ND in the News
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in these articles do not necessarily reflect those of the University.
Newsweek
Donald Trump Could Be Disqualified Due to 55-Year-Old Ruling
December 08, 2023
Derek T. Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, has filed a briefing to the Colorado Supreme Court. In it, he said that there have been several cases where presidential candidates were excluded from the ballot because they were deemed ineligible under the U.S constitution.
ND Experts
Dean's Office-Law School
Science
NASA opens door to cooperation with China on Moon rock research
December 08, 2023
The NASA move “is huge,” says Clive Neal, a lunar scientist at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
CNN
Major ruling looms after Colorado Supreme Court hearing on whether the ‘insurrectionist ban’ applies to Trump
December 07, 2023
“The justices struggled with whether Colorado courts even have power to hear cases like this,” said Derek Muller, an election law expert at Notre Dame Law School who filed a brief that was neutral on disqualifying Trump.
ND Experts
Dean's Office-Law School
The Washington Post
Yes, people lie online. But it may matter less than we fear.
December 06, 2023
In “A History of Fake Things on the Internet,” computer scientist Walter J. Scheirer proposes that much of what has been disparaged as “misinformation” is best considered under a different rubric: that of art.
ND Experts
Computer Science and Engineering
Chicago Tribune
University of Notre Dame vice president named its next leader
December 05, 2023
The University of Notre Dame’s board of trustees has selected the Rev. Robert Dowd to serve as the school’s 18th president, the university announced Monday. His term will begin July 1.
Fox News
How exodus from Congress could shape 2024 election
December 05, 2023
"Retirements can take many forms. Members seek another office or another career opportunity, or they simply get tired with the job after doing it for many years," Derek T. Muller, professor of law at Notre Dame Law School, told Fox News Digital.
ND Experts
Dean's Office-Law School
Bloomberg (Brazil) | Portuguese
Meta and IBM create AI alliance to share technology
December 05, 2023
The group must create a board of directors and a technical oversight committee. Participants include Oracle, AMD, Intel and Stability AI, as well as academic and research organizations such as the University of Notre Dame and the Mass Open Cloud Alliance.
New York Post
China’s government can’t take a joke, so comedians living abroad censor themselves
December 05, 2023
“There are some areas where people won’t go, but it’s not typically because of government policies, but more social pressure or culture or religion,” said Michel Hockx, a professor of Chinese Literature and director of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies in University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
East Asian Languages and Cultures
USA Today
Are attacks on Trump witnesses 'par for the course'? Why the gag orders are hard to enforce.
December 04, 2023
“It’s a delicate balancing that the courts are going through," said Derek Muller, a lawyer professor at the University of Notre Dame. "I envy no one in trying to balance them in a case like this."
ND Experts
Dean's Office-Law School
Financial Times
Colombia’s leader promised ‘total peace’. Then violence surged
December 04, 2023
Of the 578 commitments made in the 2016 agreement, about half had either been implemented at a minimum level by November 2022 or not implemented at all, according to a study published in June by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
South Bend Tribune
Rev. Robert A. Dowd to replace Jenkins in July as president of University of Notre Dame
December 04, 2023
The Rev. Robert A. Dowd will become the 18th president of the University of Notre Dame, the board of trustees announced Monday morning.
Forbes
University Of Notre Dame Selects Robert A. Dowd As Next President
December 04, 2023
The University of Notre Dame has picked Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C., to be its 18th president. Dowd will assume office on July 1, 2024, succeeding Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., who is stepping down at the end of the 2023-24 academic year after serving as Notre Dame’s president for 19 years.
Associated Press
Notre Dame trustees select Robert Dowd as university’s 18th president
December 04, 2023
University of Notre Dame trustees have selected the Rev. Robert Dowd as the school’s 18th president. The university announced the move Monday. Dowd will take over as president on July 1.
The Irish Times
North and South Series: A major research project examining attitudes North and South about the future of the island - and the likely outcomes of any Border polls
December 04, 2023
The opinion polls are part of the North and South series, a research collaboration between ARINS and The Irish Times. ARINS, Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South, is a joint project of the Royal Irish Academy and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
El Espectador | Spanish
Expel the ex-FARC from the Peace Agreement?
December 04, 2023
We have just completed seven years, almost half of the 15 contemplated for the implementation of the Agreement with the FARC, and we have a bittersweet balance. On the one hand, for the Historical Pact, the Colombian State was destroying peace, but the Kroc Institute for Peace at the University of Notre Dame, in charge of monitoring it, shows progress by November 2022 of 31% of initiatives completed and 20 % in intermediate state.
