He discovers that there’s academic fraud going on when a researcher on a committee claims to have found a novel way to have done something…only she’s describing my husband’s research.
This is a huge no-no. The committee members are supposed to vet viability of ideas, and explicitly instructed not to claim these ideas as their own.
Also, imagine how pissed off his OWN professor was. Like she was ultimately going to get the credit for this because he’s in her lab.