ND in the News: September 2021
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USDA report shows pandemic relief helped hungry families
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September 09, 2021
So the USDA report is good news, said Jim Sullivan, an economics professor at Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
The Wall Street Journal
The Power of the Latin Mass
September 09, 2021
Some of the distinctive features of the Latin Mass can be applied to the new Mass, according to Timothy O’Malley, an expert on liturgy who teaches at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
McGrath Institute for Church Life
Yahoo
Workplace bias suppression can be difficult to sustain, study shows
September 08, 2021
"When and Why Bias Suppression is Difficult to Sustain: The Asymmetric Effect of Intermittent Accountability" is forthcoming in the Academy of Management Journal from Brittany Solomon and Cindy Muir (Zapata), management professors at Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, along with Matthew Hall, the David A. Potenziani Memorial College Professor of Constitutional Studies, concurrent law professor and director of Notre Dame's Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy.
Bloomberg
China Moves to Complete Its Purge of Hong Kong’s Election System
September 07, 2021
“What the national security law and accompanying measures mean is that Beijing has zero tolerance for any dissent in Hong Kong,” said Victoria Hui, a University of Notre Dame associate political science professor specializing in Hong Kong politics.
ND Experts
Political Science
Los Angeles Times
Prayer and politicking: Churches become a center of the California recall campaign
September 07, 2021
A majority of congregations in the U.S. engage in at least one politically related activity, including nonpartisan get-out-the-vote efforts and candidate endorsements, according to research by sociologists Kraig Beyerlein of the University of Notre Dame and Mark Chaves of Duke University citing the National Congregations Study.
ND Experts
Department of Sociology
National Catholic Reporter
On this Labor Day, advocating for just wages means fighting company theft
September 06, 2021
Conversations on just wages and the economy should include such fundamentals, said Daniel Graff, director of the University of Notre Dame's Higgins Labor Program, part of the university's Center for Social Concerns.
ND Experts
Center for Social Concerns
Our Sunday Visitor
Opening the Word: The hidden Messiah
September 06, 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
The Washington Post
Opinion: Critics of Texas’s convoluted abortion law have a point. The solution is to overturn Roe v. Wade.
September 06, 2021
O. Carter Snead is a law professor at the University of Notre Dame and author of “What It Means to be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics.”
ND Experts
Notre Dame Law School
Associated Press
Admirers still urging sainthood for chaplain killed on 9/11
September 04, 2021
A forceful appeal for canonization came last year in an essay by professor Kathleen Sprows Cummings, director of the University of Notre Dame’s Cushwa Center for American Catholicism.
ND Experts
American Studies
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The Wall Street Journal
New College Degrees Give Liberal-Arts Students More Business Courses
September 03, 2021
“There’s an overall attempt to get more nonbusiness students involved” in an entrepreneurship program, says Michael Morris, a professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs.
ND Experts
McKenna Center for Human Development & Global Business
America
Opening the Word: The hidden Messiah
September 03, 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
Time
U.S. Civil Engineers Bent the Rules to Give New Orleans Extra Protection from Hurricanes. Those Adjustments Might Have Saved the City During Ida
September 02, 2021
Joannes Westerink, a civil engineer and computational hydrologist at the University of Notre Dame, has spent much of his career developing software to predict hurricane storm surges.
ND Experts
Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences
The Guardian
China bans reality talent shows to curb behaviours of ‘idol’ fandoms
September 02, 2021
“The CCP has always had a complicated relationship with popular culture,” said Michel Hockx, director of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
ND Experts
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Sojourners
Could the U.S. Government Take Nonviolence Seriously?
September 02, 2021
“What this moment in time teaches us is that war does not work,” said Lisa Schirch, senior fellow with the Alliance for Peacebuilding and a visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute.
The New York Times
Texas Abortion Case Highlights Concern Over Supreme Court’s ‘Shadow Docket’
September 02, 2021
“I don’t think anyone thinks it is good to have a lot of last-minute requests for emergency relief that the court has to focus on and decide,” said Samuel Bray, a University of Notre Dame law professor who testified about the shadow docket this summer before President Biden’s commission studying possible Supreme Court changes.
The Daily Beast
Backpage Kingpins Go on Trial—and Sex Workers May Pay the Price
September 01, 2021
But Alexandra Yelderman, a visiting assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School, argues that the trial still holds serious significance—more so than the criminal prosecutions of RentBoy, myRedBook, and other adult websites.