ND in the News: December 2020

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  1. Joe Biden is taking office amid a poverty crisis

    Jeehoon Han of Zhejiang University, Bruce Meyer of the University of Chicago, and James X. Sullivan at the University of Notre Dame have their own set of real-time measures, and while they do not calculate projections for January 2021, they tell the same story as the Columbia researchers about what happened from January to October 2020.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  2. Chang’e-5: why has China sent a probe to the moon?

    Clive Neal, a geoscientist at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, told Nature the lander could crash, topple over, or the samples could fall out as it moves. 

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    Clive Neal Portrait

    Clive Neal

    Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences

  3. China Moon mission and a scholar on death row

    If the mission achieves its goals, it will mark the beginning of a new era of robotic sample returns from the Moon, which will undoubtedly change scientists’ understanding of the planetary body, says Clive Neal, a geoscientist at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.

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    Clive Neal Portrait

    Clive Neal

    Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences

  4. Ep. 32: Student Wellbeing During the Fall Term

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    Christine Gebhardt, the University of Notre Dame's assistant vice president for student services, talked with us about how the university expanded the reach of its counseling and health services this fall.

  5. China just landed its Chang'e-5 spacecraft on the moon. The mission could bring moon rocks to Earth for the first time in 40-plus years.

    "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.

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    Clive Neal Portrait

    Clive Neal

    Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences