ND in the News

Richard Garnett, who runs Notre Dame Law School’s Program on Church, State and Society, argued that amending RFRA could swing the pendulum too far away from protecting religious freedom. 

As Father John I. Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame observes in his book, Conviction and Peril of Our Passionate Beliefs, “Civility is what allows speech to be heard.”

The Russians have released few concrete details about the weapon, but from the information available, it appears the weapon is a so-called hypersonic glide vehicle, said Thomas Juliano, an assistant professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Notre Dame who specializes in hypersonic flight.

Commentary by economics expert Jason Reed, assistant teaching professor of finance in the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business.

A February research paper he co-authored with Kasey Buckles and Daniel Hungerman of the University of Notre Dame found that in the U.S., fertility appears to be a leading economic indicator: “The growth rate for conceptions begins to fall several quarters prior to economic decline,” they wrote.

Before the trial began, Notre Dame Law School professor Mark McKenna told USA TODAY that determining the outcome of the case wouldn’t be easy for the jury, and that appears to have been the case. 

Speaking of immigration, here is video of Sr. Norma Pimentel, a member of the Missionaries of Jesus, receiving the Laetare award at last weekend's commencement exercises at the University of Notre Dame, and her splendid speech to the students. 

Luis Fraga rose to become a prominent figure in academia, now at Notre Dame and formerly at Stanford University, but the validation he may have been seeking from his alma mater didn't come until last fall when he was invited to speak alongside Ballmer at the Class of 1977's 40th reunion.

Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is managing director of the McGrath Institute for Church Life.

George A. Lopez is the Hesburgh Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies at Notre Dame's Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs.

There is good reason for this mutual pull toward each other, says James McKenna, an anthropologist at Notre Dame who has been studying infant sleep for 40 years.

Sister Norma Pimentel, M.J., executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley and longtime advocate for immigrants and refugees, received the 2018 Laetare Medal, the oldest and most prestigious honor given to American Catholics, at the University of Notre Dame's 173rd Commencement Ceremony on May 20.

University of Notre Dame graduates were asked May 21 to take stock of where they are going and what they will do with their talents.

Jimmy Gurule, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses statements by President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, in which the former New York mayor said that special counsel Robert Mueller had agreed to limit the scope of any future interview with president Trump. 

John Gohsman, vice chancellor for information technology and chief information officer at Washington University in St. Louis, has been appointed vice president for information technology and chief information officer at the University of Notre Dame.

But Kasey Buckles, an economics professor at Notre Dame who conducted the research with two colleagues, said that recent such declines aren’t sharp enough to point to a recession.

Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is managing director of the McGrath Institute for Church Life.

It's not surprising that Facebook's automated programs have the greatest difficulty trying to figure out differences between permissible opinions and despicable language that crosses the line, said Timothy Carone, who teaches about technology at the University of Notre Dame.

James O'Rourke - Mendoza College of Business. 

However, Jessica Payne from the University of Notre Dame notes that in one of her experiments, SWS had the opposite effect.