Ohio State Pays $2.1M Over Hidden China Ties, Admits Nothing
A principal investigator hid enrollment in China's Thousand Talents Program from NASA and NSF for four years, 2019 to 2023.
- Ohio State concealed foreign ties in federal grant applications from November 2012 to August 2023.
- Faculty Activity Reports showed Chinese university affiliations as early as 2014, unreported to funders.
- Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate says universities receiving federal money must disclose all foreign funding.
Why it matters: A grant application that hides a foreign patron is fraud, whatever a settlement calls it.
DOJ Office of Public Affairs press release ↗ · Sep 5, 20269/5/26