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Texas professor accused of plagiarizing a grant proposal

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

Rambis Chu, a physics professor at Texas Southern University, is accused of copying a proposal written several years earlier by John Miller, a physics professor at the University of Houston. Chu's proposal was submitted to the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Chu got tenure shortly before the alleged plagiarism was discovered.

IPBiz notes that a plotline in a Law & Order episode more than 10 years ago ("Big Bang") involved the stealing of a grant proposal (on proton lifetime). Nothing new here.

Separately, Chronicle has a story: 2 Universities' Plagiarism Policies Look a Lot Alike

Full post as published by IPBiz on January 28, 2009 (boomark / email).