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The New York Times
Mosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress
September 29, 2023
Such largess is unusual — and not a sustainable pathway for vector control research, said John Grieco, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame who coordinates the multicountry spatial repellent trial, which is also running in countries including Mali and Sri Lanka.
OSV News
Writers’ Strike Over As Union Secures Landmark Deal With AI-Related Labor Protections
September 28, 2023
“It’s just the foundational idea that workers must be foregrounded in businesses’ estimation of thinking about their use of labor,” Daniel Graff, director of the Higgins Labor Program at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns, told OSV News. “Workers’ interests and workers’ inherent dignity is something that needs to be considered — and at the same time, the commitment to workers having a voice in the process.”
ND Experts
Center for Social Concerns
Bloomberg
Got Plastic With a No. 2 Recycling Symbol? Beware a Toxic Problem
September 28, 2023
One of the first people she emailed those results to, in the summer of 2020, was Graham Peaslee, a nuclear physicist at the University of Notre Dame who’d pioneered a novel technique for revealing the presence of PFAS in everyday items.
ND Experts
Experimental Nuclear Physics
The Economist
States are becoming more brazen about killing foes abroad
September 27, 2023
Mary Ellen O’Connell of the University of Notre Dame in America argues “there is no grey zone”.
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Notre Dame Law School
The Hill
Cuba, Nicaragua can no longer whitewash their religious freedom violations
September 27, 2023
Last month, the president of the University of Notre Dame, Rev. John Jenkins, said that “Ortega’s attempt to extinguish Catholicism in Nicaragua merits world condemnation on a much larger and louder scale.”
Forbes
Can These College Presidents Help Revive Campus Democratic Discourse?
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September 26, 2023
Participating institutions include Benedict College, Claremont McKenna College, Cornell University, DePauw University, Duke University, James Madison University, Rollins College, Rutgers University, University of Notre Dame, University of Richmond, Wellesley College, Wesleyan University, and University of Pittsburgh.
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The New York Times
Justice Kagan Calls for the Supreme Court to Adopt an Ethics Code
September 25, 2023
In remarks at Notre Dame, the justice also discussed ideological divisions at the court, the role of precedent and a sharp exchange in the recent student loans case.
Politico
Kagan hopes Supreme Court’s ideological divide on precedent isn’t permanent
September 25, 2023
“I surely hope not,” Kagan said during an appearance at the University of Notre Dame law school, when asked if the pattern of conservative justices overruling the court’s prior decisions and liberal justices seeking to preserve them is likely to persist.
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The Hill
Watch live: Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan speaks at Notre Dame Law School
Video
September 25, 2023
Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan is slated to deliver remarks Friday afternoon during a forum hosted by the Notre Dame Law School.
C-SPAN
Justice Elena Kagan Speaks at Notre Dame Law School
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September 25, 2023
Justice Elena Kagan speaks at Notre Dame Law School.
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Bloomberg
Kagan Hopeful for Supreme Court Code Amid Ethics Allegations
September 25, 2023
Adopting a code “would go far in persuading other people that we were adhering to the highest standards of conduct,” Kagan said Friday at Notre Dame Law School.
NBC News
Justice Elena Kagan says Supreme Court ethics code would be 'a good thing'
September 25, 2023
Kagan, in an appearance at Notre Dame Law school, said that signing onto a binding code would help convince the public that "we were adhering to the highest standards of conduct."
CNN
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan talks ethics and her relationship with the chief justice
September 25, 2023
They came as part of wide-ranging remarks that Kagan delivered at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana – where she also explained her side of a dispute of sorts with Chief Justice John Roberts after the majority of the court invalidated President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program last term.
NPR
Bangladesh has been effective at fighting malaria. Can it eliminate the disease?
Audio
September 21, 2023
In the heart of Dhaka, Bangladesh's thronging capital, deep inside a laboratory, Kasturi Haldar stares down the barrel of a microscope.
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Biological Sciences
The Washington Post
Here’s how to actually make friends post-college
September 20, 2023
Darcia Narvaez understands this well. She’s a developmental psychologist who explores how culture and childhood experiences contribute to human flourishing.
ND Experts
Psychology
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CNN
GOP fake electors charged in Georgia try to move case to federal court
September 20, 2023
Derek Muller, an election law expert who teaches at the Notre Dame Law School, said he believes it’ll be a “heavy lift” for their argument to prevail in court.
ND Experts
Dean's Office-Law School
Harper's Magazine
The Tragedy of Volodymyr Zelensky
September 18, 2023
Michael C. Desch is a professor of international relations at the University of Notre Dame.
