2.7 Research and Scholarship Misconduct

Fraudulently manipulating laboratory processes, electronic data or research data in order to achieve desired results.

Submitting fraudulent or manipulated data in a scholarly article that you co-authored with your supervisor.

Including fabricated references in a research paper or your Honors/Graduate thesis.

Failing to prepare the thin sections needed for your Honors or Graduate thesis (due to lack of time), finding old thin sections on a shelf in the lab, and relabeling them as your own.

Returning to your supervisor’s research lab a few months after submitting your Honors thesis and removing the samples related to your project so you can incorporate them into your Graduate thesis.

Stealing an image that was drafted by a research colleague and incorporating it into your poster for your final course project.