
After former Harvard President Claudine Gay's resignation last week, Harvard alum Bill Ackman, one of the leading voices calling for the former college leader's firing, set his crosshairs on MIT President Sally Kornbluth, announcing his intention to carry out an informal investigation into the cell biologist and other MIT faculty's work in search of plagiarism.
The billionaire hedge fund manager announced the move in a post to X last Friday in response to back-to-back reports from Business Insider that accused his wife, Neri Oxman, a former MIT professor, of plagiarizing parts of her 2010 dissertation, Bloomberg reported.