By Elizabeth Redden. A federal jury found Brendt Christensen guilty in the 2017 kidnapping and murder of Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang, the Chicago Tribune reported. Christensen was a former graduate student and Zhang was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. A senior official at the National Institutes of Health said that the number of cases in which universities have fired faculty due to alleged violations of NIH rules exceeds the five cases that are publicly known, and said universities have repaid the agency "hundreds of thousands of dollars" in grant money as a result of the violations, according to Science Insider. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to take up the question of whether the Trump administration acted legally in trying to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a program established by the Obama administration that shields certain undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation and also provides an avenue through which they can legally work. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. The defense attorney for a former University of Illinois graduate student accused of killing a visiting scholar from China in April 2017 admitted his client’s guilt as the trial started on Wednesday, the Chicago Tribune reported. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. The Department of Education has opened an investigation into whether Georgetown and Texas A&M Universities have fully disclosed foreign gifts and contracts they have with foreign entities to the federal government, the Associated Press reported. More...

By Doug Lederman. An Ohio judge on Thursday reduced to $25 million the amount that Oberlin College is required to pay a local bakery, the Associated Press reported, down from the $44 million that a jury awarded the bakery last month after finding that the college and its officials had libeled the business and its owners when students held protests of the bakery. More...

By Doug Lederman. The man arrested this week in last month's disappearance and death of a University of Utah student was prohibited from the campus of Utah State University in 2012, the Associated Press reported. More...