ND in the News: March 2021
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Catholic News Service
Business executive who is gospel singer, author to receive Laetare Medal
March 15, 2021
Carla Harris, a top executive at the investment bank Morgan Stanley, and a celebrated gospel singer, speaker and author, will be awarded the University of Notre Dame’s 2021 Laetare Medal.
MarketWatch
Once considered on the cusp of retirement, these people are taking a ‘gap year’ after successful careers
March 15, 2021
In addition to the Tower Fellows Program that Dorr attended, these include the Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute, Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative, the University of Notre Dame’s Inspired Leadership Initiative, and the University of Minnesota’s Advanced Careers Initiative.
USA Today
Supreme Court's COVID-19 cases stir up battle between religion, same-sex couples over foster care
March 15, 2021
“The opinions we're seeing and the votes we're seeing in the shadow docket coronavirus and church closing cases suggest that in the Fulton case, the court is going to come out in favor of the Catholic adoption agency,” said Richard Garnett, director of the University of Notre Dame law school program on church, state and society.
ND Experts
Notre Dame Law School
National Catholic Reporter
It's Laetare Sunday: Here is the 2021 Laetare Medal recipient
March 14, 2021
Carla Harris, a celebrated gospel singer and a leading U.S. financial executive, will receive the University of Notre Dame's 2021 Laetare Medal, one of the most prestigious prizes in the American Catholic Church.
The New York Times
Luis Palau, the ‘Billy Graham of Latin America,’ Dies at 86
March 13, 2021
“His ministry was able to bridge gaps between whites and Latinos in a way that suburban white ministers could not, especially in the 1980s and ’90s,” said Darren Dochuk, a historian at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
College of Arts and Letters
Vice
This is Why You Keep Forgetting Why You Entered a Room
March 12, 2021
The term was coined after a 2011 study by researchers at the University of Notre Dame, who found that people tend to forget things after passing through a doorway because their brain refreshes since memories from the old room were less likely to be relevant in the new room.
Religion News Service
“Allergic to religion”: Conservative politics can push people out of the pews, new study shows
March 12, 2021
In Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American Politics, political scientists David E. Campbell and Geoffrey C. Layman of the University of Notre Dame and John C. Green of the University of Akron argue that the US’s secular population is larger and more diverse than previously acknowledged — and that a big part of what’s driving secularity is actually religious people’s political behavior.
Chicago Tribune
Indiana expanding COVID-19 vaccinations to teachers
March 12, 2021
Additional large-scale clinics to be held at Ivy Tech Community College in Sellersburg the University of Notre Dame are already fully booked, but appointment slots are still available for a fourth mass vaccination site at Calumet New Tech High School in Gary, scheduled for later this month.
Bloomberg
Warren Buffett Becomes Sixth Member of $100 Billion Club
March 11, 2021
Meanwhile, more than 8 million Americans -- including many children -- fell into poverty in the second half of last year, according to an analysis by University of Chicago economist Bruce Meyer, University of Notre Dame’s James Sullivan and Zhejiang University’s Jeehoon Han.
ND Experts
Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Marketplace
Why “equity” can mean “cash” in real estate and “fairness” in everyday language
March 11, 2021
According to a 2016 paper about the definitions of equity by Samuel Bray, a professor of law at Notre Dame, “There were also certain kinds of suits that were typically brought in equity [courts] because the chancellor had developed special doctrines for them — especially suits about trusts and mortgages.
Business Insider
Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus could drastically cut poverty, studies say
March 11, 2021
Those drops aren't unexpected. Throughout America's pandemic year, poverty has fallen with each new stimulus package and increased unemployment benefits, according to research from economists at University of Chicago, University of Notre Dame, and Zhejiang University.
ND Experts
Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Associated Press
Indiana expanding COVID-19 vaccinations to teachers
March 10, 2021
Additional large-scale clinics to be held at Ivy Tech Community College in Sellersburg the University of Notre Dame are already fully booked, but appointment slots are still available for a fourth mass vaccination site at Calumet New Tech High School in Gary, scheduled for later this month.