Ever since FDR's tenure, the U.S. government has periodically questioned, and then affirmed, its hands-off approach to American universities. China's rise changed all that.
On January 20, 2021 — almost one year exactly after the high-profile arrest of Harvard University’s Charles Lieber — the Department of Justice announced the indictment of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor, this time rocking the PhDs on the other end of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Gang Chen, a tenured mechanical engineering professor at MIT, was accused, among other things, of failing to disclose $19 million that he had received from a Chinese university.MIT sai
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