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In article <31BFB24C.405F@ix.netcom.com>, Jane Harper <jharper@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>I spent 10 quarters in the PhD program from UC San Francisco.  My 
>adviser and I came to a very contentious parting, and I left UC.  Today 
>I opened the alumni magazine and discover that this former adviser has 
>been funded for a pilot study with exactly the same title as my 
>dissertation proposal!!!
>
>Is this common practice?
>Is it ethical?
>Is it legal?
>
>I'm fit to be tied.
>
>Jane Harper, MS, RN, CCRN

Perhaps I am wrong but I don't see what the problem is...as far as I know when
you are a PhD student, you are working on a project which is part of an
advisor's grant...if you did alot or work on it and that work is published in a
scientific paper, then you should get authorship...however, just because you
worked on it, doesn't mean he can never work on that project again. In fact,
I would imagine that if you left your PhD project and never finished it, so the
thesis was not deposited....that your old lab would continue working on that
project/topic..perhaps giving the work to a new student or PostDoc....and
getting new funding for it. In fact I think even if you had stayed and finished
the dissertation, the lab would continue to pursue the project after you went
on to PostDoc. I would say, based on what I understand from your description,
that this is common practice and very ethical and legal. I also don't
understand why you are "fit to be tied" other than you still have bad feelings
for the advisor...you left the project, and I would imagine in doing so gave up
any claim you might have, or any say in its funding or continuation.

Of course this is only my opinion,
Jen