ND in the News: December 2020
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The Washington Post
JFK was greeted with rock-star support from Catholics. Biden faces a much more divided tribe.
December 09, 2020
“It’s potentially a game-changer in American politics,” said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, head of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame.
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American Studies
Bloomberg
Airbnb, DoorDash Rallies Stoke Debate on Pricing IPOs
December 09, 2020
“We haven’t seen this level of IPO pricing variability in a long time, perhaps since 1999 and 2000,” said Notre Dame Law School associate professor Patrick Corrigan, who specializes in IPOs and venture capital.
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Notre Dame Law School
Fortune
Cybersecurity firm FireEye discloses that it was hacked, sending its shares spiraling
December 08, 2020
“The FireEye breach is an extraordinarily significant attack because of the nature of the target,” said Mike Chapple, teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, in written remarks.
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Mendoza
NPR
Top Cyber Firm, FireEye, Says It's Been Hacked By A Foreign Govt.
December 08, 2020
"As one of the world's go-to cybersecurity firms, FireEye has a ringside seat for some of the most sophisticated breaches carried out worldwide," said Mike Chapple, a former computer scientist at the National Security Agency who now teaches at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business.
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Mendoza
Our Sunday Visitor
Opening the Word: Lessons from John the Baptist: ‘I am not’
December 07, 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
CNN
Economists to Bernie Sanders: Don't kill the relief bill over stimulus checks
December 07, 2020
If not for the stimulus checks, the US poverty rate would have been 1.1 percentage points higher in June, according to research done by Meyer, the University of Chicago economist, along with economists at the University of Notre Dame and Zhejiang University.
ND Experts
Economics
USA Today
Meet Biden crisis manager Ron Klain, who will dive into the COVID-19 fight with Dr. Anthony Fauci
December 05, 2020
Denis McDonough, one of Obama’s former chiefs of staff who now teaches at the University of Notre Dame, attributes some of Klain’s skills as a coalition builder and low-key problem solver to the Indiana roots he’s proud of, and still nurtures, decades after leaving his home state.
Financial Times
Robo-surveillance shifts tone of CEO earnings calls
December 05, 2020
Not coincidentally, 2011 was when Tim Loughran and Bill McDonald, two finance professors at the University of Notre Dame, first published a more detailed, finance-specific dictionary that has become popular as a training tool for NLP algorithms.
ND Experts
Finance
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CNN
NASA is paying startups for moon rocks. It's not what you think
December 04, 2020
"It's important that we balance, moving forward together in a way that will enable this [lunar] economy as well as the science," said Clive Neal, an engineering professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
The Hill
Joe Biden and new administration could restore economic sanctions
December 04, 2020
George Lopez is professor emeritus and a founding member with the Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and is a nonresident fellow with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
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Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies; Keough School of Global Affairs
The Christian Science Monitor
Why “the 26 words that created the internet” are under fire
December 03, 2020
“I’m kind of worried about how this has caused people to silo into their own kind of media ecosystems and echo chambers,” says Tim Weninger, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, who has studied the structural impact of social media algorithms and the corresponding proliferation of misinformation and “fake news.”
ND Experts
Computer Science and Engineering
The New York Times
The Best Period Underwear
December 03, 2020
We also spoke with Rolf Halden, director of the Biodesign Center for Environmental Health Engineering at Arizona State University, and with University of Notre Dame nuclear physicist Graham Peaslee (whose lab tested period underwear sent in by a columnist for the Sierra Club magazine) about chemicals found in treated garments, including some period underwear.
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Experimental Nuclear Physics
America
Despite imprisonment, Hong Kong democracy activists urge continued resistance
December 03, 2020
That troubling prospect warrants the attention of the international human rights community, according to Maggie Shum, a research associate at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.
BBC News
Unemployed in the USA: 'I don’t know what to do'
December 03, 2020
Without action, "the short-term impact is going to be more economic deprivation," says James Sullivan, economics professor at the University of Notre Dame, whose research has found that roughly 7 million people have fallen into poverty since May, many of them African American, children and those without university degrees.
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Economics