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Conference leader received funding from sex offender in 2017
The University of Arizona canceled an upcoming conference this month after multiple speakers were mentioned in the newly released Epstein files.
“We regret to inform you that the 2026 The Science of Consciousness conference, scheduled for April 6–11, at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, has been cancelled,” an announcement from the school reads.
“After careful consideration and consultation with the conference organizing team, we have determined that it is no longer feasible to move forward with the conference as planned,” it reads.
The conference’s leader, Stuart Hameroff, confirmed in a post on X that the conference was canceled due to several speakers’ connection to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“The University of Arizona and conference organizers have determined this was necessary due to several speakers and organizers including myself being mentioned in the Epstein files,” he wrote.
He also wrote that he received funding from Epstein for a TSC conference in 2017.
“I deeply regret that, and apologize to Epstein survivors, those horrified by his activates, TSC participants and my colleagues at the University of Arizona, especially the Arizona Astrobiology Center,” he wrote.
Hameroff (pictured) is also a professor emeritus in the school’s Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology.
The College Fix reached out to Hameroff via email for more information about the speakers’ connection to Epstein, but has not received a response.
UA is not the only school with professors who had connections to Epstein.
A University of California Los Angeles professor’s online profile was removed from the school’s website after his name appeared in the files, according to KTLA.
Over 7,000 people signed a petition calling for associate professor Mark Tramo’s removal.
“What we learned about Epstein’s horrible crimes after his 2019 arrest was not known at the time of the correspondences in the recently released documents,” he told KTLA.
In addition, Yale University recently “relieved” an accomplished computer scientist of his teaching load while it investigates him for an email he sent 15 years ago to the sex offender and controversial financier, The Fix reported.
“I have a perfect editoress in mind: Yale sr, worked at Vogue last summer, runs her own campus mag, art major, completely connected, v small goodl=oking [goodlooking] blonde,” he wrote to Epstein.
Late last year, former Harvard University President Larry Summers apologized for his close relationship with Epstein.
In a 2018 email, Summers told Epstein he was a “very good wingman” and detailed his efforts to pursue a woman.
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