There is strong evidence that a University of Wisconsin-Madison geneticist committed “serious professional misconduct” in her research, wrote Chancellor John Wiley, adding that if she had not already resigned, dismissal proceedings would have warranted.
Elizabeth “Betsy” Goodwin, an associate professor with tenure, had $1.7 million in two grants from the National Institutes for Health to study the sexual habits of worms. There were “irregularities” in three grant applications, a three-member investigative panel wrote in a report dated April 26. She resigned March 1.