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The COVID Pod with Dr. Ashish Jha: Voting, Lockdowns and Case Counts

By Cate Ryan , Emilija Sagaityte , Colleen Cronin and Rahma Ibrahim | October 30

On the eve of Halloween, Dr. Ashish Jha joins The Herald's COVID Pod team to discuss the implications of the Nov. 3 presidential election and how to safely exercise the right to vote. Dr. Jha also touches on the lockdowns occurring in multiple European countries and what that means for the United ...

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Rhode Islanders ramp up mail-in, early voting days ahead of election

By Ben Glickman | October 30

With just four days until Election Day, more than 250,000 Rhode Islanders have already cast their ballots, including more than 136,000 by mail and another 115,000 through early voting, according to official data. According to the data from Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea’s office, voter turnout ...

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Gov. Dukakis on 2020 election: “A new, different and very troubling period in American politics"

By Liza Mullett | October 30

When asked what’s at stake in the 2020 election, former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis said: “Just about everything.” Dukakis — the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts state history and the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee — joined Visiting Professor of the Practice of ...

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Community members share perspectives on Trump, Biden environmental platforms

By Julia Grossman | October 29

Campus opinion, while leaning in support of Democratic Presidential Nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden and his environmental plans, is still divided over which candidate proposes the best path forward in addressing environmental issues. Biden’s environmental proposals Some community members ...

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Students travel home to vote in person despite COVID-19 risk

By Karlos Bautista | October 29

Bryce Blinn ’21, a registered Democrat, knows that his vote in the presidential election is crucial in his home state of Texas, which the nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates as a toss-up. So, to make sure his vote was counted, he took matters into his own hands. Blinn boarded a plane Oct. 27 ...

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Brown College Republicans officially endorse Trump as other conservatives express hesitation

By Liza Mullett | October 29

As a number of prominent Republicans have distanced themselves politically from President Donald Trump ahead of the imminent 2020 election, conservative students at the University are grappling with the decision of whether or not to back their party’s incumbent. Brown College Republicans has endorsed ...

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From Brown to the ballot: Stages of Freedom remembers first Black female vice presidential nominee Charlotta Bass

By Li Goldstein | October 29

As Senator Kamala Harris took the stage at the Democratic National Convention Aug. 19 to formally accept the nomination for vice president, supporters took to Twitter to celebrate a long-overdue milestone. Harris, running on a historic ticket alongside former Vice President Joe Biden for a shot at unseating ...

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Brown community pours donation money into Democratic 2020 campaign, leaves Republicans dry

By Corey Gelb-Bicknell | October 29

Democratic political donations from University employees have increased exponentially since 1992, dwarfing donations to Republicans, which have more or less remained constant, according to data from OpenSecrets. In 1992, 32.5 percent of total political contributions from Brown community members went ...

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1916: The presidential election The Herald got wrong

By Benjamin Pollard | October 29

On the morning of Nov. 8, 1916, the front page of The Herald, in a large print headline, read “Hughes Elected to Presidency; Republicans Carry Both Houses.” The story announced that University alum Charles Evans Hughes 1881 had won the presidential election. But despite The Herald’s proclamation, ...

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Brown plans to welcome students from each class year back in Spring 2021

By Olivia George | October 29

The University plans to offer an in-person residential experience for students from each undergraduate class for the spring semester, though space constraints may limit how many students can return. “Our goal is to allow a larger number of undergraduate students to return to campus, while ensuring ...

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Prominent civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump discusses police violence, systemic racism and action

By Victoria Yin | October 28

On the evening of Oct. 27, renowned civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump delivered a virtual lecture hosted by the Brown Lecture Board to 120 online attendees. Wearing a suit adorned with a deep purple tie and silver eagle lapel pin, Crump explained that he had just left Marcellis Stinnette’s vigil. Stinnette, ...

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Decolonization at Brown, Prof. Neumann present statue changes to UCS

By Jack Borris | October 28

The Undergraduate Council of Students heard from Decolonization at Brown as well as the chair of the University’s Committee on Public Art about DAB’s initiative to replace statues on campus at its general body meeting Wednesday evening. DAB’s proposal, which was originally introduced at the Council’s ...

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Research in Medicine Flash Talks creates online bridge between graduate and medical students

By Marlene Goetz | October 28

Research in Medicine Flash Talks, an initiative to connect medical and graduate students, will take place online this semester due to the coronavirus pandemic. The program, launched by the Graduate Student Council and the Medical Student Senate, allows graduate students to present at the start or ...

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University of Michigan’s Yukiko Yamashita discusses the mechanisms of long-term genomic maintenance

By Henry Dawson | October 28

Elementary schoolers learn that DNA is the instruction manual for life — the immutable blueprints that cells follow to build proteins and stay alive. But DNA is a physical molecule which can change over time. So how do cells, especially the ones which produce offspring, ensure that these blueprints ...

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Eric Wu ’22 remembered as kind, determined and generous soul

By Livia Gimenes | October 27

Frederic Whitney “Eric” Wu ’22, a go-getter with a passion for helping others, passed away in a tragic automobile accident Sept. 23. Eric would now be 21 years old. Eric grew up in Manchester, Vermont and New York City, where he graduated from Saint David’s School. Eric later attended Phillips ...

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Ainissa Ramirez ’90 pens ‘The Alchemy of Us’

By Cate Ryan | October 27

As a student at Brown, Ainissa Ramirez ’90 would spend countless hours studying at her usual spot on the fifth floor of the Sciences Library. Perched five stories above Thayer Street, she would review her engineering or chemistry material until her friends reliably found her and walked her to the ...

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Paxson elected chair of Association of American Universities

By Daniel Goldberg | October 27

Updated at 9:30 p.m. Oct. 27, 2020. President Christina Paxson P’19 was elected chair of the Association of American Universities’ Board of Directors Tuesday, according to an AAU press release. The AAU is composed of 65 research universities dedicated to promoting higher education and academic ...

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Professors share experiences teaching hybrid classes

By Tyler Jacobson | October 26

Shriram Krishnamurthi walked into the Center for Information Technology at 8:30 a.m. to set up the broadcasting system for his first day teaching hybrid classes of the semester. He and technology specialists in the CIT didn’t finish until 9:50 a.m., ten minutes before the start of Krishnamurthi’s ...

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Brown School of Public Health announces Actions to Confront Anti-Black Racism

By Marlene Goetz | October 26

Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the School of Public Health, announced Actions to Confront Anti-Black Racism on Sept. 23, building upon the School’s Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan. The plan includes modifications to increase diversity and inclusivity in research, faculty and staff hiring and public ...

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VP Carey: Brown sees most positive COVID-19 cases ‘in a three day time period to date’

By Marlene Goetz | October 25

Eight University community members tested positive for COVID-19 from Oct. 21 to Oct. 23, the most “in a three day time period to date,” according to an Oct. 24 email from Executive Vice President of Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91. This is also the most positive test results the University ...