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Science 3 March 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5765, p. 1229
DOI: 10.1126/science.311.5765.1229e
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SEOUL--Physicist Robert Laughlin, the first non-Korean president of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), is facing a faculty revolt. Nearly half of the school's 409 professors have voted in an informal tally to unseat him ahead of a meeting of the board of trustees later this month on whether to renew his contract, which comes up for extension in July.

Soon after arriving at the institute in Daejon in July 2004, the blunt-talking Nobelist unsettled some faculty members with a range of reform proposals and funding changes (Science, 20 January, p. 321). "Laughlin has done the opposite of what we had asked him to do," says a former dean who stepped down last year after clashing with his boss.




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