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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 Universities Rankings so far, it is a testament to the success of China’s investment in its higher ed...

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 the Chinese government -- omissions, or in federal prosecutors’ view, deliberate concealments tha...

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 directs a nanotechnology laboratory and a solid-state solar thermal energy centre at MIT, was taken into c...

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 reporting that Chen, the director of the MIT Pappalardo Micro/Nano Engineering Laboratory and director of th...

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 People's Republic of China (PRC) to the U.S. Department of Energy, announced Ramsey Covington, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation in Boston. Gang Chen was indicted on two counts of wire fraud, one count of failing to file a foreign bank account report (FBAR) and one count of making a false statement in a tax...