It is extremely important point that you have mentioned about research misconducts. For me as an international students, I should be careful in publications by avoiding falsification and fabrication, as well as other students from other countries because of culture differences.

Thank you for this helpful post.

Interesting bit of history. Seems talent really does transcend wealth and title, as long as the opportunity is given to foster it. The flip side of the coin is when someone has tremendous talent but has never had the opportunity to fully develop and use it. An example is Christopher Langan, someone extraordinarily gifted but was set back by financial and other difficulties. Though this was a few decades back, we still have a long way to go to further grant access to higher education.

Hey Jaclyn.

I appreciate your desire to do something that will help for your final project, and I think your ideas is great.

Recently I saw something about a Chrome extension – or maybe a more generalized app – that takes the fuss out of citations while one writes. I haven’t had time to go investigate it myself, but thought you might be interested.

I don’t recall the particular source, but a quick Google search brought me to the Apogee extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/apogee-citation-creator/biijohdchaffibidhjpipilbdidnpmkm?hl=en-US

P.S. I’d love to see what your project looks like upon completion. And, if you need another pair of eyes to look it over (before April 20) let me know.
Kathryn Culbertson

I definitely agree that copyright law is in a grey area. Even the VT site that the modules linked to tries to simplify the process into a flowchart, but also expresses that the process of determining if you can use something is not an easy decision. You’re definitely right about memes having blurred authorship, too. Especially with all of the remixes on them, it can be very difficult to figure out the source and who should be credited. Luckily, meme creators generally have more pressing concerns than making sure they correctly cite their content, like getting upvotes. Darn reposts…

As far as memes go, I think a lot of people would like to be known for creating a hilarious meme. But, I think most of the time a meme is made because who ever made it thinks it would be funny, and doesn’t think of getting authorship of it.
I’m glad you found the creative commons video helpful.

I always liked the Ritual of the Calling for Canadian engineers. Some universities in the US have the Order of the Engineer, which serves a similar purpose. We still wear a steel ring, though it’s cut differently. The ring is a nice reminder of the importance that engineers serve, and you really can never be reminded frequently enough about the importance of ethics.