University Pays $700,000 to Settle With NASA Over Professor’s Undisclosed Ties to China

The professor participated in China’s Thousand Talents Program while the NASA grant was active.

The NASA logo is displayed at the Earth Information Center exhibit at NASA headquarters in Washington on June 21, 2023. Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

The University of Delaware on Dec. 16 settled with NASA after allegedly failing to disclose a professor’s ties to and support from the Chinese regime.

In 2020, NASA awarded the university a grant to establish a research center focused on the use of satellites to collect weather, climate, and ocean data, to better understand how sea-level rise affects U.S. coastlines.