Math associate professor: I wasn’t involved in writing the NSF grant
One of the seven mathematics faculty members listed on the original National Science Foundation proposal that was found to be plagiarized confirmed she did not participate in writing the proposal.
Mathematics associate professor Lisa DeMeyer was one of the seven faculty members on the investigative staff for the grant proposal and was a senior staff member on the project.
She said in a letter e-mailed to Central Michigan Life she did not participate in writing the grant proposal.
“I assisted the co-principal investigators developing course materials, that was going to be my job but the project was stopped before the work was complete,“ DeMeyer said.
The Board of Trustees decided to return $619,489 in grant money to the NSF after plagiarism took place in the proposal and the research.
Two members of a math department research project were found to have violated CMU’s research integrity policy, and one of those people is no longer working at CMU, said Interim University President Kathy Wilbur in previous interview.
Of the seven CMU math faculty listed on the original grant, two have since left the university — Azita Manouchehri, now a professor at Ohio State University, and Ken Smith, now a professor at Sam Houston State University.
The other math faculty members still at CMU include Douglas Lapp, Charles Vonder Embse, Dennis St. John and Carl Lee.
