Brown University president Christina Paxson, an economist, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

A pair of slavery shackles of the type used to transport captured Africans to slavery in the Americas is on display at the John Hay Library. The shackles, on loan from the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, will remain at the Hay through March 13, 2016, and then return to Liverpool for permanent display.