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- Neri Oxman, an academic and wife of billionaire investor Bill Ackman, plagiarized parts of her doctoral dissertation at MIT, according to a report from Business Insider. Ackman has become one of the most prominent critics amplifying a series of accusations, including plagiarism, against Harvard’s leader, who resigned this week.
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Jan 8, 2024 · In early January, an expos é published in Business Insider alleged that Neri Oxman, a designer and former MIT professor, had plagiarized parts of her doctoral dissertation, after her...
Jan 4, 2024 · Neri Oxman, an academic and wife of billionaire investor Bill Ackman, plagiarized parts of her doctoral dissertation at MIT, according to a report from Business Insider.
Jan 4, 2024 · Oxman plagiarized multiple paragraphs of her 2010 doctoral dissertation, Business Insider found, including at least one passage directly lifted from other writers without citation.
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Billionaire investor Bill Ackman has been a vocal critic of Harvard’s recently resigned president, Claudine Gay, over allegations of plagiarism and her handling of antisemitism on campus. Now his wife, Neri Oxman, has been accused of similar plagiarism in her own MIT dissertation.
A Business Insider article published Thursday alleged Oxman plagiarized parts of her 2010 doctoral dissertation at MIT citing several passages that the report found lacked appropriate attribution. NBC News hasn’t independently reviewed the academic sources cited in the report.
Oxman is an American Israeli designer who was a tenured professor at MIT before leaving the university and moving to New York.
The article highlighted issues similar to those found in Gay’s academic work, mainly involving technical passages that were missing quotation marks for proper citations.
The Business Insider report claimed Oxman “plagiarized multiple paragraphs of her 2010 doctoral dissertation” and found “at least one passage directly lifted from other writers without citation.” The article presented examples of her dissertation side by side with passages from authors she allegedly failed to cite accurately.
Oxman apologized for several issues found in the report on X Thursday. She stressed, “I have always recognized the profound importance of the contributions of my peers and those who came before me.”
The report noted “four paragraphs in my 330-page PhD dissertation: ‘Material-based Design Computation’” where “I omitted quotation marks for certain work that I used,” she wrote.
“For each of the four paragraphs in question, I properly credited the original source’s author(s) with references at the end of each of the subject paragraphs, and in the detailed bibliography end pages of the dissertation,” she explained. “In these four paragraphs, however, I did not place the subject language in quotation marks, which would be the proper approach for crediting the work. I regret and apologize for these errors.”
The examples posted by Business Insider showed Oxman’s explanation as true in three examples of the alleged plagiarism. However, it also showed an example in which she appeared to paraphrase an author without a parenthetical citation or quotes and another passage in which she allegedly inaccurately attributed a passage from the Royal Society of London paper to two different sources.
Oxman explained that she wasn’t able to thoroughly check the claims of the report because not all of her sources are readily available online.
Ackman was very vocal in his criticism of Gay.
The prominent hedge fund manager spoke out online against Harvard over the Ivy League institution’s response to campus protests of the Israel-Hamas war, and of Gay’s congressional testimony regarding the handling of antisemitism on campus.
That pressure against Gay culminated when plagiarism allegations surfaced regarding her academic works.
The Harvard Corporation ordered an investigation that “revealed a few instances of inadequate citation,” but found no violation of Harvard’s standards for research misconduct.
The investigation led her to submit four corrections to articles she published, which were part of the review, as well as corrections to her PhD dissertation from 1997, The Harvard Crimson reported.
Gay ultimately stepped down on Tuesday, and Ackman did not relent in his criticism.
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Jan 5, 2024 · The bulk of the plagiarism BI found was in her dissertation, which runs more than 300 pages. Wikipedia wasn't the only resource she cited without attribution in the paper that earned her a...
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Jan 5, 2024 · Bill Ackman's wife, Neri Oxman, admitted to plagiarizing in her doctoral dissertation while getting her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jan 9, 2024 · On January 4, Business Insider published a report highlighting instances where it alleged that Oxman plagiarized from sources in her PhD dissertation. The following day, BI published a report...
