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Northwestern University proposed an unprecedented series of community benefits in a draft agreement submitted to the City of Evanston, committing $100 million in support of city services and programs that will benefit all Evanstonians.

A new staging of a classic opera and a master class led by Grammy Award-winning American soprano Christine Brewer are among the highlights of the fall voice and opera season at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music

Northwestern University researchers analysed the political participation of more than 2,000 individuals included in the Forbes World’s Billionaires List.

In a new Northwestern University study, scientists show that new synthetic melanin, mimicking the natural melanin in human skin, can be applied topically to injured skin, where it accelerates wound healing.

Five years since the retraction of the Trump-era zero-tolerance policy on illegal border crossings, a task force is still attempting to reunify and account for separated families. Northwestern University researchers have written a commentary explaining that complications have arisen because of inconsistencies in data used to track families down, resulting in separated families falling through the cracks.

Someone or some group distributed fake copies of the University’s independent, student-run newspaper, The Daily Northwestern, across the Evanston campus. The fake newspaper included images and language about Israel that many in our community found offensive. The student newspaper, which is a separate entity from the University, is looking into the issue.

A new survey conducted by Northwestern University's Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy (CSDD) and in collaboration with NORC at the University of Chicago has revealed that the city of Evanston's historic reparations program garners widespread approval and support across every ethnic and racial demographic group within the city and across all nine of the city’s nine political wards.

The views represented in the statement issued by a group of faculty members in Education City, Qatar, earlier today do not represent the views of Northwestern University. We mourn the loss of life throughout the region. Our students, faculty and staff at NU-Qatar — many of whom have already lost loved ones — remain in our hearts and minds.

Award-winning author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates will deliver the commencement address for the Northwestern Prison Education Program. This graduation marks the first time incarcerated students in the United States will be conferred a bachelor’s degree from a top 10 university.

By analyzing tiny lunar crystals gathered by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972, researchers recalculated the age of the Earth’s Moon. Although previous assessments estimated the Moon as 4.425 billion years old, the new study discovered it is actually 4.46 billion years old — 40 million years older than previously thought.