Embattled Harvard professor barred from teaching next year
“Marc Hauser, the prominent Harvard University psychology professor who was found by university investigators to have committed scientific misconduct, will not teach there next year, after a decisive faculty vote and a decision by the dean." April 20, 2011, Boston Globe, http://articles.boston.com/2011-04-20/news/29451676_1_marc-hauser-scientific-misconduct-psychology
Michigan State University professor guilty of plagiarism
“Michigan State University professor Sharif Shakrani is “guilty of research misconduct” for plagiarizing paragraphs in his 2010 school-consolidation study commissioned by The Grand Rapids Press and Booth Michigan newspapers, a university research integrity committee says." April 18, 2011, Grand Rapids Press, http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/04/msu_professor_plagiarized_and.html
In Germany, Uproar Over a Doctoral Thesis
“While Americans have been obsessing lately about Charlie Sheen and his live-in porn film stars, Germany has been consumed by improprieties over a doctoral thesis." March 14, 2011, New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/books/merkels-possible-successor-resigns-in-plagiarism-scandal.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha28
Narcissistic Students Don't Mind Cheating Their Way to the Top, Study Finds
“College students who exhibit narcissistic tendencies are more likely than fellow students to cheat on exams and assignments, a new study shows." November 30, 2010, Science Daily, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101130161604.htm
Cheating and the Generational Divide
“The revelation that hundreds of University of Central Florida students in a senior-level business class received an advance version of a mid-term exam has exposed the widening chasm in what different generations expect of each other -- and what they perceive cheating to be." November 17, 2010, Inside Higher Education, http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/11/17/cheating
Plagiarized Report Presents New Hurdle to GM Eggplant in India
“In an embarrassing revelation, a landmark report from India's six science academies backing commercial planting of genetically modified (GM) brinjal, or eggplant, has been found to contain materials plagiarized from a pro-GM newsletter." September 28, 2010, Science Insider, http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/09/plagiarized-report-presents-new.html?etoc
Probation for Biologist Who Admitted to Misconduct
“After pleading guilty earlier this summer to making false statements in a grant report, former University of Wisconsin biologist Elizabeth Goodwin was sentenced Friday by a Wisconsin district judge." September 7, 2010, Science Insider, http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/09/probation-for-biologist-who-admitted.html?etoc
U.S. Finds Misconduct by Former Washington State Postdoc
“A former postdoctoral researcher at Washington State University fabricated and falsified data in a journal article." September 1, 2010, Inside Higher Education, http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/09/01/qt/
Hausergate: Scientific Misconduct and What We Know We Don't Know
“Confusion still lingers after the recent news that Harvard University has found that noted cognitive scientist Marc Hauser engaged in scientific misconduct. Researchers don’t know whether to consider all of Hauser's work suspect, or just some of it." August 25, 2010, SCIENCE Insider, http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/08/hausergate-scientific-misconduct.html?etoc/
Professor found responsible for misconduct
“Harvard has found prominent psychology professor Marc Hauser responsible for eight instances of scientific misconduct, involving three published papers and five additional experiments, and the matter is being investigated by the US attorney’s office, the university said yesterday." August 21, 2010, Boston.com, http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/08/21/harvard_finds_professor_responsible_for_misconduct/
Harvard is urged to detail inquiry
“Scientists are calling on Harvard University to make public details about the findings of its three-year internal investigation of psychology professor Marc Hauser’s laboratory, which found evidence of scientific misconduct." August 12, 2010, Boston.com, http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/08/12/harvard_is_urged_to_detail_inquiry/
Author on leave after Harvard inquiry
“Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser — a well-known scientist and author of the book 'Moral Minds'’ — is taking a year-long leave after a lengthy internal investigation found evidence of scientific misconduct in his laboratory." August 10, 2010, Boston.com, http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2010/08/10/author_on_leave_after_harvard_inquiry/
Plagiarism Is Not a Big Moral Deal
“It’s hard to get from the notion that you shouldn’t appropriate your neighbor’s car to the notion that you should not repeat his words without citing him." August 9, 2010, New York Times, http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/plagiarism-is-not-a-big-moral-deal/
Policing Plagiarism Abroad
“Unfortunately, in our quest for instant success, honesty has been thrown out of the windows." July 27, 2010, Inside Higher Education, http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/07/27/china
Never plagiarize your valedictory speech
"If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, what about plagiarism? Comedian Patton Oswalt might have something to say about that -- he has apparently busted two plagiarists in the last few weeks, the latest a Columbia University valedictorian." May 25, 2010, ABC News, http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/patton-oswalt-plagiarized-comedian-busts-columbia-university-valedictorian/story?id=10740791
Falsifying college applications
"In reality, Verner said, Wheeler’s only previous college education was at Bowdoin College in Maine, where he was a student for two years before he was suspended in 2007 for plagiarizing an essay." May 19, 2010, Boston.com, http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/05/19/wheeler_case_shows_flaws_in_college_application_process/
Ambrose's list of falsifications grows
"Ambrose not only fabricated interviews with Eisenhower, he manufactured written evidence relating to his presidency as well." May 17, 2010, History News Network, http://www.hnn.us/articles/126527.html
Confessions?
