U of M accused of mishandling plagiarism allegations against influential professor
Jé Judson, who worked under Rachel Hardeman alongside Brigette Davis, published a series of slides online in April 2025 comparing passages from Hardeman’s application for a federal grant, known as an R01, to the dissertation proposal Davis shared with Hardeman years earlier. The highlighted sections show matching and nearly matching language.
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Plagiarism allegations against Rachel Hardeman, a nationally known professor at the University of Minnesota, burst into public view this month. But they had been circulating through “whisper networks” in public health circles for more than a year, spurring multiple complaints to the university and the National Institutes of Health. The people who filed those complaints found it hard to understand how university officials could deem copying entire passages from another researcher’s work an “honest error.”