The National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, and other federal funding agencies are beginning to prohibit sponsored research personnel from participating in Malign Foreign Talent Recruitment Programs (MFTRPs), as required by the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. But not all foreign talent recruitment programs are malign.  NDSU Policy 152.3Foreign Talent Recruitment Programs prohibits covered individuals (those contributing in a substantive, meaningful way to the scientific development  or execution of a federal research project) from participating in a MFTRP.  In addition, any participation in a foreign talent recruitment program must be disclosed to the university as part of your COI disclosure and to the funding agency as part of your Current/pending or other support form or Biosketch.

Learn how to determine if an arrangement would be considered a Malign Foreign Talent Recruitment Program.