"And now I wonder what deep-down resentment the late Stephen Ambrose was nursing that motivated him to lie about his closeness to his biographee Dwight D. Eisenhower..." April 29, 2010. The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/opinion/29iht-edkeillor.html
Plagiarized commencement address
"As colleges go through this year's rounds of fighting over commencement speakers, Connecticut College is having a painful examination of last year's student speech." April 22, 2010. Inside Higher Education, http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/04/22/conncoll
Ghostwriting in China
"Ghostwriting, plagiarizing or faking results is so rampant in Chinese academia that some experts worry it could hinder China's efforts to become a leader in science." April 11, 2010. Associated Press, http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100411/ap_on_re_as/as_china_academic_cheating_2;_ylt=AmTwLPT7ale9jnJazfdJ5AflWMcF
Professor retracts article
"A prominent Michigan State University plant science researcher has retracted a 2-year-old academic review article on the use of genetically engineered crops in bio-fuel production after a university committee found she had plagiarized a portion of it." April 7, 2010. Lansing State Journal, http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20100407/NEWS06/4070324/MSU-professor-retracts-article-over-plagiarism
Facebook nails Philipino tycoon for plagiarism
"A prominent Philippine businessman has resigned from a prestigious academic post after he was found to have made a speech plagiarising well-known figures." April, 4, 2010. BBC.com, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8602674.stm
Attorney's plagiarism costs laboratory a patent
"Vladimir Drozdoff had just started working at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory when he was asked to investigate why a patent had been denied for what the lab considered a genetics breakthrough." March 25, 2010. Law.com, http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202446761779&src=EMC-Email&et=editorial&bu=Law.com&pt=LAWCOM%20Newswire&cn=NW_20100325&kw=
Cheaters never win
"A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology devised a clever way to detect student cheating on homework in his introductory physics course—and found about 50 percent more cheating than students reported in anonymous surveys. And he discovered that frequent cheaters ended up bombing their exams." March 18 2010. Chronicle of Higher Education, http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Cheaters-Never-Win-at-Least/21895/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Plagiarism in blogs
"A popular medieval studies blog has come under fire from a number of academics for allegedly republishing original content from other publications without attribution." March 17 2010. Inside Higher Education, http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/03/17/medieval
University president resigns over plagiarism charge
"Gary W. Streit chose to retire from his job as Malone University president after students petitioned the school’s board to investigate whether Streit inappropriately used passages from other sources without attribution in a Jan. 13 speech." February 22, 2010. Cantonrep.com, http://www.cantonrep.com/stark/x723439502/Malone-president-to-step-down-questions-raised-over-speech
Old-school v. New-school views of plagiarism
"From allegations against 'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling to demonstrable wrongdoing by reporters at The New York Times and The Daily Beast, February might as well be 'National Plagiarism Month.'" February 19, 2010. The Christian Science Monitor, http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0219/Posner-Kouwe-and-Hegemann-old-school-vs.-new-school-attitudes-about-plagiarism
Tampering with answer sheets in Georgia
"Georgia education officials ordered investigations on Thursday at 191 schools across the state where they had found evidence of tampering on answer sheets for the state’s standardized achievement test." February 11, 2010. The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/education/12georgia.html
Stanford finds cheating on the rise
"Allegations of cheating at Stanford University have more than doubled in the past decade, with the largest number of violations involving computer science students." February 7, 2010. Mercury News, http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_14351156?source=email&nclick_check=1
Papermill shut down by judge
"A district court judge in Illinois has ordered the owner of a Web-based company to stop selling term papers unless he can prove he has permission from the papers' authors." February 1, 2010. USA Today, http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-02-01-term-papers_N.htm