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Gay will update her Ph.D. dissertation to add attributions for material in three spots, the school said Wednesday night, but again she was cleared of research misconduct by a board subcommittee..
The Harvard Corporation, the universitys top governing board, reaffirmed its support for Gay, the schools first Black president,last week in the wake of an appearance before a House committee to discuss antisemitism on college campuses..
The initial review determined Gays published papers hadnt violated Harvards standards for research misconduct, though there were a few instances of inadequate citation," the board said last week..
Neither the independent panel nor the board subcommittee found evidence of intentional deception or recklessness in Gays work, which is a required element for a determination of research misconduct" under the governing policy, the school said Wednesday, calling the inadequate citations regrettable..
The latest round of allegations, which came via an anonymous complaint to the school and were earlier reported by the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative political journalism website, included dozens of instances in which Gay allegedly pulled material or even exact phrasing from other publications without proper citation..
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