Heels

Read about researchers whose actions prohibited them from realizing their professional goals. Each person listed either admitted to research misconduct or, after being accused, was given a fair hearing by a recognized body; found guilty; and sanctioned.

Anthropology: Reiner Protsch Autism: April Swe   Biochemistry: Robert Liburdy
  Biology: Nicholas McMaster   Cellular Biology: Gary Kammer
  Chemistry: Jin Wei   Civil Engineering: John Sheils
Diabetes: Eric Poehlman Embryonics: Jong Hyuk Park   Genetics: Steven Leadon
Geriatrics: Jennifer Blaisdell History: Brian VanDeMark   Immunology: Elias Alsabti
Medicine: Hiwot Woreta Neurophysiology James Lin   Oncology: Paul Kornak
Physics: Jan Hendrik Schon Plant Biology: Richard Walden   Psychology: Amy Beth Glodring
Sociology:

Laud Humphreys

Veterinary Medicine: Hwang Woo Suk   Anesthesiology: Zhenhai Yao
           
           

Optional assignment

Find a researcher in your field not listed who meets our criteria. Send the name and URL of a website where an official body publicly sanctions the researcher to dgedelma@ncsu.edu. Assuming all criteria are met, the researcher's name may be added to the list.

Acknowledgments:

We gratefully acknowledge those who contributed heros and heels: Garett Franklin, Stephanie Teixeira, Abby Cameron, Michael Schulman.

And we salute those who wrote drafts of multiple choice questions used throughout OSRE:

Suja Thomas, Jaap van Kretschmar, Phil Lewis, Kara Stewart, Jamal Lewis, Anand Doraiswamy, Jennifer Cowley, Lisa Jemery, B. Wichmann, C. Elam, JM Saquing, Ajit Moghe, Pam Liming, Katherine Whitten, Todd Loendorf, David Wagner, Olgha Davis, Malloreye Lovett, Meghan Hegarty, Kristal Wilson.