NUS fires top professor


A top professor from the National University of Singapore (NUS) was dismissed for sexual misconduct, the university said in a statement.

Prof Theodore G. Hopf, the provost chair professor at the department of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, “had sexually harassed the student in physical, verbal and written forms”, it added yesterday.

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