NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
OFFICE OF INVESTIGATIONS
CLOSEOUT MEMORANDUM
Case Number: A13020018 Page 1 of 1
Closeout
We received an allegation that a PI (Subject) 1 plagiarized in an NSF Proposaf from a journal
article he previously published. Although copying his own text does not meet NSF's definition of
research misconduct, we conducted a review to determine whether the Subject was requesting federal
funding for work that had already been completed.
Our review determined that the NSF proposal was not proposing work that had already been
completed, but rather appeared to propose an extension of prior work along with a novel goal.
Accordingly, this case is closed.
NSF OIG Form 2 (11/02)
Plagiarism (Verbatim)
Published by the National Science Foundation, Office of Inspector General on 2013-03-27.
Below is a raw (and likely hideous) rendition of the original report. (PDF)