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Northwestern University sued over suicide of Chinese-American scientist targeted by the Justice Department. Though she was never charged, Northwestern closed her lab and reassigned her grant funding (www.chicagotribune.com)
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[–] tad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is the part that gets me too. Not sure how they were able to do that without the family’s knowledge.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

Universities in the US are real weird. The big ones even have their own private police.