Four University of Florida faculty members have either resigned or been fired after an investigation suggested they may have had undisclosed connections to foreign entities, which goes against rules that govern hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of research grant money, according to a published report in the Gainesville Sun.
Three faculty members — two from the College of Engineering and one from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences — resigned, and one part-time College of Medicine faculty member was terminated.
The National Institutes of Health, which in 2019 provided UF with more than $208 million in grant money, first reached out to universities across the nation in August 2018 with a letter that expressed concerns about foreign entities trying to influence U.S. research, the report stated.
Several universities have returned grant money as a result of the disclosure, UF has not done so.
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