I had the pleasure of working with Jane Wilhelms, who was one of my doctoral students from 1981 to 1985. One of the intellectual delights of working with Jane was that she had an unusual educational background. I recall vividly that, instead of a predictable background in computer science, she brought an education in zoology and biology. Her undergraduate zoology degree was from the University ...

The Internet has raised student plagiarism to a new level. Never before has access to information been as easy, and never before have students had such a capacity to search, order, borrow, copy, cut and paste. This paper offers a critical perspective on current practices that deal with student plagiarism, while placing the issue into the context of current Internet culture. As cyber-plagiarism ...

Jane Maienschein is the daughter of Joyce Kylander [5] and Fred Maienschein [6], and was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on 23 September 1950. She attended MIT as a freshman and then transferred to Yale University [7] in 1969 when Yale decided to admit women undergraduates. In 1972 she graduated with an honors degree in History, the Arts, and Letters having written a thesis on the history of scie...