Anming Hu outside the courthouse in Knoxville, Tennessee, where his trial was held in June. Credit: Caitie McMekin/USA Today Network Faculty leaders at the University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville, are mounting a campaign to rehire a nanotechnology researcher who lost his job after the US government accused him of hiding his links to a university in China. Anming Hu, formerly a tenured professor, was acquitted of the charges by a judge on 9 September. The case is part of US ...