MIT faculty rally around colleague arrested for Chinese government links
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Rebecca Trager2021-01-28T14:30:00
Letter to university’s president signed by 170 faculty members debunks charges against nanotechnologist Gang Chen
More than 100 faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have signed a letter to their university’s president, Rafael Reif, attacking the arrest of one of its nanotechnology professors for failing to report his ties to the Chinese government. Gang Chen, who directs a nanotechnology laboratory and a solid-state solar energy centre at MIT, was taken into custody on 14 January and faces several charges, including wire fraud, that together carry a jail sentence of up to 30 years and $750,000 (£550,000) in fines.