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The United States Department of Education Office of the General Counsel<\/a> launched a federal foreign funding investigation into the University of Michigan Tuesday, according to a press release<\/a>. The DOE claims the University has failed to accurately and fully disclose the origins of funding originating from foreign institutions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The DOE stipulates the University must submit several documents that record U-M funding within 30 calendar days, including tax records related to foreign funding from Jan. 1, 2020 to the present day; written agreements with each non-U.S. government, non-governmental or educational institution or corporate entity involved in undergraduate and graduate international student admissions; and identification of all U-M undergraduate and graduate research personnel involved in collaborations with non-U.S. institutions.<\/p>\n The launch of the investigation comes after the Federal Bureau of Investigation<\/a> separately charged and arrested two Chinese scholars connected to research at the University for smuggling biological material into the United States. Yunqing Jian, a Chinese student and research fellow specializing in molecular, cellular and developmental biology at the University, and her boyfriend were charged<\/a> June 3 for allegedly carrying dangerous pathogenic material into the U.S. A few days later, Chengxuan Han, a Chinese doctorate student at Huazhong University of Science and Technology<\/a> and visiting scholar at the University, was arrested<\/a> after making false comments about the shipment of material related to the cultivation of roundworms to addresses in the U.S.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n According to Section 117<\/a> of the Higher Education Act of 1965<\/a>, all institutions receiving federal financial assistance must disclose all foreign gifts and funding over $250,000 to the DOE. In the press release, Paul Moore, DOE chief investigative counsel, wrote the University continues to remain vulnerable to potential national security threats and, as a federally funded institution, must be transparent in reporting all foreign funding or gifts.\u00a0<\/p>\n