Chapter 331
"This is impossible!"
Charlie Wilson shot to his feet.
Sophia Sullivan and the other two were students at MIT.
Their advisor, Professor Eleanor Watson, was also a tenured faculty member.
"If not under the university's name, then under whose?"
His assistant replied quietly, "The Boundless Laboratory."
Charlie Wilson suddenly remembered something.
He grabbed his mouse and frantically scrolled through the paper.
He searched for a long time but couldn't find Eleanor Watson's name.
He muttered to himself, "...No corresponding author? That can't be..."
The assistant said, "According to regulations, if there's no corresponding author, the first author is defaulted as the corresponding author. Their procedure is correct."
The procedure was correct.
But why would Eleanor Watson do this?
She could have put her name on it.
She could have enjoyed this honor.
Why...
Nora Frost strode out of the president's office.
Charlie Wilson rarely saw him look so grim.
"Nora—what's wrong?"
Nora Frost said, "Come with me to State A!"
"Now? What for in State A?"
"To find Eleanor!"
After the unveiling ceremony.
Eleanor Watson had taken Miss. Moore back to State A to continue her convalescence.
Charlie Wilson suddenly understood. "...You know too?"
Nora Frost's face was dark.
Charlie Wilson said, "Should we try calling first? Is it necessary to go in person?"
"You still don't understand how serious this is. She did it on purpose—"
Nora Frost was agitated.
His phone suddenly rang.
It was Eleanor Watson calling.
He answered immediately.
His voice was cold and hard. "Eleanor, the university deserves an explanation!"
"Explanation?" Eleanor Watson chuckled lightly. "What explanation?"
"You privately gave up your right to authorship. And you let the students put the achievements under a private lab's name. This damages the university's interests!"
"Heh..." Eleanor Watson laughed.
She had expected the university to demand answers.
But she hadn't expected Nora Frost to be so worked up.
Then again.
It wasn't just any journal.
It was Nature Biotechnology.
A top-tier global biology journal.
So it wasn't that he didn't care.
The benefits just weren't big enough before.
Now the benefits were substantial.
And he couldn't sit still anymore.
Eleanor Watson said, "Nora, what right do you think you have to question me?"
Nora Frost was stunned.
"When Sophia Sullivan and the others were being bullied. Where was the school? Where was the university?