Layoff averted
With folks losing jobs left and right, here’s a rare bit of good news on the employment front. Dr. Patrick McGovern, the scientific director of the Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, reports that he’s going to get to keep his job - at least or the next three years.
You might recall that the museum tried to boot McGovern just before Christmas last year, citing budget cuts and its goal to turn the museum into more of a tourist magnet.
(For beer drinkers wondering why this is at all important, click here. McGovern is the scientist behind Dogfish Head Midas Touch, among other historic beer and wine re-creations.)
I know a number of readers told me they wrote to the museum on behal of Pat, who acknowledged that support in his email today.
” I greatly appreciate and thank you for your moral and very tangible support over the past six months. It was manifested in advice, personal letters on my behalf, signed petitions, articles in the press and on the internet, telephone calls, and meetings.
“My goal now is to build upon past research efforts, which [museum director] Richard Hodges has described as ’stellar,’ and make more advances in scientific archaeology.
More advances? Sounds like more beer to me!
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