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Robert Schmuhl is professor emeritus of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame and adjunct professor in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University.

"This is potentially a very valid problem that should not be ignored. They live and breed around the house, so the possibility of Aedes Aegypti being exposed to light pollution is very likely," said Giles Duffield, a researcher in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame.

A manifesto of the Reversalists, and of young conservatives generally, is the 2018 book “Why Liberalism Failed,” by Patrick Deneen, a political-science professor at Notre Dame, which carries a back-cover endorsement from Barack Obama and extolls such writers as Robert B. Reich, Wendell Berry, Christopher Lasch, and Robert Putnam, none of whom is considered conservative.

“We were able to estimate how many people didn’t die because the [particulate matter] concentrations were lower compared to the normal conditions,” said Paola Crippa, the senior author of the study and assistant professor of engineering and civil and environmental engineering and Earth sciences at Notre Dame.

Jeffrey J. Harden is an Andrew J. McKenna Family Associate Professor of Political Science and Concurrent Associate Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Notre Dame.

Clive Neal, a lunar scientist and space-exploration advocate at the University of Notre Dame, has hoped to see more people on the moon since the Apollo 17 astronauts departed 48 years ago. 

The rates at which the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes bite at night may have increased, according to research from the University of Notre Dame that was published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene last week.

Peter Cajka, a historian of U.S. Catholicism at Notre Dame said there will likely be a cultural backlash, in the form of more anti-Francis feeling.

Peter Cajka, a visiting assistant teaching professor at the University of Notre Dame who focuses on Catholic intellectual history, told NCR that the pope's comments continue a trend that has been in motion since the early 20th century of "the church leaving certain big decisions to secular states and no longer trying to say that the Catholic Church should make those moral decisions."

O. Carter Snead, Professor of Law and Director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame is one of the world’s leading experts on public bioethics – the governance of science, medicine, and biotechnology in the name of ethical goods.

What’s more, those biases are then often inflated by others when we form networks of people who share our views, said Daniel Lapsley, professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame.

“The results of the Columbia study are underscored by another recent study published by the University of Chicago and the University of Notre Dame, which found that within the last three months alone, 6 million Americans entered poverty.”

That's one of the findings of a study by economists Jeehoon Han, Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan, who crunched data from the Census Bureau about income and poverty during the coronavirus pandemic.

“We’ve developed a suite of models to argue that rising trade actually generates inflation,” Diego A. Comin of Dartmouth College and Robert Johnson of the University of Notre Dame write in a paper made public on Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research. 

Renee Yaseen, University of Notre Dame, international economics and Arabic.

“Most of Catholic voting history is one of shifting back and forth between the two political parties,” said David Leege, the politics and religion scholar from Notre Dame.

There is no mention of incarcerated individuals in the CARES Act, which some argue makes the IRS position wrong because it “contravenes the clear text” of the Act, according to Patrick Thomas of Notre Dame Law School.

A similar study from the University of Chicago and Notre Dame estimated 6 million Americans entered poverty for the same period.

Robert Schmuhl is professor emeritus of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame and adjunct professor in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University.

"Ratings are often telling indicators of public interest, either politically or in terms of entertainment value. This close to the election, people are looking for illumination or reinforcement," Robert Schmuhl, author of Statecraft and Stagecraft: American Political Life in the Age of Personality and The Glory and the Burden: The American Presidency from FDR to Trump, told Newsweek.