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Dollars for Profs

The Lucrative World of Academic Moonlighting

Professors’ outside income can influence their research topics and findings, policy views and legislative testimony. But these conflicts of interest have largely stayed hidden — until now.

The Trump Administration Drove Him Back to China, Where He Invented a Fast Coronavirus Test

by David Armstrong, Annie Waldman and Daniel Golden,

Use This Tool to Find Potential Conflicts of Interest at Public Universities. We Did.

by Haru Coryne,

Reporting Recipe: How to Investigate Professors’ Conflicts of Interest

by Annie Waldman,

Federally Funded Health Researchers Disclose at Least $188 Million in Conflicts of Interest. Can You Trust Their Findings?

by David Armstrong and Annie Waldman,

Dollars for Profs: Search Conflicts of Interest

by Sisi Wei, Annie Waldman and David Armstrong,

We Asked Public Universities for Their Professors’ Conflicts of Interest — and Got the Runaround

by Annie Waldman and David Armstrong,

Help Us Report On Conflicts of Interest at Universities

by Annie Waldman and David Armstrong,

Medical Professors Are Supposed to Share Their Outside Income With the University of California. But Many Don’t.

by Annie Waldman,