US to end case against Gang Chen, MIT scientist accused of hiding ties to China, reports say

Chen sat on an advisory board of the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen. The Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, where Chen was a member of an advisory board. In December, Charles Lieber, ex-chairman of Harvard's chemistry department, was convicted on five counts of tax evasion and failing to report ties to Wuhan University of Technology. Last year Hu Anming, a University of Tennessee professor, was acquitted after a mistrial, and prosecutors have dropped charges against six other researchers. The initiative has had a chilling effect on universities, which tend to publish their research openly and thrive on cross-border cooperation. Asian-American groups have called on universities to adopt a more unified stance toward scientists accused under the initiative. In its latest bid to spur vigilance in academia, the FBI has scheduled a symposium next month with university presidents, chancellors, provosts and other top officials in the New York area for "Updates on how universities and the US federal government are working together to protect and secure the American research enterprise".