University of Illinois professor fired for falsifying data in grant applications


Fei Wang, an associate professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was fired after board members determined that he fabricated and falsified scientific data in grant applications. A tenured biology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was fired Friday, a rare punishment that essentially means a career death sentence in higher education and that has happened only once before at the state's flagship public university.



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