Code of Ethics
The purpose of the ethical code (hereinafter: Code) is to present the Graduate School students and Postdoctoral Fellows with the criteria they are expected to behave according to; accustom them to ethical responsibility and the highest possible standards of academic integrity and proper behavior in general; develop a sense of responsibility; bring about their active participation in upholding such standards, and to encourage an environment of mutual trust and respect. It is the joint responsibility of all the School’s graduate students and Postdoctoral Fellows to fulfill this aim. Devotion to high ethical standards, academic honesty and rules of conduct, will enhance the quality of education provided by the Feinberg Graduate School, and promote the prestige of the degrees it awards. Any failure to fulfill the rules of the Code will result in disciplinary measures by the FGS. It should be noted that inappropriate behavior excludes mistakes made in all innocence, those due to negligence, and differences of opinion.

Standards

1.	Feinberg Graduate School students and Postdoctoral Fellows will present and indicate their academic achievements honestly and fairly, whether orally or in writing. They will not knowingly deceptively represent essential facts to other students, academic staff, other university employees, potential employers, or any other person, and will not knowingly hide information, or act deviously, in order to obtain benefits from FGS or in connection with their studies at the School.
2.	Feinberg Graduate School students and Postdoctoral Fellows will respect materials, experimental data and property, both of the Weizmann Institute and of other students. They will not make wrongful or unfair use of materials, data or other property of the FGS, WIS or another student, particularly not by obtaining access or removing information or other property, and will not make commercial or other use for profit of the materials, whether from the website or software purchased by WIS for the sole purpose of study.
3.	Feinberg Graduate School students and Postdoctoral Fellows will respect the individual rights, health and safety of others, and their possessions.

Academic Integrity
The Weizmann Institute of Science, and the Feinberg Graduate School as an integral part of it, constitutes a scientific community with the pursuit of knowledge being its central aspiration. Responsibility to the rules of academic integrity is essential to the success of this scientific endeavor. Every FGS student and Postdoctoral Fellow is responsible for constantly maintaining the highest standards of integrity and devotion to the rules of the Code hereinafter. Actions influencing, or intended to have influence on, the education, research, acquisition of knowledge, or fair evaluation of a FGS student’s or Postgraduate Fellow’s performance are utterly forbidden. Such actions include, but are not limited, to the following:

Cheating: Use, or the attempted use of, help, materials or study aids prohibited for use in a particular examination or other academic paper; or preventing others from using permitted help, materials or study aids.

Plagiarism: Use of another person’s ideas, data or language, without appropriate specific acknowledgement.

Forgery: Submission of false or altered information in an academic or research paper.

Multiple submissions: Submission, without prior permission, of a piece of work that has already been submitted in fulfillment of a different academic requirement.

Falsification of academic records: Falsification or alteration or an attempt to alter any part of a student’s transcription or academic records, whether before or after the student’s arrival at the Graduate School.

Aiding academic fraud: Knowingly helping, or attempting to help, someone else violate any of the Code’s stipulations.

In a case that a student is unsure whether his or her actions constitute a violation of the Code of Academic Integrity, they are responsible for consulting with their tutor, or with the FGS staff, to clarify the issue.

Rules of behavior
Feinberg Graduate School students and Postdoctoral Fellows will behave in accordance with the reputation of the WIS, the FGS, and the students themselves, and follow the directives of the WIS and FGS authorities, teaching faculty and/or other employees issued in the course of their duties; they will act in accordance with the rules and regulations concerning the use of WIS facilities including halls, laboratories, libraries, student dormitories, apartments, offices, sports facilities, parking lots and open spaces. Similarly the students and Postdoctoral Fellows will not disrupt the lectures, research, work, or any other activity within the School or the grounds of the WIS; will not cause harm to lecturers, or other staff or students of the FGS or WIS, their reputation, or possessions; will not damage any property belonging to the FGS or WIS or belongings used by them.

Disciplinary measures

1.	Violation of the ethical code will bring about disciplinary measures.
2.	In the event of a violation of the ethical code by a Graduate School student, the student will be eligible to appear before the FGS’s disciplinary committee (see hereinafter) to defend his case concerning the complaints brought against him.
3.	The disciplinary committee will decide on each case individually, and may take disciplinary steps against a student who violates the Code – starting with a reprimand; disqualification of an assignment or examination; cancellation or freezing the student’s right to use his or her individual travel allowance; and ending with suspension or expulsion from the FGS.
4.	Students, whom the Disciplinary Committee has decided to suspend or expel from the Graduate School, may appeal before the School’s Appeals Committee (see hereinafter).
5.	A Postdoctoral Fellow whose Fellowship the Disciplinary Committee has decided to terminate, will be given the right of appeal before the Head of the Program before the disciplinary committee’s final decision.

Disciplinary Committee
The Graduate School’s Disciplinary Committee will comprise three members:

1.	A member of the Board of Studies (Chair of the committee)
2.	An additional scientist from the Institute’s Faculty
3.	The Academic Secretary of the Graduate School

The committee may consult with anyone they see fit before submitting its recommendation to the Dean.

Appeals Committee
The Graduate School’s appeals committee will comprise four members:

1.	The Dean of the School (Chair of the Committee)
2.	The Chair of the Board of Studies
3.	An additional scientist from the Institute’s faculty
4.	A representative from The Student and Fellows’ Council

In the case of an appeal presented by a Postdoctoral Fellow, the Chair of the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (who will also be Chair of the Committee) will replace the Dean of the School.

Commissioner of Complaints

1.	The Commissioner of Complaints will be the Chair of the Weizmann Institute of Science Scientific Council, or his representative (hereinafter: the Commissioner).
2.	A full-time student or Postdoctoral Fellow who feels that his or her rights to proper and fair proceedings have been compromised, according to the Students' Rights Law 5767-2007, may submit a complaint to the Commissioner who will examine it and respond to the complainer.
3.	The Commissioner has the right to check whether the disciplinary proceedings the student complained about were proper and fair and to submit his or her recommendations concerning the complaint to the FGS Dean.