Jamie Gollan | 12:00am GMT 15 February 2026 Dr. Sarah Chen still remembers the email. It came on a Tuesday morning in March 2019, just three weeks before her PhD defense at Columbia University. The subject line read: “Academic Integrity Committee: Urgent Review Required.” Her stomach dropped. She’d spent four years on her neuroscience dissertation, …
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