Goodyear made no mention of Rorsman’s aborted experiment in his announcement, which said the 2010 chairholders “are currently working in 13 institutions across the country, contributing to Canadians’ well-being and the country’s global competitiveness.”

Rosman is in fact back in England, pursuing diabetes research at Oxford University.

Boutin said casualties were to be expected. “We never expected we would have 19 completely happy successful chairholders for seven years,” Boutin told Postmedia News.

The University of Alberta received $1,016,666 from the federal program to pay for Rorsman’s short stay.