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University of Kansas Professor Indicted for Hiding Employment With Chinese University

University of Kansas Professor Indicted for Hiding Employment With Chinese University
A group of students crosses a street in Beijing on June 6, 2019. Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images
Frank Fang
Frank Fang
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A researcher at the University of Kansas was indicted for concealing his full-time role at a Chinese state-run university while doing U.S. government-funded research in the United States.

Feng “Franklin” Tao, 47, an associate professor and researcher at the university’s Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis, was charged with one count of wire fraud and three counts of program fraud, according to a press release by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Frank Fang
Frank Fang
Reporter
Frank Fang is a Taiwan-based journalist. He covers news in China and Taiwan. He holds a Master's degree in materials science from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan.
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