The CanWest News Service reports that the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canada’s major grant-making agency for science, has barred a star nanotechnology researcher at the University of Calgary from future grants because of allegations of improper use of grant money and plagiarism. The council did not name the researcher, but the news service said it had identified him as Daniel Kwok. Mr. Kwok, who has received grants and fellowships worth around $2-million, denied any wrongdoing, telling CanWest, “I have replied to NSERC. The whole thing was unfair. I can’t say any more.”
The university had recently warned its researchers that sloppy management of grant money could put Calgary’s annual $80-million of federal grants at risk, according to Maclean’s. The university gave the magazine a summary of a government draft report that called for immediate action to correct the problems.
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