Wife of financier who called for Harvard head’s exit faces plagiarism allegations
by Michael Sainato from US news | The Guardian on (#6HMXZ)
After Claudine Gay was ousted amid accusations of plagiarism, Neri Oxman was accused of copying from Wikipedia in dissertation
The wife of Bill Ackman, the hedge fund billionaire who accused Claudine Gay of being a plagiarist and led calls for her resignation as Harvard president, is now facing allegations of plagiarism herself.
Neri Oxman, a prominent former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has apologized after Business Insider identified multiple instances in which she lifted passages from other scholars' work without proper attribution in her 2010 dissertation. She also pledged to review the primary sources and request the necessary corrections.
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