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Chase Lawhorn, a cybercriminology major from Palestine, Ill., plans to apply to ISU’s master’s degree program in criminology. He is interested in a career in government or the private sector. “I have had the privilege to continue my education without being buried in debt, and I have met some of my best, lifelong friends from my fraternity,” Lawhorn said.
Benett McEwen, a physical education major from Clarksville, Ind., plans to move to Dayton, Ohio, to pursue a master’s degree in Student Affairs in Higher Education from Wright State University. He will also serve as a graduate assistant for Campus Recreation. Indecisive at first, McEwen managed to keep a 4.0 GPA while he went through five majors in three colleges at Indiana State. “It is acceptable to be indecisive in your studies,” he said. “Keep searching until you find what feels right.”
The Justice Department charged a math professor and university researcher, Mingqing Xiao, on Wednesday with wire fraud over allegations that he hid his Chinese government funding while obtaining funding from the National Science Foundation.
The Southern Illinois University-Carbondale professor, Mingqing Xiao, worked in the mathematics department since 2000 and obtained the Chinese funding starting in 2018, the Justice Department said.
China has targeted research throughout the economy from corn growers to cancer researchers. Last year, Dr. Lauer said, more than 90% of the scientists under investigation had received support from China.
Gary Cantrell, Health and Human Services Department deputy inspector general for investigations, cited the example of researcher Song Guo Zheng, who is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty last year to lying on applications for NIH grants totaling $4.1 million that he admitted were used to enhance Chinese expertise in rheumatology and immunology
Mingqing Xiao
BENTON – Mathematics professor Mingqing Xiao of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale concealed his Chinese research while winning an American grant, grand jurors alleged in U.S. district court on April 21.
They indicted him on charges of wire fraud and making a false statement.
Xiao, age 59, resides in Makanda.
The university hired him in 2000.
Grand jurors found his research included partial differential equations, control theory, optimization theory, dynamical systems and computational science.
Xiao is alleged to have received about $180,000 from Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province in 2017, to run from 2018 to 2022.
According to the indictment, he renewed a contract for a monthly salary with Shenzhen University of the same province in April 2018, to run to 2023.
Southern Illinois Professor Charged With Concealing China Ties
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A mathematics professor at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale has been indicted on two counts of wire fraud and one count of making false statements for allegedly failing to disclose Chinese grant funding and his affiliation with a Chinese university on an application for a $151,099 National Science Foundation grant.
The indictment alleges that the professor, Mingqing Xiao, “knowingly and willfully devised and intended to devise a scheme to defraud NSF, and to obtain money and property from NSF, by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises.”
Court records do not list an attorney for Xiao, who did not return an email seeking comment. His case is one of more than a dozen cases involving university-based researchers accused of concealing Chinese funding sources or affiliations on federal grant applications, visa applications or tax forms.
Over 500 U.S. Scientists Under Investigation for Being Compromised by China
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More than 500 U.S. scientists are under investigation for being compromised by China and other foreign countries, according to a recent hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
The hearing was focused on protecting the U.S. s biomedical research from foreign entities such as China. While delivering opening remarks, Senator Patty Murray, chair of the committee, spoke about a recent report from the National Institutes of Health and conflicts of interests among 507 NIH grant recipients. It s important that researchers with foreign affiliations and potential conflicts of interest for example, participation in foreign talent programs or commitments to file patents in, or move laboratories to, foreign nations fully disclose those issues when applying for federal grants, Murray said.