A Ph.D. student at Dartmouth College exposes a culture of unethical conduct within the psychology department, particularly regarding the inappropriate behavior of tenured professors towards female students.
In September 2015, I arrived from the Boston Airport on the Dartmouth Coach that loops around the green. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today. I felt hopeful about things that were going to happen here, things I’d get to learn, and science I’d get to do. But it doesn’t feel very much like that anymore. I’m Vassiki Chauhan. I’m a Ph.D. student in the field of cognitive neuroscience.
I’m pursuing my Ph.D. at Dartmouth, and I specifically work on how humans perceive faces of other people. When I was in the ninth grade, I got my hands on a book about theory of relativity and Einstein’s life, and how he became a scientist, and that just blew my mind. I became really intrigued by physics, I spent all my pocket money buying books about cosmology, general relativity and quantum mechanics, like I was really really really into it. Because I was interested in physics, I loved thinking about artificial intelligence and robotics...so it kind of all came together in the end. When I was pulling into Hanover, and I flew in from Mumbai, I was captivated by these red brick buildings. I felt like I was kind of walking into a dream when I got there. Once I got here, I noticed that in order to fit in, there was a certain amount of requirement to go together and get a drink. There were three tenured professors in the department of psychological and brain sciences. Todd Heatherton, Bill Kelley and Paul Whalen. They brought in a lot of grants, they were very famous. The professors would be in the bar, and all of a sudden, you know, some women in the group would suddenly have new drinks in their hands that they didn’t even choose, that they didn’t pay for, and we knew that they were paid for by the professor
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