Neri Oxman :The wealthy investor Bill Ackman has been charged with plagiarism in relation to his wife, MIT tenured professor Neri Oxman. According to a Business Insider story that was released on Thursday, Oxman copied portions of her doctoral dissertation from MIT in 2010, noting sections that the investigation discovered lacked proper citation. American-Israeli designer Oxman held a tenure-track position at MIT before departing to settle in New York. The article emphasized problems that were largely related to technical portions lacking quote marks for appropriate citations, which are difficulties that are also present in Gay’s scholarly work. Ackman hasn’t let up with his criticism of Gay; in fact, he went so far as to state that her “serious plagiarism issues” should prevent her from being a faculty member. He stood up for his spouse.
stating “that she makes mistakes is part of what makes her human” in a post on X.
Neri Oxman : According to a Business Insider article, Oxman allegedly copied several lines from other authors in her 2010 doctoral dissertation and at least one piece that was taken verbatim from other works without attribution. The article juxtaposed paragraphs from authors she allegedly neglected to properly cite with examples of her dissertation. On Thursday, Oxman expressed regret for a number of the problems identified in the study and emphasized that she has always understood the great value of the contributions made by her predecessors and peers.
The audit pointed up four passages in Oxman’s 330-page PhD dissertation, “Material-based Design Computation,” where she failed to cite some of the sources she referenced. She clarified that she appropriately cited the author(s) of the original source for each of the four paragraphs in dispute.
at the conclusion of each topic paragraph and in the dissertation’s extensive bibliography pages. She neglected to cite the relevant passages in these four paragraphs, which is the correct way to give credit for the work.
Oxman clarified that because not all of her sources are easily accessed online, she was unable to completely verify the report’s findings. When she gets access to the original sources, she plans to review each of the citations listed above and ask MIT to make any required adjustments.
Ackman and Oxman’s representatives informed NBC News that the couple’s X remarks would be the only additional commentary. Ackman criticized Gay outspokenly, referring to it as
a “grave and continuing reputational disaster to Harvard and to the Board.” He disagreed with Harvard’s choice to retain Gay on faculty and demanded the resignation of board members who had supported Gay.
On Thursday, after Oxman was charged with similar plagiarism, Ackman defended her. “You know that you struck a chord when they go after your wife, in this case my love and partner in life,” he wrote on X. “PLEASE NOTE her post about today’s Business Insider piece about her dissertation, which is below.” Her ability to own her faults, own up to them, and extend an apology when necessary is part of what makes her human.