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A 2 1 2 0 1 8 The Region A5 tutes of Health. Hours after the lawsuit was filed last week, Atlas reached out to her personal network and asked for volunteers in the scientific community to help the women in the Dartmouth case and others facing similar harassment from their profes- sors and mentors. Professors at universities from Harvard to McGill in Montreal and data scientists at companies such as Uber Technologies and online retailer Wayfair Inc. have vol- unteered to give advice about graduate schools and job searches and offered to read manuscript drafts. Atlas said she visited Dart- mouth and had friends who went there for their doctoral studies and knew that students faced pressure to socialize with their advisers to get ahead.

kind of always felt that they had to navigate something beyond their science, and that feel fair to Atlas said. requires a net- work. That becomes really diffi- cult when in a toxic envi- uDARTMOUTH Continued from Page A1 ronment and your formal advis- ers be relied According to the class-action lawsuit, three former neurosci- ence professors at Dartmouth groped female students in plain sight, hosted drinking and hot tub parties with students, open- ly debated who had the and allegedly sexually as- saulted the students they were supposed to be training. professors leered at, groped, sexted, intoxicated, and even raped female the lawsuit alleges. The professors, Todd Heath- erton, Paul Whalen, and Wil- liam Kelley, were influential in brain science de- partment for the past two de- cades and exercised tremen- dous control over their stu- dents academic careers delaying exams, withholding advisory meetings, and threat- ening the research and funding of women who shunned their advances, according to the law- suit and the six students named in court documents.

One of the plaintiffs is listed as All three professors left Dartmouth earlier this year. Heatherton retired. Whalen and Kelley resigned. The students allege that ad- ministrators at the Ivy League college in Hanover, N.H., should have done more to po- lice this behavior and had re- ceived previous sexual harass- ment complaints against two of the three professors. The students are seeking $70 million in damages.

Dartmouth has defended its handling of the case, which drew national attention last year when news reports sur- faced that the college had launched an investigation into the three professors and that the New Hampshire attorney gener- al had opened a criminal probe into their alleged behavior. In a letter to the Dartmouth community last week, Dart- mouth president Philip J. Han- lon said the college took steps and was prepared to revoke the profes- tenure. conducted a rigorous, thorough, and fair review of the Hanlon wrote in the letter that disputed the law- characterization of Dart- response. But in interviews last week, the women named in the suit said that Dartmouth has failed to address the broader culture at the college that allowed the alleged behavior to thrive.

Dartmouth alone, crit- ics say. Academia in general has often been slow to address the problems of sexual harassment, said BethAnn McLaughlin, an assistant professor of neurology and pharmacology at Vander- bilt University who started Me- TooStem earlier this year. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in a sweeping study found that sexual harassment was pervasive in the medical and engineering fields where undergraduate and graduate students are more likely to be exposed to inappropriate be- havior from faculty or staff than their peers in non-STEM fields. The University of Roches- president, Joel Seligman, resigned earlier this year over that handling of sexual misconduct accusations against a science professor. Last year, Boston University found evidence that a well- known geologist sexually ha- rassed a graduate student al- most two decades ago while on an isolated field expedition in Antarctica.

In October 2015, astrono- mer Geoff Marcy resigned from University of California Berke- ley, after a story in BuzzFeed re- vealed that he had repeatedly violated the sexual ha- rassment policies without fac- ing sanctions. But the Dartmouth case has resonated with so many in the sciences because idea that we are not doing any better for the next generation is really powerful and really McLaughlin said. MeTooSTEM was formed about a month ago to advise sci- entists dealing with sexual ha- rassment at their labs, schools, and workplaces. McLaughlin has also been pushing federal agencies and professional groups to revoke grants and awards from those found guilty of sexual misconduct. The organization has raised more than $67,800 in the past month, mostly from donations of less than $100, McLaughlin said.

These grass-roots efforts are necessary because institutions, from colleges and universities to federal agencies that fund re- search, are falling short in pro- tecting students, she said. The Dartmouth lawsuit has highlighted the power that pro- fessors can have over their graduate students and the shortcomings of Title IX poli- cies designed to address sexual harassment, scientists said. For example, even after stu- dents complained to Dart- mouth about the professors in April 2017, college administra- tors encouraged the students to work with these men to avoid retaliation. That meant the women had to continue to en- dure the same harassment they had complained about, accord- ing to the lawsuit. The Dartmouth students made a change and going to be long last ing McLaughlin said.

Deirdre Fernandes can be reached at deirdre.fernandes@globe.com. sex District Attorney Marian Ryan said in an interview. very confident, given both the DNA information and the in- vestigative In 2010, investigators con- nected Sumpter to the 1972 rape and slaying of El len Rutchick, 23, at her Beacon Street apartment in Boston. Two years later, authorities said DNA evidence showed he was responsible for the 1973 mur- der and sexual assault of Mary Lee McClain in her Beacon Hill apartment. In all three cases, investigators believe Sumpter did not know the women.

