Yale postdoc shot, killed
A postdoctoral fellow at Yale University was shot and killed as he left his condominium in Branford, Connecticut this morning (26th April). Vajinder Toor, 34, was gunned down shortly before 8:00 AM EDT today in the parking lot of his housing complex. The gunman, who the linkurl:__New Haven Register__;http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2010/04/26/news/doc4bd586e9df5ac180416529.txt reports as being a "Chinese national," also tried to shoot Toor's pregnant wife as she rushed to her husband's aid.
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From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
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