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Committee denies prof's appeal
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The [PurdueUniversity] Exponent

Thursday, August 28, 2008

A Purdue University appeal committee denied an appeal from a Purdue professor accused of research misconduct.

Rusi Taleyarkhan, a professor in the department of nuclear engineering, has been formally reprimanded and sanctioned by the University, according to a press release.

Taleyarkhan claimed to have achieved bubble fusion, stating that the force of sound of waves can collapse bubbles in liquid to create an environment in which hydrogen atoms fuse together. However, the experiment was never able to be recreated in other laboratories.

In two incidences, a Purdue investigative committee found Taleyarkhan falsified the research record of his report. The professor made it seem that a graduate student had witnessed the experiment reported in the paper. Taleyarkhan announced that paper was an independent confirmation of his own sonofusion experiments.

Taleyarkhan has been formally reprimanded and sanctioned by the University. He will no longer have a named professorship and will not be allowed to serve as a major professor with graduate students for at least the next three years, according to a letter from Purdue Provost Randy Woodson.

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