DePaul University has fired a part-time biology professor after she gave students an optional assignment making a statement against Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
Anne d’Aquino offered an assignment in May in which students could write about the effect of the “genocide in Gaza on human health and biology.” The overall theme of the course centered on how microorganisms cause disease, according to KSTP.
In an email, the university said some students “expressed significant concern” about d’Aquino’s decision to infuse politics into a science class.
“We investigated the matter, spoke with the faculty member, and found it had negatively affected the learning environment by introducing extraneous political material that was outside the scope of the academic subject as outlined in the curriculum,” DePaul said Friday in a statement.
The school noted an email with the…
