Faculty call for reinstatement of acquitted professor

Image:  Professors at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville are calling for the reinstatement of a former tenured professor who was acquitted this month of fraud-related charges. Anming Hu, a former associate professor in UT Knoxville’s Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, was the first professor to go to trial under the auspices of the Department of Justice’s controversial China Initiative, which was launched by the Trump administration with an ostensible...