Additional documents soon available :

• Court documents filed by Plaintiff demonstrating that Cornell and its Counsel (Wendy Tarlow and Thomas D'Antonio of Ward, Greenberg) have committed perjury in their submissions to the court. Also, Cornell administrators (Ritter, Kotlikoff, Parpia, Mueller etc) have repeatedly resorted to fraudulent statements and outright lies in their various responses to the NY State Supreme Court, the EEOC, the OCR and other federal agencies in order to conceal their illegal conduct. These documents will also soon be available.

• Documents further evidencing egregious violations of University policies and US laws by Physics Department faculty and Ritter will soon be accessible, for e.g. Department Chair Parpia asking Vengalattore to write research proposals on his behalf in return for considering AMO graduate applicants to Cornell Physics; Gretchen Ritter and Erich Mueller (the then LASSP director) threatening to illegally appropriate the Vengalattore labs’ federal research infrastructure if Vengalattore and his students did not cease their complaints about Cornell’s misconduct, Erich Mueller demanding the transfer of Prof. Vengalattore's federal research grants to his own accounts, Erich Mueller and other Cornell administrators orchestrating the theft of Prof. Vengalattore's laboratory infrastructure in violation of Cornell's federal research contracts etc.

• Documents showing the theft of Prof. Vengalattore's federal grants and laboratory infrastructure by Erich Mueller, Gretchen Ritter and other administrators in violation of Federal Law, Cornell's federal research contracts, e.g. Falsified federal research reports, grant fraud, false statements in communications to the NSF and ARO by Erich Mueller and Cornell's Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP), etc.

• Documents showing the fraudulent alteration of Prof. Vengalattore's tenure dossier by the Cornell Physics department administrators, e.g. with false publication statistics, deliberate omission of numerous expert letters that strongly recommended his tenure, and removal of positive teaching reviews from his dossier.

• Detailed analysis of graduate admissions decisions by the Cornell Physics department over 2009-2015 showing systematic discrimination against the Vengalattore group by Parpia (Department chair, Physics) and Lawrence Gibbons (Director of Graduate studies, Physics), and repeated denial of admissions to highly qualified applicants interested in working with Prof. Vengalattore. Based on this evidence, the Cornell Tenure Committee noted in its report that this discrimination "hindered MV's ability to grow his research program in a timely manner".

• On-record conversations with faculty members acknowledging the Physics department's fraudulent conduct, the manner in which Lauren Aycock was allowed to sabotage the tenure review with false allegations, and the orchestration of the sham tenure review by Cornell administrators and lawyers (for example, see here).

• Prof. Kevin Clermont's (Ziff Professor of Law at Cornell) letter to University Counsel Madelyn Wessel about the false allegations against Prof. Vengalattore stating, among other things, "I cannot resist saying that a reasonable person would not find guilt, even by a preponderance, unless that person made the amateurish mistake of ignoring the probative value of the absence of direct evidence after an incredibly exhaustive investigation... Cornell is acting as if the court order did not exist."

This letter is now available, here.

• "Quotable Quotes" - Quotes by Cornell Physics faculty, deans and other Cornell administrators, including by the Directors of LASSP, LEPP and Kavli, regarding Prof. Vengalattore's tenure review and the false allegations solicited against him.

• • "There definitely were problems with the evidence. The tenure vote was taken while several evidentiary issues were still unresolved... Details such as this expose the university to litigation should Mukund take the matter to court..."

  • "There are a number of irregularities in this case that should be made known to the [Tenure] Appeals committee"

  • "There was a strong reaction by some in the department to dismiss and denigrate the [Strausser] report. It seems that some of my colleagues had originally formed such a strong opinion that it was not going to be reversed by new evidence".

  • "Can you imagine what would happen if we took action against a blonde, female student? Twitter would explode and the entire department would be labeled bullies. We don't want that."

  • Transcript of a conversation between Prof. Vengalattore and a senior member of the Cornell Physics department regarding the fraudulent tenure review. The statements by the senior professor during this conversation (And other similar conversations) contradict Cornell's narratives to the the NY State Supreme Court, the OCR and the NYDHR, viz: Cornell's false claims that it conducted an investigation into LA's claims, or that LA's claims had no effect on the tenure votes, or that the tenure decision was based entirely on assessments of Prof. Vengalattore's publication record.

  • Statements by various Cornell faculty and administrators regarding Prof. Vengalattore's tenure case are attached below. These statements by Cornell's own faculty members acknowledge administrative misconduct by the Cornell Physics department (Jeevak Parpia, Erich Mueller, Ritchie Patterson, Lawrence Gibbons, Paul McEuen) and the College of Arts and Sciences (Gretchen Ritter). These statements also contradict Cornell's fraudulent narratives to the NY State Supreme Court, the EEOC and other federal agencies investigating this matter. The statements below are excerpted from a document sent by Prof. Vengalattore to Dean Lance Collins to demonstrate the retaliatory and fraudulent nature of the tenure review conducted by the Cornell Physics department.