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Former UW-Madison researcher guilty of misconduct

In a rare criminal prosecution for research misconduct, a former University of Wisconsin-Madison genetics researcher pleaded guilty Friday to submitting false data to the federal government. Elizabeth Goodwin of Upton, Mass., pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement, admitting she included false data in a progress report to convince federal reviewers that her lab had made more progress than was actually the case.