Neri Oxman admits to plagiarizing in her doctoral dissertation after BI report

Neri Oxman, a renowned architect and designer, has confessed to plagiarizing parts of her doctoral dissertation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) after a report by Business Insider revealed the extent of her academic misconduct.

According to the report, Oxman copied several passages from other sources without proper citation or attribution in her 2010 dissertation, titled “Material-based Design Computation”. The report also found that Oxman had fabricated some of her research data and results, and had misrepresented her role and contributions in some of her projects.

Oxman issued a statement on Thursday, apologizing for her “mistakes” and acknowledging that she had violated the standards of academic integrity. She said that she had contacted MIT and offered to correct and resubmit her dissertation. She also said that she had resigned from her position as a professor at MIT’s Media Lab, where she had led a research group called Mediated Matter.

Oxman’s admission of plagiarism has shocked and disappointed many of her admirers and collaborators, who had regarded her as a visionary and a pioneer in the fields of architecture, design, and biotechnology. Oxman had won numerous awards and accolades for her work, which combined art, science, and nature…