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Biology professor Rebecca Selden has new research that visualizes how fishing communities can change fishing habits to adapt to climate change.

Democrat Emily Randall ’08 won her bid for Washington’s 6th Congressional District, making history as the first woman and openly LGBTQ person elected to represent the district in Congress.

Africana studies professor Kellie Carter Jackson visited Northeastern on October 30 to talk about her newly published book titled “We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance.”

This week’s Boston Globe write up of things to do in and around Boston includes both the new exhibit at Wellesley College’s Davis Museum, RORY MCEWEN: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON NATURE, and the play SOJOURNERS by Mfoniso Udofia ’06, which is now running at the Huntington Theatre.

Ivan Kurilla, a professor at Wellesley College, stated that the draft of Russia’s revised constitution could backfire because it contains no means of protecting citizens from the state, and local committees’ decisions might later become censorship tools.

Professor emeritus Selwyn Cudjoe writes for the Trinidad Daily Express: “It may seem an exaggeration, but the Leader of Our Grief is the most obnoxious leader we have had in our 62 years of independent rule.”

Students collaborate with political science professors to survey the opinions of 18- to 35-year-old voters.

Environmental studies professor Jay Turner writes for The Conversation about America’s battery plant boom. The future of these job-generating gigafactories, many of them in Republican states, writes Turner, could be at risk if the next president tries to wipe out the programs that made them possible.

The engine of American democracy is rusty, sputtering, and no longer able to take us where we want to go, writes Ismar Volić, a mathematician who directs the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy at Wellesley College. It is time to design and build a new one.