These emails were fake; they were part of a field experiment to measure whether professors were more likely to respond to the email depending on (1) the time-frame (today versus next week) and (2) the name of the sender, which was varied to signal ethnicity and gender (Carlos Lopez, Meredith Roberts, Raj Singh, etc).
Dës Emailen sinn gefälscht; Si waren Deel vun engem Feldexperiment fir ze mellen ob d'Professoren méi wahrscheinlech op d'E-Mail reagéieren, abhängig vu (1) dem Zäitframe (haut versus nächste Woch) an (2) den Numm vum Absender, dee variéiert huet fir d'Ethnie ze signaliséieren an d'Geschlecht (Carlos Lopez, Meredith Roberts, Raj Singh, etc).