gate Bridge?
Tang Xiaolin, an American student, has been gone for six months;
In October 2017, a piece of information about the search for missing Chinese female students attracted attention in the United States: Tang Xiaolin, who graduated from Peking University in 2004 with a major in space physics and worked as a tutor and assistant researcher at the University of Utah in the United States, lost contact in San Francisco.
The last trace left before Tang Xiaolin disappeared was on October 1, when she went to the welcome center on the south side of the Golden Gate Bridge. That's where she said in a message to her friend that she was going to end her life.
Later, her body was found by police in the Cold Bay & hellip; & hellip;
Chinese students from the Department of physics and astronomy at the University of Utah received an e-mail from Professor Bromley, the dean of the Department, Thursday, saying that Tang Xiaolin, a graduate student from China, had died.
On the same day, a spokesman for the University of Utah confirmed that Tang Xiaolin had been confirmed dead by police.
After the news of Tang Xiaolin's death was announced, the cause of her death became the focus of people's attention!
Some university of Utah students believe that Tang's death may have been due to her mentor, saveez saffarian, putting too much pressure on her.
Judging from the known experience of Tang Xiaolin, she has spent a long reading career. In 2004, he entered Peking University to study space physics, and in 2008, after graduation, he went to Utah University to study as a graduate student. Later, I studied for a Ph.D. in Biophysics at the University of Utah, and I was still working on a rather difficult viral RNA project. '
This is her seventh year of doctorate. According to Tang Xiaolin, she has published six articles in the past seven years, but still hasn't graduated.
An anonymous netizen who claimed to be Tang Xiaolin's junior sister and was also studying in the United States said that Tang Xiaolin 'sometimes goes to the laboratory in the middle of the night to watch the experiment, which is very hard', 'I remember eating with her once, after eating it all at 10 p.m., she still has to go back to the laboratory to see the results. "At the same time, the netizen also said that Tang Xiaolin had changed her tutor in the process of reading the blog." the former tutor was said to be not very good to her and another Chinese girl. '
What's more puzzling is that after Tang Xiaolin died, her tutor deleted the information about Tang Xiaolin and another Chinese girl from the research team for the first time.
According to the common sense, the tutor should express his condolences on the homepage. For the abnormal situation, he contacted Dr. Tang Xiaolin for 7 years and sent 6 articles. He has not graduated yet. We can't help but doubt the tutor's lack of heart and cold blood. '
In order to find out whether the tutor's relevant practices directly or indirectly led to Tang Xiaolin's death, many Chinese students at the same school said that they should ask the school to publish the tutor's and Tang Xiaolin's email at the last stage, as well as find out why the tutor did not allow Tang Xiaolin to graduate.
The school said it would investigate Tang Xiaolin's tutor to see if there was any unfair treatment of students.
In order to find out the cause of Tang Xiaolin's suicide, since October last year, Utah University hired Foley and Lardner law firm in Florida to interview more than 40 former and current students, professors, school administrators, friends and family members of Tang Xiaolin, and consult documents related to Tang Xiaolin.
Finally, a six page research report was presented recently.
The findings reveal serious problems in the Department of physics and astronomy at the University of Utah:
Students are overworked and their degrees are postponed; the atmosphere in the laboratory is tense and noisy; students are divided to fight for resources; factional teachers are grumpy and indifferent to each other. In recent years, many cases in which Chinese students died or became victims of crimes seem to be related to these factors. The report confirmed that Tang's course of study had been postponed and that her graduation seemed to be far away.
In particular, Tang Xiaolin did not participate in the qualification exam until the 7th year of postgraduate, which is inconsistent with the policy. Investigators found that students often exceeded their expected workload, a rigorous doctoral program. Students often need to study late at night and on weekends in a tense laboratory environment. The survey also found that the number of international students participating in teacher-student groups and graduate advisory committees was small, and they were intolerant of negative experiences. The right of student tutors to supervise student progress, research direction, recommendation letters and visa related documents can be magnified infinitely in front of international students, and may be abused sometimes.
Tang Xiaolin's tragedy happened to many graduate students, doctoral students, especially researchers at home and abroad.
Different from the bright and promising projects imagined by the outside world, they often face the embarrassing situation that the tutor will not let them graduate, the experiment fails repeatedly, and they will spend a lot of time studying the project "never get results". Even after graduation, they may also face the embarrassing situation that they cannot find the right job at all.
After the tragedy, we need to ask more about what pushed the dead into the abyss than the censure of "poor psychological quality" and "stupid reading"?