Sample Scenario on Fair Credit
For the first year of your graduate studies you worked with Professor
One on the Hot Research project. By the end of the first
year you not only became proficient at many of the more routine tasks
of the project, but made a small but notable refinement to the
approach to the segment assigned to you. At the end of the first year
Professor One went on leave for a semester and you started
working with Professor Two in the same lab but on a very
different project, Professor One returned for the spring
semester and took up the Hot Research project, among others. It is
now autumn and you are beginning your third year. You hear from
another student who was working on Hot Research that Professor
One is publishing a paper on some aspects of Hot Research
with this student, a paper which incorporates your refinement.
What, if anything, can and should you do?
What should you do as a first step in light of any ambiguities in the
situation?
What can you do if those initial efforts fail to achieve the desired
results?
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