US set to drop charges against MIT’s Chen on China research funds

Biden administration promises simplification long sought by research universities

5 January

Jury takes three hours to agree nanoscience expert lied about Wuhan ties to sidestep pressure campaign against binational research partnerships

22 December

Universities see room for reasonable new legal restraints on foreign-funded scientists but fear overreach as final deal comes into shape

20 December

Jury can’t agree on Tennessee associate professor Anming Hu after FBI admits pressure campaign to get him to spy

17 June

Following conviction of Harvard’s Lieber, expected clearing of fellow Cambridge nanotechnology expert fits with broader failures of Trump-led academic prosecutions