ND in the News: August 2021
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Our Sunday Visitor
The disciplined creativity of Christian charisms
August 20, 2021
Leonard J. DeLorenzo, Ph.D., works in the McGrath Institute for Church Life and teaches theology at the University of Notre Dame.
NBC News
Mail has been showing up on time, but don't be fooled: Slower days are coming
August 18, 2021
“Service performance continued to improve, but that was based on a comparison with a year in which performance has declined substantially,” said James O’Rourke, a management professor at the University of Notre Dame who has tracked the USPS for more than a decade.
ND Experts
Mendoza College of Business
CNN
How Apple's plan to combat child abuse backfired on it
Video
August 17, 2021
While no one is disputing Apple's motivation, Elizabeth Renieris, professor at Notre Dame University's IBM Technology Ethics Lab, said the timing was "a bit odd" given all of its privacy-focused announcements at its Worldwide Developer Conference in June.
CNBC
Jobs are still down 22% for low-wage workers. They’re up for everyone else
August 16, 2021
The U.S. poverty rate dropped after the passage of three pandemic-aid bills, and in June was about the same as its pre-pandemic baseline, according to estimates published by economists at the University of Chicago and University of Notre Dame.
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Our Sunday Visitor
Opening the Word: Bread of life discourse: Parts 4 and 5
August 16, 2021
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
Reuters
Analysis: Debt in a warm climate: coronavirus and carbon set scene for default
August 12, 2021
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warns that a 10 percentage-point rise in climate change vulnerability, as measured by the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative index, is associated with an increase of over 150 basis points in long-term government bond spreads for developing nations.
The Washington Post
Is that long-lasting lipstick toxic? Study raises concerns about PFAS in cosmetics.
August 11, 2021
The study was led by scientists at the University of Notre Dame and published in the Journal of Environmental Science & Technology Letters.
ND Experts
Experimental Nuclear Physics