Stanford University has agreed to pay out $1.9 million to the federal government over allegations it violated the False Claims Act by failing to disclose foreign sources of funding for members of its faculty.
The California university is alleged to have submitted erroneous filings that did not identify all of the sources of funding for 12 faculty members over the course of 16 different federal grant applications from 2015 to 2020. Stanford University applied for grants through the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Each of the five government agencies requires grant applicants to disclose their current and pending funding sources.
