The Chronicle News Blog: Professor in Plagiarism Scandal Is Allowed to Proceed With Lawsuit Against Ohio U.
A federal appeals court has given a professor embroiled in a 2006 plagiarism scandal at Ohio University the go-ahead to proceed with a lawsuit against the university.
Jay S. Gunasekera, a professor and former chairman of the department of mechanical engineering at Ohio, sued two university officials — Provost Kathy Krendl and the engineering school’s dean, Dennis Irwin — in 2006, after the university suspended his graduate-faculty status over allegations that he had been negligent in preventing plagiarism among graduate students he was advising.
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