Betar Gallant uses electrochemistry to develop higher-energy batteries for electric vehicles. “When you’re buying a car nowadays, if it’s an electric vehicle, you’re largely buying the battery,” she says. “The battery is really everything.” Full story
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Almitra (Sidhwa) Patel ’58, SM ’59 was the first woman from India to earn an engineering degree from MIT. She spent 31 years in industry, then became one of India’s leading environmental activists.
The Boston Globe noted that MIT was named the No. 2 national university by U.S. News & World Report. It “led the pack of undergraduate engineering programs,” the Globe wrote, and was also “recognized for its undergraduate business program, coming in at No. 2.”
A new system makes models like DALL-E 2 — an artificial intelligence-based image generator — more creative. CSAIL researchers developed the new method, which uses multiple models to create more complex images with better understanding.
MIT has accelerated its efforts toward its carbon reduction goals. “We’re taking comprehensive steps to address our carbon footprint,” Glen Shor says. “Reducing our emissions to zero will be challenging, but it’s the right aspiration.”
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