Apr 30, 2021
Casey Wyllie has been named the head men s basketball coach at Olney Central College. He has served as the interim coach since June when Coach Mike Burris left to take an assistant coaching position at the University of Indianapolis.
“To be named the head coach at Olney Central is an absolute honor, Wyllie said. I am so thankful for the belief that Athletic Director Dennis Conley and President Rodney Ranes have in me. Olney is a special place that has an unbelievable amount of community support. We will continue to build on the foundation that was laid here before us by previous coaches and players.”
Mingqing Xiao
BENTON – Mathematics professor Mingqing Xiao of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale concealed his Chinese research while winning an American grant, grand jurors alleged in U.S. district court on April 21.
They indicted him on charges of wire fraud and making a false statement.
Xiao, age 59, resides in Makanda.
The university hired him in 2000.
Grand jurors found his research included partial differential equations, control theory, optimization theory, dynamical systems and computational science.
Xiao is alleged to have received about $180,000 from Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province in 2017, to run from 2018 to 2022.
According to the indictment, he renewed a contract for a monthly salary with Shenzhen University of the same province in April 2018, to run to 2023.
Southern Illinois Professor Charged With Concealing China Ties
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A mathematics professor at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale has been indicted on two counts of wire fraud and one count of making false statements for allegedly failing to disclose Chinese grant funding and his affiliation with a Chinese university on an application for a $151,099 National Science Foundation grant.
The indictment alleges that the professor, Mingqing Xiao, “knowingly and willfully devised and intended to devise a scheme to defraud NSF, and to obtain money and property from NSF, by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises.”
Court records do not list an attorney for Xiao, who did not return an email seeking comment. His case is one of more than a dozen cases involving university-based researchers accused of concealing Chinese funding sources or affiliations on federal grant applications, visa applications or tax forms.
SIUC professor, researcher charged with grant fraud Mingqing Xiao, an American mathematics professor and researcher Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, was charged on April 21 with wire fraud and one count of making a false statement. (Source: Pablo) By Ashley Smith | April 21, 2021 at 4:34 PM CDT - Updated April 21 at 5:37 PM
CARBONDALE, Ill. (KFVS) - An American mathematics professor and researcher Southern Illinois University in Carbondale was charged on April 21 with wire fraud and one count of making a false statement.
Mingqing Xiao was accused of fraudulently taking $151,099 in federal grant money from the National Science Foundation by hiding the support he was getting from the Chinese government and Shenzhen University, a public university in Guangdong Province in China.
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Tribune-Star/Howard GreningerIn the street: A large crane works Wednesday to set the last sections of a new parking garage for the Terre Haute Convention Center.
Submitted photoTennille Wanner will serve as new general manager for Spectra Venue Management, which will manage the new Terre Haute Convention Center.
Tribune-Star/Howard GreningerMuseum update: Shelly Keen of Terre Haute talks about progress on cataloging memorabilia for a Larry Bird Museum that will be contained in the Terre Haute Convention Center. Keen was hired in February as an independent contractor by the Vigo County Capital Improvement Board. Convention Center starting to take shape