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SHARE Universities in emerging economies are improving at a faster rate than universities from developed countries, according to results from the 2021 Times Higher Education rankings. This stellar performance is being driven by institutions from Pakistan, Russia and China, the latter accounting for an unprecedented clean sweep of the top five positions. China’s Tsinghua University topped the pile for the fourth consecutive year, for added kudos. "In the most competitive Emerging Economies Uni...

Image from a Department of Justice website. On Jan. 14, with less than a week to go in the Trump administration, federal agents arrested a prominent mechanical engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gang Chen. Chen, prosecutors alleged, failed to disclose on a federal grant application various financial ties and affiliations with Chinese entities, including his participation in Chinese government talent programs and his service as an expert scientific consultant to...

By Rebecca Trager2021-01-28T14:30:00+00:00 Source: © MIT The colleagues of MIT nanotechnologist Gang Chen have rallied around him, rebutting the charges against him in a letter to the institute’s president More than 100 faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have signed a letter to their university’s president, Rafael Reif, attacking the arrest of one of its nanotechnology professors for failing to report his ties to the Chinese government. Gang Chen, who direct...

MIT faculty defend professor against trumped-up charges related to China ties In a letter to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) President L. Rafael Reif, a draft of which was posted to Twitter, 100 MIT faculty members issued a resounding defense of their colleague, Professor Gang Chen, who was indicted last week on charges of wire fraud and tax violations and failing to disclose financial ties to China. The Massachusetts US Attorney’s Office issued a press release January 20 reportin...

Boston — A professor and researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in connection with failing to disclose contracts, appointments and awards from various entities in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) to the U.S. Department of Energy, announced Ramsey Covington, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Services Criminal Investigation in Boston. Gang Chen was indicted on two counts of wire fraud, one count of faili...

1.Requirements Candidate of national-level talent programs，tenured professor or associate professor of overseas well-known universities or research institutions, leading talent with internationally recognized achievements. 2.Support Policies Research funds：will be discuss case by case. Group support:  At least 1 PhD student per year and unlimited numbers of post-doctoral fellows in support. Self-determination of hiring research assistant professors (RAPs) with competitive research funding...

The head of an MIT nanoengineering lab who worked at the university for decades is accused of grant fraud and faces up to 30 years in jail

Washington [US], January 15 (ANI): A professor and researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been charged for failing to disclose contracts, appointments and awards from entities in China to the US Department of Energy.

A professor and researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been charged for failing to disclose contracts, appointments and awards from e

English By VOA News Share on Facebook U.S. authorities have arrested and charged an MIT professor with accepting foreign money, much of it from China, and not disclosing it. Gang Chen was arrested Thursday at his home and charged with wire fraud, failing to file a foreign bank account report and making a false statement in a tax return, the Department of Justice said in a news release. Chen worked as director of the MIT Pappalardo Micro/Nano Enginee...