Sumpter, who died of cancer while on parole at the age of 54, was convicted of raping a stranger at her Boston apart- ment in 1975 and assaulting another woman he met at the Harvard Square Sta- tion, just blocks from apartment, three years after murder. After his death, Sumpter was also linked by a DNA match to a 1985 rape in Boston. killing is the oldest cold case Middlesex prosecu- tors have ever solved, and Ryan said there were many and along the way. hope this is a good exam- ple for people not that we are going to solve every case, but we are trying to get she said. a matter of things lin- ing up so that we get a Most of family died uKILLER Continued from Page A1 long ago.

But her brother, now a vicar at an Anglican church in Santa Barbara, thanked friends, journalists, and public officials, including State Police Sergeant Peter Sennott, for their part in keeping the inves- tigation alive. half century of mystery and speculation has clouded the brutal crime that shattered promising young life and our the Rev. Boyd R. Britton wrote in an e-mail. DNA evidence may be all we ever have as a conclusion.

Learning to understand and forgive remains a murder received national news coverage at the time. Britton, 23, was a talented Har vard student and the daughter of an administrator at Radcliffe College, and evidence found at her apartment such as scattered grains of red pow- der sparked endless specula- tion about who committed the crime and why. But police never made an arrest or named a sus- pect, deepening the mystery. A former New Yorker staffer is working on a book about the case, and reality television pro- ducers are working on a poten- ia ser ies he case a so sparked a public records battle, as journalists and amateur in- vestigators alike tried unsuc- cessfully to request copies of the investigative files. Now that the case is closed, office released about 3,500 pages of redacted docu- ments from the investigative file collected over the years.

On Tuesday, her office also released a more detailed timeline of what they think happened. On the evening Britton was last seen alive, she went ice skating with her boyfriend on Cambridge Common and stopped at a pub across from her apartment building on Uni- versity Road, authorities said. She returned to her fourth-floor apartment with her boyfriend around 10:30 p.m. After her boyfriend left an hour later, Britton visited her next-door neighbors, where she had a glass of sherry before re- turning to her apartment at 12:30 a.m. The next day, her boyfriend discovered her body on her bed after she failed to show up for an exam.

At the time, police suggested that Britton was probably killed in the middle of the night by a blow to the head, but they never positively identi- fied a murder weapon. Prosecutors now believe that Sumpter probably climbed up a fire escape and crept through an open window to her apart- ment, where he raped and killed her. A neighbor told po- lice that her daughter heard a noise on the fire escape earlier that evening, and another wit- ness saw a man roughly match- ing build running away from the building around 1:30 a.m. Investigators said previous DNA testing had generated a pointing to Sumpter, but it conclusive. This time, investigators used newer technology to obtain a more de- tailed DNA profile from the swabs collected from body, which matched DNA profile in a law enforce- ment database.

They were also able to track down a new DNA sample from brother, which also pointed to Sumpter and ruled out his brother. The results excluded 99.92 percent of the male population, officials said. Investigators also found that Sumpter had numerous ties to Cambridge and once worked on Arrow Street, a 10-minute walk from apartment. However, prosecutors said they have no reason to think Sumpter was responsible for the death of Ada Bean, another Cambridge woman found blud- geoned to death in her apart- ment a month after murder. Authorities also said there is no apparent connection with the murder of Beverly Samans, a 23-year-old graduate student who was killed in apartment complex four years earlier.

Albert DeSalvo, the Bos- ton Strangler, claimed responsi- bility for that murder, but he was in prison by the time Brit- ton was killed. Prosecutors also said the ochre powder turned out to be a red herring. Shortly after the murder, a university professor suggested the powder was con- sistent with an ancient Persian burial ritual, sparking specula- tion the murder may have been committed by someone in the anthropology department, where Britton was a student. She had also gone on an archeo- logical expedition to Iran with classmates. But investigators found no connection between the depart- ment and the kil ing, and learned the pigment is com- monly used in painting, one of favorite hobbies.

Prosecutors recently collect- ed DNA samples from a num- ber of people who knew Britton to rule them out as suspects. Among them was Don Mitchell of Hawaii, who lived next door to Britton with his wife at the time and was one of the last people to see Britton alive. Like others, Mitchell had long suspected the killer was someone Britton knew at Har- vard. was Mitchell said Tuesday. few people at the time thought it was somebody random who came in and killed her.

Everyone thought it was connected to the anthropology After learning last month that her killer had been found, Mitchell planted a Hawaiian tree with yellow blossoms as a symbol of putting the case to rest. Since her death, hardly a month has gone by without Britton crossing his mind. we go on from he said. Todd Wallack can be reached at Follow him on Twitter Academics offer to mentor, advise women who feel unsafe Officials believe they have killer in 1969 cold case MIDDLESEX OFFICE The building on University Road in Cambridge outside Harvard Square where Jane Britton lived and was killed Annual Percentage Rate (APR) quoted is the lowest rate available as of October 11, 2018. Subject to credit approval.

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