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Unifrax introduces Battery Advisory Board to support SiFAB silicon fiber anode battery technology

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He served as Chief Engineer for Ford’s hybrid technologies during 2003 and was also Chief Engineer for the Ford Escape Hybrid from 1998 to 2003. Dr. Jennifer Rupp, Professor of Electrochemical Materials, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and TU Munich (TUM). Rita Lane, former Vice President of Operations, Apple Inc.,

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MIT team finds lead levels higher in Indian Ocean than northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans

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MIT researchers have discovered that lead concentrations in the Indian Ocean are now higher than in the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific oceans. They are presenting their results this week at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Montreal.

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MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

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Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

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He was an active IEEE volunteer and served as editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation from 1999 to 2003 and of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering from 2003 to 2007. He earned a master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics in 1977 from MIT and a Ph.D. for 37 years.

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From EE to VC: Eileen Tanghal's Journey

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Eileen Tanghal Employer: Black Opal Ventures, New York City Title: Cofounder Education: MIT, London Business School “We want to improve health care accessibility and affordability,” Tanghal says. “To After receiving her MBA in 2003, the company hired her as a junior member of its investment team, and Hauser became one of her mentors.

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Pellion Technologies leveraging high throughput computational materials design to make progress on Mg-ion rechargeable batteries

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Persson is also a co-founder of Pellion Technologies—an MIT spin-off co-founded by Dr. Gerbrand Ceder, funded by Vinod Khosla, and recipient of an ARPA-E grant ( earlier post ) that is developing a magnesium-ion (Mg-ion) rechargeable battery.

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New MIT Analysis Finds Global Warming Could Be Double Previous Estimates

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A new comprehensive MIT study of the probabilistic projections of climate change in this century found that absent aggressive intervention, warming will likely be about twice as severe as previously estimated by the MIT model six years ago. This can be compared to a median projected increase in the 2003 study of 2.4 Stone, C.E.

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