October 2021
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In the News
University of Washington settles DOJ claims of grant fraud

October 12, 2021
AP News

"SEATTLE (AP) — The University of Washington has agreed to pay more than $800,000 to settle Justice Department allegations that a professor submitted false documentation relating to a highly competitive grant.

The grant documents were submitted to the National Science Foundation by Mehmet Sarikaya, a professor in the university’s Materials Science and Engineering Department, according to NSF records and the settlement agreement, which was made public by the Seattle U.S. Attorney’s Office on Tuesday.

The documents misrepresented the involvement of two researchers who in reality were not involved in the work, the university said in an emailed statement."
University offers to rehire professor acquitted of hiding China ties
Supporters of Anming Hu have decried his treatment by the University of Tennessee

October 18, 2021
Science
By Jeffrey Mervis

"The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), has offered to reinstate Anming Hu, a tenured engineering professor acquitted of federal charges that he failed to disclose ties to China on a grant application.

The offer, first reported over the weekend by the Knoxville News Sentinel, is seen as an important step in rebuilding Hu’s career, which was shattered after becoming a target of a U.S. government initiative against China that has ensnared dozens of academic scientists. Several outside groups have urged the university to reinstate Hu, whose case was the first to go to trial under the Department of Justice’s 3-year-old China Initiative."
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