Spouse of Billionaire Who Pushed for Harvard President’s Ouster Apologizes for Plagiarism in Dissertation

Neri Oxman, an architect and former MIT professor, in addition to the spouse of billionaire Invoice Ackman, apologized Thursday for a number of situations of plagiarism in her 2010 dissertation that had been reported by Enterprise Insider.

Within the article, reporters Katherine Lengthy and Jack Newsham wrote that Oxman had cited two authors, however didn’t use citation marks round materials plagiarized from their paper, and paraphrased a e-book with out together with a quotation. In a submit on X, responding to the story, Oxman wrote: “I remorse and apologize for these errors.”

Oxman’s husband, Ackman, has not too long ago been within the information, relating to academia, over his push to oust former Harvard president Claudine Homosexual, who resigned from her submit earlier this week. Ackman had referred to as for Homosexual to be fired over her response to antisemitism on the college, and situations of plagiarism that had surfaced during the last a number of months. (In December, Harvard mentioned Homosexual had requested corrections on two of her papers and can be updating her dissertation in a number of spots.) He has since referred to as for members of Harvard’s governing board to step down.

In response to the Enterprise Insider article, and Oxman’s apology, Ackman wrote: “You already know that you just struck a chord after they go after your spouse, on this case my love and associate in life, @NeriOxman. I’m probably the most lucky individuals within the universe largely due to Neri. Please see her submit under about in the present day’s Enterprise Insider piece about her dissertation. A part of what makes her human is that she makes errors, owns them, and apologizes when acceptable.”

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