Test of emergency alert system is tomorrow

To ensure Northwestern can quickly and effectively warn students, faculty, staff and visitors about an immediate or imminent threat on campus, the University will send an AlertNU message at 10 a.m. tomorrow, Oct. 26, through Rave, its emergency notification system.

Members of the University community are urged to take a moment to verify and update contact information in myHR or CAESAR.

Overwhelming support for Evanston reparations, survey finds

A new survey conducted by Northwestern reveals 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 political wards.
Learn more about the survey.

First fully automated supernova detection

Developed by an international collaboration led by Northwestern, a new artificial intelligence system automates the entire search for new supernovae across the night sky — effectively removing humans from the process. Read more about the process.

Confessions of a Cockney Temple Dancer: In this one-person show, Shane Shambhu reveals the secret life he kept from friends growing up in East London. Get tickets for shows Thursday through Saturday at the Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts inside Abbott Hall on the Chicago campus.

Upcoming events

Come hear choral gems
Alice Millar Chapel Choir joins with the Choir of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris, at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 27.

Imagine U
Inspired by the childhood of legendary Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, “Frida Libre” continues this weekend.

Hugh Knowles Lecture
At 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 30, scientist Peter Narins will discuss two distantly related Asian frog species that communicate in an ultrasonic range beyond the capacity of human hearing.