Architect and designer Neri Oxman has responded to allegations of plagiarism following a report by the news website Business Insider.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Oxman apologised for citation errors in her PhD, which she completed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2010, stating that she "omitted quotation marks for certain work that I used".
"I regret and apologize for these errors"
The American?Israeli architect and designer made the statement following a piece published on Business Insider, which alleged that her dissertation was "marred by plagiarism".
"I was forwarded an email this morning from a reporter at Business Insider who noted that there are four paragraphs in my 330-page PhD dissertation: "Material-based Design Computation," which I completed at MIT in 2010, where I omitted quotation marks for certain work that I used," she wrote. "For each of the four paragraphs in question, I properly credited the original source's author(s) with references at the end of each of the subject paragraphs, and in the detailed bibliography end pages of the dissertation," she continued.
"In these four paragraphs, however, I did not place the subject language in quotation marks, which would be the proper approach for crediting the work. I regret and apologize for these errors."
"I have always recognized the profound importance of the contributions of my peers"
In her response, Oxman...