Word: fraud
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...University's standing committee on professional conduct is investigating possible research fraud by a graduate student working in the laboratories of Nobel Prize winning professor Walter Gilbert '53, biology department sources said this week...
Gilbert said yesterday he could not discuss the matter because University policy makes it confidential. The professor said he makes his policy on research fraud very clear to lab workers, and that he is extremely vigilant about preventing and detecting any fraud. "I'm very conscious of the need to keep good laboratory notes, and we distribute detailed instructions," Gilbert said...
Gilbert referred other questions to University Attorney Anne Taylor. Taylor said yesterday afternoon she "could not confirm or deny" any investigation or allegation of research fraud...
...addition, some sources said that the federal Office of Research Integrity had been made aware of the allegation of fraud. Dr. Kay Fields '63, senior scientist at the office, said she could not confirm or deny that the case had gone to her office...
Walsh, who was indicted last October on 59 counts of conspiracy, bank fraud and making false statements to a federally insured bank, pleaded innocent...