APA Justice site for Dr. Hu
For extensive articles and a timeline of Dr. Anming Hu’s case, visit the APA Justice website. https://www.apajustice.org/anming-hu.html
For extensive articles and a timeline of Dr. Anming Hu’s case, visit the APA Justice website. https://www.apajustice.org/anming-hu.html
Key faculty leaders at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville are calling on the university to rehire a former professor who was ensnared in a bogus espionage investigation and acquitted in September on fraud-related charges. Anming Hu, a former tenured professor and nanotechnology expert, has been prosecuted twice by the U.S Department of Justice, which falsely accused Hu of being a Chinese spy and charged him with wire fraud and making false statements. A federal judge threw out all charges on Sept. 9. https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/education/2021/10/03/university-of-tennessee-faculty-demand-school-reinstate-anming-hu-after-acquittal/5890443001/
The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has offered to rehire Dr. Anming Hu, an engineering professor who was recently acquitted of federal charges, which wrongly accused him of hiding a relationship with a Chinese university while receiving NASA research grants. https://www.diverseeducation.com/faculty-staff/article/15279928/university-of-tennessee-offers-to-reinstate-professor-acquitted-of-china-ties
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The University of Tennessee is in talks to reinstate a former professor and researcher who was cleared of charges he ran a scheme to hide his ties to a Chinese university while doing contract work for NASA, documents show. https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/ut-in-talks-to-reinstate-professor-cleared-of-hiding-ties-to-chinese-university/51-b818c272-742a-401a-9e83-36f2e2ff0e95
Anming Hu was acquitted in court prosecution under Trump crackdown on academic scientists with China ties. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/tennessee-offers-rehire-engineer-cleared-china-trial
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, offered to reinstate a former tenured professor who was acquitted of fraud-related charges, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported. Faculty members had called for the reinstatement of the professor, Anming Hu, who was terminated from the university after being charged with fraud-related crimes under the auspices of the Department of Justice’s controversial China Initiative for allegedly concealing his affiliation with a Chinese university from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which funded Hu’s research. https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2021/10/18/ut-knoxville-offers-reinstate-acquitted-professor
Faculty members at the University of Tennessee Knoxville are demanding that nanotechnologist Anming Hu get his job back. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02603-6
Professor with ties to China acquitted A federal judge on Thursday threw out all charges against a University of Tennessee professor accused of hiding his relationship with a Chinese university while receiving research grants from NASA. Anming Hu was arrested in February 2020 and charged with three counts of wire fraud and three counts of making false statements. The arrest was part of a broader Justice Department crackdown under President Donald Trump’s administration against university researchers who conceal their ties to Chinese institutions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/tennessee-professor-with-ties-to-china-acquitted-by-district-judge/2021/09/10/30d32e74-0c64-11ec-aea1-42a8138f132a_story.html
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A University of Tennessee engineering professor has been acquitted of charges that alleged he hid his ties with a Chinese university from the federal government. Anming Hu, 51, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering at UTK, was acquitted Thursday of all six charges against him, three counts of wire fraud and three counts of making false statements. https://www.wate.com/news/local-news/ut-engineering-professor-acquitted-of-wire-fraud-false-statement-charges/
The Justice Department is taking another shot at prosecuting a former University of Tennessee professor whose career and reputation were ruined by a false spy claim leveled by the previous administration. Assistant U.S. Attorney Casey Arrowood has filed a one-page notice in U.S. District Court in Knoxville that the Justice Department intends to try — for the second time — Dr. Anming Hu on fraud charges the agency brought under the Trump administration after falsely accusing the nanotechnology expert of being a spy for the Chinese military. https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2021/08/02/tennessee-professor-anming-hu-accused-spying-faces-second-trial/5457371001/