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Politico
Transition Playbook
November 30, 2020
Biden and Trump teams have completed 79 percent of their legal transition requirements (Notre Dame’s Keough School “Presidential Transition Index” — overseen by President Barack Obama’s former chief of staff Denis McDonough)
Our Sunday Visitor
Opening the Word: Awaiting redemption
November 30, 2020
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
McGrath Institute for Church Life
Bloomberg
Decades of Gains Over U.S. Poverty At Risk of Being Wiped Out
November 28, 2020
Keeping a flow of government assistance open to poorer families will be crucial to ensure that the recovery from the pandemic doesn’t further exacerbate inequality, according to James Sullivan, an economics professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
ND Experts
Economics
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Bloomberg
Covid Order Shows Barrett Fortifies Court on Religious Rights
November 27, 2020
“In the broader context, what this signals is that we have a court that continues to be very protective of religious liberty, and also we have a court that is looking really carefully at whether government is acting in an even-handed way when it comes to how it is regulating religious exercise compared to other sorts of comparable secular conduct,” said Notre Dame law school professor Stephanie Barclay.
ND Experts
Notre Dame Law School
RTE Radio 1
The partition of Ireland: chaos, secrecy and confusion
November 27, 2020
Dr Stephen O'Neill is a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Crux
U.S. bishops ‘working group’ on Biden divides Catholic opinion
November 27, 2020
University of Notre Dame history professor John McGreevy is less concerned about the timing of the announcement and more with the creation of the working group in the first place.
ND Experts
History
The Wall Street Journal
The Resurrection of the Office Phone Call
November 27, 2020
Susan Blum, a professor who specializes in linguistic anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, says Zoom fatigue was inevitable given how unnatural conversational patterns can get there: “Video calls do not allow any conversational overlap. You can’t say ‘mmm-hmm’ to assent because that would interrupt and put you on screen as the main speaker.”
ND Experts
Anthropology
Catholic News Service
Study leads to benchmarks for sexual misconduct policies at seminaries
November 25, 2020
The study was conducted in spring 2019 by the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University in Washington.
ND Experts
Theology
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Crux
Catholic schools will emerge from pandemic stronger, officials say
November 25, 2020
“I think the pandemic has served to amplify and/or accelerate what you could consider pre-existing conditions in Catholic schools,” John Schoenig, senior director of teacher formation and education policy at the University of Notre Dame told Crux.
The Washington Post
The Finance 202: Yellen will face host of political problems as Biden's treasury secretary
November 24, 2020
“When you’re head of the Fed, you’re in charge of monetary policy. At Treasury, you have to work with Congress — they control both the spending and the taxes,” said Jeffrey Bergstrand, a former economist at the Federal Reserve now at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Finance
The New York Times
Watching What We Flush Could Help Keep a Pandemic Under Control
November 24, 2020
For starters, the amount of virus an infected person sheds in stool “can vary by six orders of magnitude,” says Kyle Bibby, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences at the University of Notre Dame.
USA Today
As Treasury chief, Yellen may be a calming influence in a Washington split over stimulus and everything else
November 24, 2020
“She’s a moderate and a centrist,” says Jeffrey Bergstrand, a finance professor at the University of Notre Dame and a former Fed economist.
ND Experts
Finance
America
Experts: Seminaries need clear sexual harassment guidelines to prevent clerical abuse
November 24, 2020
According to the working group, assembled by the University of Notre Dame theologian John Cavadini, seminary and formation house leaders should strive to implement five benchmarks when it comes to protecting faculty, staff and students.
ND Experts
Theology
Business Insider
China just launched a mission to the moon to collect rock samples — the first time a country will have done so in more than 40 years
November 23, 2020
"The moon is small, so its heat engine should have run out a long time ago," Clive Neal, a geoscientist at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, told Nature.
ND Experts
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
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The Wall Street Journal
White House Weighs New Action Against Beijing
November 23, 2020
“This would be a Cold War-like division of the world,” said Eugene Gholz, a University of Notre Dame national security expert. “We expect (China) to behave badly, so we’ll prepare a defense.”
ND Experts
Political Science
Quartz
Meet the company that’s tracking your location to study Covid-19
November 23, 2020
Public health and national security issues are some of the most valuable applications of aggregated location data, says Kirsten Martin, a professor of technology ethics at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Mendoza College of Business
ABC News
Joe Biden's presidential transition allowed to proceed after 16-day standoff
November 23, 2020
"Best available is the way this has been done in transitions over many decades," said Denis McDonough, who is leading a study of the transition at the University of Notre Dame.