Vox
How to think through allegations of genocide in Gaza
December 04, 2023
“I don’t think it’s genocidal yet. I think it can easily be,” said Ernesto Verdeja, an associate professor of political science and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame. “At this point, it’s a little hard to put all the pieces together.”
ND Experts
Keough School of Global Affairs
Veja | Portuguese
Fragile gender? Not at all: study shows the strength of women from ancient times
December 04, 2023
It is thanks to Cara Ocobock, from the University of Notre Dame, and Sarah Lacy, from the University of Delaware, that they are responsible for further burying the myth of the hunting man.
ND Experts
Anthropology
Radio Nacional de Colombia | Spanish
How is the implementation of the Peace Agreement in Colombia going? Key data
December 04, 2023
Implementation progress: according to the Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame (USA), as of November 2022, only 31% of the implementation of the Peace Agreement was complete.
-
Newsweek
War Destroying Ukraine's Cultural Heritage at Scale 'Not Seen Since WWII'
December 01, 2023
"As a group of international and Ukrainian archaeologists, we realized there was an urgent needed to visit these locations systematically and visit representative sites," Ian Kuijt, professor of anthropology with the University of Notre Dame who participated in the survey, told Newsweek.
-
Science
‘Wherever we’ve looked, we see destruction.’ The Ukraine war’s impact on buried archaeological sites
December 01, 2023
Science spoke with co-authors Pavlo Shydlovskyi, an archaeologist at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, and University of Notre Dame archaeologist Ian Kuijt about their efforts to track the damage—and prevent more.
Science Friday
Women Were Also Skilled Hunters In Ancient Times
Audio
December 01, 2023
Ira is joined by Dr. Cara Ocobock, assistant professor in the department of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, and Dr. Sarah Lacy, biological anthropologist at the University of Delaware, to discuss the details of their findings and why the myth of “Man the Hunter” has persisted for so long.
ND Experts
Anthropology
Time
For University Leaders, Silence on the Israel-Hamas War is Not Golden
November 30, 2023
Since the 1960s, college presidents such as Notre Dame’s Theodore Hesburgh, Yale’s Kingman Brewster and Berkeley’s Clark Kerr—all of whom have featured on the cover of TIME—have made an impact on the discourse surrounding global issues.
NPR
Ceasefire in Middle East extended one day at a time
November 30, 2023
Can mediation help deliver a longer truce? Here & Now‘s Scott Tong talks with Laurie Nathan, director of the Mediation Program at Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, about the possibilities and limitations of mediation.
ND Experts
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs
Le Quotidien de l'Art | French
The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art opens its doors in Indiana
November 30, 2023
Named after major patrons of the project estimated at $66 million – the late Ernestine Raclin, her daughter Carmen
and his son-in-law Chris Murphy, Raclin Murphy Museum of Art offers 6,500 m2 of exhibition spaces
Bloomberg
Voting Rights Law Faces More Setbacks With Conservative Judges
November 29, 2023
Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame who studies election law, said that federal appeals courts with a number of judges appointed by Trump and other Republicans, including the Eleventh and Eighth circuits, tend to have a more conservative approach to interpreting statutes.
ND Experts
Dean's Office-Law School
Yahoo! News
Prehistoric women were probably better at hunting than men, scientists suggest
November 29, 2023
Women have a metabolism better suited to endurance, according to Cara Ocobock, director of the Human Energetics Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Anthropology
-
Fox News
Prehistoric women believed to be hunters, not just gatherers, in new study of hormones and genetics
November 28, 2023
Cara Ocobock, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and director of the Human Energetics Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, recently discovered some interesting facts about prehistoric women.
ND Experts
Anthropology
The Guardian
Can you solve it? How cut-throat are you? The ruthless pursuit of power
November 27, 2023
Today’s puzzle concerns a group of five power-hungry schemers who are all desperate to become the top boss. Your task will be to work out how the person of lowest status can triumph above all the others. The puzzle is a new variant of what are often called “pirate-division” problems, and was written by Joel David Hamkins, who is currently the O’Hara Professor of Logic at the University of Notre Dame and was previously Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford.
The Ray D'Arcy Show | RTE Radio 1
Pre-historic women hunted just as much as men
Audio
November 27, 2023
Ray is joined by Cara Ocobock, from the University of Notre Dame in the U.S., a co-author of a new study which suggests that prehistoric women frequently engaged in hunting as much as men and their anatomy also made them better suited for it.
ND Experts
Anthropology
OSV News
Sometimes Called ‘Little Lent,’ Advent Zeros In On Preparation, Which Can Include Penitence
November 24, 2023
Timothy O’Malley, the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and the academic director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, emphasized that much of the church’s year has historically been penitential.
ND Experts
McGrath Institute for Church Life