University of Maryland President Darryll J. Pines announced that he has requested an independent review of his research following accusations that he plagiarized a research paper more than 20 years ago.
The accusations against Pines surfaced Tuesday in The Daily Wire. The article alleges that 1,500 words of a 5,000-word paper co-authored by Pines and published in 2002 were plagiarized from a tutorial website called “Surfing the Wavelets” that was last updated in 1996.
Pines, a professor of aerospace engineering, was already part of the UMD faculty at the time his 2002 paper was published. Pines is the university’s first Black president, appointed in 2020. He is the latest in a slew of higher education officials who have been accused of plagiarism.
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