Neri oxman and her husband

Remember Professor Neri Oxman? She is the beautiful MIT professor who captured Brad Pitt’s heart last year. Brad’s team spent two full months going on and on about how Brad had fallen hard for Neri Oxman and how she is so much prettier, smarter and cooler than Angelina Jolie. By May of last year, the stories just went away as everyone realized that Professor Oxman was still dating her longtime billionaire boyfriend William Ackman. By October, she gave an interview to the NY Times about her work, and mentioned Brad Pitt as an aside, saying that they weren’t dating. The whole thing was so random and forced. And this makes it seem even more so: not only was Professor Oxman with William Ackman the whole time, they’re now married and expecting a child together. From the NYT announcement:

Neri Oxman and William Albert Ackman were married Jan. 19 at Central Synagogue in New York. Rabbi Angela Buchdahl performed the ceremony. The bride’s first marriage ended in divorce, as did the groom’s.

Mr. Ackman eventually reached out that summer, and they began a conversation that led to a first date in September , at a restaurant in Cambridge, Mass.

“She was everything they had described her to be,” Mr. Ackman said. “I knew in about five seconds that she was perfect for me.” They began dating immediately, and it wasn’t long before she was feeling much the same about him.

“Bill inspires me to assume a bigger identity, to grow while being grounded, but not without asking me the hard questions,” said Ms. Oxman, who cited their many things in common. “We both appreciate the expansiveness of life, love and living associated with cultivating, building, sharing and inspiring a creative life,” she said, “one that transcends the often-prescribed categories of family and work and unites them into synergy. We both believe in the notion that what we do is not a job or a career, it is a calling. We both believe that gratitude is a skill. We believe in human expression. We work hard. We

In the aftermath of former Harvard President Claudine Gay's resignation amidst nearly fifty reports of plagiarism, a target has been placed on the back of the wife of a strong advocate for Gay's ousting. 

Business Insider had launched an investigation into billionaire Bill Ackman's wife, Neri Oxman, accusing her of plagiarizing sections of her doctoral dissertation; Oxman denies plagiarizing but admits omitting quotation marks despite proper citations.

The article takes a deep dive into Oxman's work, knit-picking instances where she failed to include quotation marks around borrowed passages - despite providing the  proper references - in a desperate attempt to prove that the American-Israeli designer violated MIT's academic-integrity standards. 

The report highlights multiple instances of alleged plagiarism by Oxman, who became a tenured professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in , where Oxman clearly states the authors' names as references. 

Comparatively, Gay, the former president of one of the top elite universities in the world, was hit with another six accusations of plagiarism just last week, bringing the total number of copying claims to nearly

Business insider claimed their analysis proved Oxman plagiarized multiple paragraphs of her doctoral dissertation, including at least one passage directly lifted from other writers without citation. 

Oxman responded to the brazen allegations against her, admitting errors in omitting quotation marks but asserting proper crediting through references.

'I was forwarded an email this morning from a reporter at Business Insider who noted that there are four paragraphs in my page PhD dissertation: "Material-based Design Computation," which I completed at MIT in ,' sh

Israeli-American designer and academic (born )

Neri Oxman (Hebrew: נרי אוקסמן; born February 6, ) is an Israeli-American designer and former professor known for art that combines design, biology, computing, and materials engineering. She coined the phrase "material ecology" to define her work.

Oxman was a professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MITMedia Lab, where she founded and led the Mediated Matter research group. She has had exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Boston's Museum of Science, SFMOMA, and the Centre Pompidou, which have her works in their permanent collections.

Many of Oxman's projects use new platforms and techniques for 3D printing and fabrication, often incorporating nature and biology. They include co-fabrication systems for building hybrid structures with silkworms, bees, and ants; a water-based fabrication platform that built structures such as Aguahoja out of chitosan; and the first 3D printer for optically transparent glass. Other projects include printed clothing, wearables, and furniture.

Early life and education

Neri Oxman was born in Haifa, Israel, the daughter of architecture professors Robert and Rivka Oxman. Her sister Keren is an artist. Oxman grew up in Israel, spending time in her parents' architecture studio and at her grandmother's house.

After graduating from the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa in , she served for three years in the Israeli Air Force, reaching the rank of first lieutenant. Following her military service, she attended Hebrew University's Hadassah Medical School for two years before switching to architecture. She began her architectural studies at Technion Israel Institute of Technology and finished her degree at the Architectural Association School of Architect