The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has launched investigations of Harvard and Yale after it stated both universities apparently failed to report hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign funding, the department announced on Feb. 12.
The investigations come amid heightened scrutiny by federal authorities, including law enforcement, to research funders such as the National Institutes of Health over foreign influence, foreign funding, and academic espionage on college campuses and research institutes—particularly with a focus on China.
