charles lieber, chinese espionage, education, fbi, gang chen, harvard, professor

FBI Arrests MIT Professor for Hiding China Links

The FBI arrested a professor at one of America’s top universities for hiding China links over his work for the Chinese communist government. Gang Chen, 56, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was arrested by federal agents and charged with grant fraud on January 14, according to a U.S. Department of Justice ...

Rory Karsten

FBI emblem on the J. Edgar Hoover building in Washington, DC.

Harvard Chinese Scholar Pleads Guilty to Stealing Biological Samples

On December 3, Zaosong Zheng, a Harvard Chinese scholar and former researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) affiliated with Harvard University, pleaded guilty in U.S. Federal court in Boston to lying to customs officials about stealing 21 biological research samples. In his guilty plea, Zheng agreed to leave the U.S. after a sentencing ...

Michael Segarty

A judge's gavel.

Unaccounted Foreign Money: Yale and Harvard Under Investigation

The U.S. Department of Education (DoED) has started an investigation into Harvard and Yale for not reporting the millions of dollars in foreign contracts and foreign money they received over several years. U.S. federal law mandates that universities and colleges report all the contracts and foreign money they receive from foreign sources that are in ...

Jack Roberts

Harvard University.

Harvard’s First Chinese Instructor Taught Chinese Culture

Ko K’un-hua was born in the 18th year of Emperor Daoguang’s reign (Qing Dynasty) in 1838 in Anhui Province. During his teenage years, he became famous after passing the county examination to become a scholar. He became an aide to General Huang Kaibang and later served in the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai. Later, Ko K’un-hua ...

Helen London

Ko K’un-hua.