Handling of bubble fusion dogs Mason in quest for Iowa job
Purdue's handling of the bubble fusion matter has generated bad press; for example, Rick Callahan of AP wrote:
Faced with scathing criticism from a congressional panel, Purdue University has agreed to add at least one independent scientist to its latest inquiry of a nuclear scientist who claims he produced nuclear fusion in tabletop experiments.
Curiously, Purdue University Provost Sally Mason, who is nominally in charge of the investigation, faced some tough questions about the matter as she was interviewed for the job of President at the University of Iowa.
A report in the Journal & Courier included the text:
Mason, 57, said the results of the inquiry will be confidential, but the action that results will make the outcome apparent to the public. She said Purdue is following the correct process, but information has been leaked to the media, which have spread speculation and made the inquiry more difficult. She said time ultimately will vindicate the inquiry.
Of Bayh-Dole matters, there was the text:
Mason told the regents about her efforts in economic development and using faculty research to bring in money for the university and the state, which is a major priority in Iowa. She helped launch Discovery Park a multidiscipline endeavor that integrates learning and faculty research with business ventures.
"Not all faculty will embrace the idea of taking what they do as research and finding some commercial use. (But) a lot of faculty today see the benefit, but don't have the view to do this. We (at Purdue) are running a boot camp for this," Mason said.
IPBiz finds it interesting that universities seem to want administrators who re-do programs that they have done somewhere else. When not explicitly going after "old work," they can be tricked into thinking old is new. The Southern Illinois University (SIU) business is an example of where the past work was concealed from the later employer, and indeed "passed off."
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One notes that a story by Kathryn Fiegen in the Iowa City Press Citizen described the Purdue investigation:
Soon after Taleyarkhan's findings were released, the university was plagued with allegations of research misconduct after other scientists around the world spent billions trying to replicate the process without luck.
Purdue investigated the matter and found no instances of research misconduct.
IPBiz is not sure that "billions" were spent. However, one thing that became apparent AFTER the Brad Miller request was that the Purdue investigation was very limited in scope and did NOT address research misconduct, contrary to what Fiegen reported. As reported on IPBiz: Curiously, the one matter that had been investigated involved the OMISSION of Taleyarkhan's name from two supposedly independent papers.
While IPBiz considers the involvement of Congressman Miller in this affair troubling, IPBiz considers the way Purdue administrators are handling this even more troubling. Further, for a reporter to write on June 12, 2007: Purdue investigated the matter and found no instances of research misconduct is inexcusable. Whatever the merits of the research of Taleyarkhan, it simply is not true that Purdue addressed "research misconduct" issues in the investigations to date. The Iowa City Press-Citizen ought to be ashamed.
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After writing the above, IPBiz came across a post on fromdc2iowa, which included the text:
-->as to the UI search-->
But there is no basis for its arguing that the Web sites it examined and found relevant should be confidential -- not what a member wrote in the margins of a Web site printout, not what was discussed in closed session about the information, not even what it was committee members found significant on that Web site -- just the URLs, the Web site addresses of sites containing information available to any member of the public.
-->as to IPBiz ("credentialed blogger")-->
* A credentialed blogger reported this past March, from Reuters, that "neither Purdue Provost Sally Mason or spokeswoman Jeanne Norberg consider this a matter of fraud or even worthy of an investigation; instead, Mason said, it is 'a review of the research and the allegations related to it.'"
Faced with scathing criticism from a congressional panel, Purdue University has agreed to add at least one independent scientist to its latest inquiry of a nuclear scientist who claims he produced nuclear fusion in tabletop experiments.
Curiously, Purdue University Provost Sally Mason, who is nominally in charge of the investigation, faced some tough questions about the matter as she was interviewed for the job of President at the University of Iowa.
A report in the Journal & Courier included the text:
Mason, 57, said the results of the inquiry will be confidential, but the action that results will make the outcome apparent to the public. She said Purdue is following the correct process, but information has been leaked to the media, which have spread speculation and made the inquiry more difficult. She said time ultimately will vindicate the inquiry.
Of Bayh-Dole matters, there was the text:
Mason told the regents about her efforts in economic development and using faculty research to bring in money for the university and the state, which is a major priority in Iowa. She helped launch Discovery Park a multidiscipline endeavor that integrates learning and faculty research with business ventures.
"Not all faculty will embrace the idea of taking what they do as research and finding some commercial use. (But) a lot of faculty today see the benefit, but don't have the view to do this. We (at Purdue) are running a boot camp for this," Mason said.
IPBiz finds it interesting that universities seem to want administrators who re-do programs that they have done somewhere else. When not explicitly going after "old work," they can be tricked into thinking old is new. The Southern Illinois University (SIU) business is an example of where the past work was concealed from the later employer, and indeed "passed off."
***
One notes that a story by Kathryn Fiegen in the Iowa City Press Citizen described the Purdue investigation:
Soon after Taleyarkhan's findings were released, the university was plagued with allegations of research misconduct after other scientists around the world spent billions trying to replicate the process without luck.
Purdue investigated the matter and found no instances of research misconduct.
IPBiz is not sure that "billions" were spent. However, one thing that became apparent AFTER the Brad Miller request was that the Purdue investigation was very limited in scope and did NOT address research misconduct, contrary to what Fiegen reported. As reported on IPBiz: Curiously, the one matter that had been investigated involved the OMISSION of Taleyarkhan's name from two supposedly independent papers.
While IPBiz considers the involvement of Congressman Miller in this affair troubling, IPBiz considers the way Purdue administrators are handling this even more troubling. Further, for a reporter to write on June 12, 2007: Purdue investigated the matter and found no instances of research misconduct is inexcusable. Whatever the merits of the research of Taleyarkhan, it simply is not true that Purdue addressed "research misconduct" issues in the investigations to date. The Iowa City Press-Citizen ought to be ashamed.
***
After writing the above, IPBiz came across a post on fromdc2iowa, which included the text:
-->as to the UI search-->
But there is no basis for its arguing that the Web sites it examined and found relevant should be confidential -- not what a member wrote in the margins of a Web site printout, not what was discussed in closed session about the information, not even what it was committee members found significant on that Web site -- just the URLs, the Web site addresses of sites containing information available to any member of the public.
-->as to IPBiz ("credentialed blogger")-->
* A credentialed blogger reported this past March, from Reuters, that "neither Purdue Provost Sally Mason or spokeswoman Jeanne Norberg consider this a matter of fraud or even worthy of an investigation; instead, Mason said, it is 'a review of the research and the allegations related to it.'"
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