Professor found guilty of passing UAV tech data to foreign students

A jury has convicted a University of Tennessee professor of unlawfully passing technical data on plasma actuators used on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to two postgraduate students, one from China and another from Iran, while he worked on a U.S. Air Force contract. John Reece Roth, 70, was...

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