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UW Madison grad student died of suicide; father blames abusive boss

This is a post about an electrical engineering grad student at UW-Madison who died by suicide in 2016; if you don't want to read this, I won't mind. 

Via Twitter, this story about the 2016 death by suicide of a graduate student in electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The article is written by Kelly Meyerhofer of the Wisconsin State Journal:

By the time UW-Madison realized something was wrong in the Wireless Communication and Sensing Laboratory, it was too late for John Brady. Graduate students described the work environment under engineering professor Akbar Sayeed as “toxic” and “abusive.”... 

...The churn put more pressure on Brady, who came to UW-Madison in 2010 to pursue a doctorate in electrical engineering and worked as a research assistant in Sayeed’s lab. Despite Brady and others’ attempts to address how Sayeed’s behavior drove students away, the tirades continued and Brady’s responsibilities mounted. He trained new student workers on top of his own research, pushing his degree further into the future…. 

...In 2016, Brady’s seventh year on campus in a program that typically lasts five or six, he started secretly recording Sayeed screaming at students in the lab. He hammered out his thoughts in a Microsoft Word document, describing a siege mentality among students in the lab. He arranged a meeting with a trusted faculty member that fall, one he had turned to the year before with concerns about Sayeed. 

Brady never made the meeting. In October 2016, at age 28, he killed himself. 

UW-Madison redacted Brady’s name from the report, but his father, Jim Brady, agreed to speak publicly about his son’s suicide for the first time. His sole reason in agreeing to do so: He wants to know what UW-Madison has done to prevent work environments like the one his son found himself immersed in for years.

I don't wish to excerpt the whole article, but it is worth a read. Professor Sayeed seems like a terrible adviser, and it seems that John Brady was a decent student doing his best to deal with the situation. There are a number of similar cases in chemistry, it seems. 

I will say that UW-Madison appears to have done the normal things after one of these events (e.g. adding more mental health resources, doing peer trainings, etc), but the response of the administration to Professor Sayeed seems pretty tame: he was placed on a two year leave without pay, some of which he spent working at the National Science Foundation. The administration appears to be allowing Professor Sayeed to work with graduate students once more, but "an outside committee will oversee any students in his research group to monitor the climate. Additionally, those within the group will be informed that the extra oversight is because of Sayeed’s previous violation of university policy."

This is one of these remarkable things about becoming a tenured professor in large research universities - even when it is quite clear that there is significant abusive behavior, you can always find yourself back in charge of students. There's always a second chance for the tenured, even as there is no second chance for John Brady. 

Students and postdoctoral fellows, I care about you. Want to talk? My e-mail is chemjobber@gmail.com. Thinking about self-harm? The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255. Here are the warning signs of suicide. 

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