April 6, 2007

Ohio U. Revokes Degree for Plagiarism

By PAULA WASLEY

Ohio University has revoked the master's degree of a former mechanical-engineering student who was accused of plagiarizing his thesis.

Announced last week, the action is, to date, the harshest penalty issued to any of the engineering graduates implicated in the university's continuing investigation into plagiarism that is said to have taken place over the past 20 years at its Russ College of Engineering and Technology.

The extensive probe began in 2005 after a former graduate

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