Former University professor accused of inappropriate relations with student
Rockefeller University experienced its own bit of presidential scandal when its president, former Princeton University professor Arnold Levine, was accused of acting inappropriately with a female graduate student, the New York Times reported last week.Levine, a married man, resigned last week after admitting the incident ? which occurred last month ? to Rockefeller's trustees, according to the Times.Before becoming Rockefeller's president in 1998, Levine was the chair of Princeton's molecular biology department, which he founded in 1984.University professor of molecular biology and associate director of Lewis-Thomas Laboratories James Broach, Levine's friend and colleague since their working days together at SUNY Stony Brook twenty years ago, said Levine was the key person in the formation of the molecular biology department.