{"id":45495,"date":"2026-08-15T00:28:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=45495"},"modified":"2026-08-15T00:28:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:28:42","slug":"jason-arday-ex-cambridge-professor-accused-of-plagiarism-found-dead-in-uk-week-after-investigation-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=45495","title":{"rendered":"Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism, found dead in UK week after investigation launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<p>Embattled Cambridge University professor Jason Arday was found dead Friday after quitting his job at the school over allegations that he <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/04\/world-news\/cambridge-prof-accused-of-plagiarism-made-up-jobs-at-2-other-universities-report\/\">plagiarized and lied on his resume<\/a>, according to a report Friday<\/p>\n<p>Arday, 41 \u2014 the youngest ever black professor at the lauded university \u2014 was found \u201cunresponsive\u201d\u00a0 in south London and later pronounced dead at the scene, according to the UK Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSadly, a 41-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. 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The case is being investigated by officers from the Met\u2019s Central South Command Unit. A file will be prepared for the coroner.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The sociology professor, who became a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/10\/opinion\/plagiarist-prof-jason-ardays-life-story-is-published-tomorrow-and-it-gets-more-unbelievable-by-the-page\/\">posterboy for diversity,<\/a>\u00a0 resigned from the job\u00a0 on Aug 5 as the school launched an investigation into accusations that he plagiarized parts of his Ph.D dissertation and lied about positions he held at other schools.<\/p>\n<p>He cited\u00a0an \u201cunrelenting level of public scrutiny\u201d as his <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/05\/us-news\/cambridge-professor-jason-arday-accused-of-plagiarism-resigns\/\">reason for resigning.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embattled Cambridge University professor Jason Arday was found dead Friday after quitting his job at the school over allegations that he plagiarized and lied on his resume, according to a report Friday Arday, 41 \u2014 the youngest ever black professor at the lauded university \u2014 was found \u201cunresponsive\u201d\u00a0 in south London and later pronounced dead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/crop-40345683.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-hub"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}