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BioSolar begins development of high-energy anode technology

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The lead inventors of the cathode technology are UCSB professor Dr. Alan Heeger, the recipient of a Nobel Prize in 2000 for the discovery and development of conductive polymers, and Dr. David Vonlanthen, a project scientist and energy storage expert at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).).

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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

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This is not to say there is not going to be intense personal and economic pain faced by tens of thousands of workers across multiple industries during the transition to EVs at scale. North Carolina has provided $1.2 Tennessee provided Ford $884 million in incentives to locate in the state, while Kentucky provided $250 million.

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John Brooks Slaughter: Courageous Advocate for Diversity in STEM

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If the phrase “lift as we climb” were a person, chances are good he would be John Brooks Slaughter. I visited schools in Mississippi, North Carolina, and Georgia, and I established relationships with some of the scientists at Howard University ,” an HBCU in Washington, D.C.