ND in the News: March 2021

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  1. New Orleans archdiocese labels Johnson & Johnson vaccine 'morally compromised'; Merck to help manufacture it: Live COVID-19 updates

    "You often don’t see such fierce competitors partner to increase production capacity of pharmaceutical products," said Kaitlin Wowak, assistant professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. 

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    Kaitlin Wowak

    Mendoza College of Business

  2. U.S. COVID vaccine supply to be boosted by Merck helping make J&J vaccine

    “You often don’t see such fierce competitors partner to increase production capacity of pharmaceutical products, but unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures,” said Kaitlin Wowak, assistant professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, who specializes in supply chain disruptions including product shortages.

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    Kaitlin Wowak

    Mendoza College of Business

  3. What will Catholic community look like after COVID?

    Timothy P. O’Malley, director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, told Our Sunday Visitor that he believes the next 10 years will be “an extremely challenging” period for parish life in the United States.

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    Timothy O'Malley

    McGrath Institute for Church Life

  4. Fact-checking Psaki's claim that there 'have not been sanctions put in place' on foreign leaders even in recent past

    George Lopez, a University of Notre Dame professor who previously sat on a United Nations expert panel for monitoring and implementing sanctions on North Korea, interpreted Psaki's claim more generously than Hufbauer and Beck did.

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    George A. Lopez

    Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies; Keough School of Global Affairs

  5. Martin Sheen: How Mother Teresa, Dan Berrigan’s lawyer and I fought to end the Gulf War

    As a graduate of Notre Dame, with degrees in international studies, theology and law, he had made many contacts relevant to this venture, including someone who was quite close to Mother Teresa, who had also been outspoken about the war.