University of California, Irvine graduate student reported Bruce Blumberg after conference trip she called “absolute nightmare”
A leading developmental biologist at the University of California, Irvine this spring resumed teaching and supervising students, including undergraduates, ending a 3-month suspension without pay imposed after the school found he had likely engaged in persistent, pervasive sexual harassment.
Although he agreed to a suspension and certain conditions for reinstatement, including his trainees meeting privately each quarter with the department chair to discuss any concerns about his behavior, Blumberg toldthat the recent UCI probe was “biased and extremely flawed” and that the school’s investigator led witnesses and ignored exculpatory evidence.
According to UCI’s investigative report last year, Blumberg was required to meet with administrators in 2013 when rumors of a consensual relationship with a student surfaced. Blumberg flatly denies having an affair, and during the recent probe, the former student told the investigator the relationship was professional.
Blumberg invited the student to accompany him to a conference in Elche, Spain. En route, according to the report, he showed her a photo of a building in Barcelona that he said “looked like a dildo.” They stopped for 3 days in Barcelona, where the student said he pressured her to drink alcohol and to stay out when, exhausted, she wanted to return to the hotel where he had booked them neighboring rooms. He suggested visits to a sex store and an erotic museum, the student reported.
Blumberg also noted that the UCI investigator interviewed the student in the presence of another witness—her other companion on the trip—a breach of policy UCI has acknowledged. And he providedwith several signed statements from former students calling him an excellent mentor and teacher.
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