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The Biden administration hopes to use generous tax credits to boost electric-vehicle sales and push automakers away from Chinese suppliers. A key material in EV batteries shows why it is proving hard to do both at once. A 2022 law that President Biden championed revamped a $7,500 tax credit for consumers who buy electric vehicles. Among the new rules, the law stipulated that the credits can’t go toward buying any EVs containing battery parts from a “foreign entity of concern,” which includes China... “I would want to know how any automaker, based on the supply chain they’re working with today, meets these standards in 2025,” said Jay Turner, a professor of environmental studies at Wellesley College who wrote a book about batteries.

Wellesley's Science Complex was an honoree in Interior Design’s 2023 Best of Year Awards.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced the appointment of Antonia Marie De Meo (Wellesley '89) of the United States as Deputy Commissioner-General (Operational Support) of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

Trailer for the film Stamped From the Beginning. Africana studies professor Kellie Carter Jackson joins other leading female academics and activists such as Dr. Angela Davis, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, and Brittany Packnett Cunningham to guide viewers through a searing account of how racist tropes and imagery were developed and enshrined in American culture.

Helena de Bres, professor of philosophy, was a guest on WNYC New York Public Radio's "All of It" podcast to discuss her new book: How to be Multiple: The Philosophy of Twins. 

Africana studies professor Selwyn Cudjoe wrote a review of Rebels at the Gate, a monograph on one of Trinidad and Tobagos' most powerful trade unions, The Oilfields Workers' Trade Union.

Michael and Denise Kellen '68 Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Kellie Carter Jackson, is interviewed in a segment on PBS NewsHour about Vice President Kamala Harris's historic tenure. Story begins at 40:15; Professor Carter Jackson's interview begins at 41:35.

Karen Plaut, Purdue’s executive vice president for research, led a public discussion with President Paula Johnson. This event, Beyond X and Y: Gender Biology and Women’s Health," was part of the Leading the Way interview series run by the Purdue Women’s Global Health.

A new book by Amy Yee (Wellesley '96) follows individuals who have fled Tibet, which has been controlled by China since 1951.