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.
ND Experts
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.
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.”
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Computer Science and Engineering
Vox
Joe Biden is taking office amid a poverty crisis
December 03, 2020
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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Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
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; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Nature
China Moon mission and a scholar on death row
December 02, 2020
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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Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
The Guardian
Chang’e-5: why has China sent a probe to the moon?
December 02, 2020
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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Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
Inside Higher Ed
Ep. 32: Student Wellbeing During the Fall Term
Audio
December 02, 2020
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.
Business Insider
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.
December 01, 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.
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Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
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.
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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; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
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.”
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Anthropology
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.
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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.
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Notre Dame Law School
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.
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History
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.
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Theology