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Political Science
CNBC
The No. 1 personality trait linked to a long life: ‘The effects of just being positive are overstated,’ psychology expert says
September 17, 2023
While seniors might feel being positive has played a role in their longevity, the relationship between personality and aging is more nuanced, says David Watson, a former professor [professor emeritus] of personality psychology at the University of Notre Dame.
Financial Times
Economists expect Fed to defy investors with more interest rate rises
September 17, 2023
Christiane Baumeister, a professor at the University of Notre Dame, is among those to worry about energy prices after the decision by Saudi Arabia and Russia to cut supply. She expects prices to rise further, potentially bidding up expectations of future inflation as well as delaying the descent in core price growth if companies opt to pass on higher costs to consumers.
ND Experts
Department of Economics
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CNN
Election officials reject calls to unilaterally block Trump from ballot using 14th Amendment but will defer to courts
September 15, 2023
“Many states do not have a law on the books empowering the secretary of state to judge the eligibility of presidential candidates,” said Derek Muller, an election law expert who teaches at the Notre Dame Law School.
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Dean's Office-Law School
ABC News
Some small businesses caught in culture wars face financial woes, employee fears: 'Never been as bad'
September 15, 2023
While the laws primarily address social issues, the measures often place a burden on businesses in related industries that must comply with the new regulations, Michael Morris, a professor at the McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business at the University of Notre Dame, told ABC News.
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McKenna Center for Human Development & Global Business
MSNBC
Congrats on making millions of kids poorer, Congress
September 15, 2023
Taken together, those changes provided a major infusion of cash in the pocket of households that otherwise were struggling to make ends meet. Not long after the stimulus bill passed, researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of Notre Dame used census data to estimate that the child poverty rate had spiked to 17.4% over the course of the pandemic.
Associated Press
Firefighters Fear the Toxic Chemicals in Their Gear Could Be Causing Cancer
September 14, 2023
Cotter sent patches of gear to Graham Peaslee, a University of Notre Dame professor who studies PFAS, for testing.
ND Experts
Experimental Nuclear Physics
The Messenger
OPINION | We Must Reform the US Asylum System — And Help New York City
September 14, 2023
Erin B. Corcoran is a professor at Keough School of Global Affairs and the executive director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs
Indiana Lawyer
Kagan to speak at Notre Dame Forum
September 13, 2023
Kagan will participate in a conversation with Notre Dame Law Dean G. Marcus Cole beginning at 2:30 p.m. Sept. 22 in the Leighton Concert Hall of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center on the South Bend campus.
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OSV News
Holy See urges more nations to sign treaty banning cluster munitions
September 13, 2023
Mary Ellen O'Connell, a professor at Notre Dame Law School who specializes in international law and conflict resolution, told OSV News that "the Catholic Church is in full support of the total ban on cluster munitions" due to its effects on civilians, including long after the conflict.
ND Experts
Notre Dame Law School
Washington Times
Efforts to disqualify Trump for reelection create a prime case for the Supreme Court’s consideration
September 12, 2023
Derek T. Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, said a secretary of state’s authority over removing Mr. Trump’s name from the ballot depends on state law.
ND Experts
Dean's Office-Law School
The Wire
How Disappearance Became a Global Weapon of Control, 50 Years on From Chile’s US-Backed Coup
September 12, 2023
There can be no peace at a macro level if individuals and communities remain traumatised by wounds that cannot heal because of a gaping absence. Josefina Echavarria Alvarez, director of the Peace Accords Matrix at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, offered this perspective in relation to the work of the Colombia Truth Commission: "What I have seen in my work as peace educator over decades in various post-war contexts has been the importance of art-based responses..."
Dziennik, Polskie Radio 24, Wirtualnemedia, Tysol | Polish
Germany has reason to be concerned. "Catastrophe is not unthinkable"
September 07, 2023
Such considerations drown out voices suggesting that extending support for carmakers could be counterproductive in the long run, writes The Economist. He evokes the views of Ruediger Bachmann of the University of Notre Dame, who believes that German politicians should rely more on market forces to fill the economic space that may open up as the German automotive industry weakens.
ND Experts
Economics
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The New York Times
Colorado Lawsuit Seeks to Keep Trump Off Ballots Under 14th Amendment
September 07, 2023
Derek Muller, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, emphasized that standing requirements are looser in state courts than in federal courts, especially when it comes to voters’ ability to challenge candidates’ eligibility.
ND Experts
Dean's Office-Law School