ND in the News: February 2022
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The Hill
Unprecedented Western sanctions strangling Russian economy
February 28, 2022
“Everyone in the economic sphere, the banking sphere, knows we’re in new territory here—a coordinated shutdown of a country’s economy with the strongest arrow being in the heart of the banking sector,” said George Lopez, expert on economic sanctions at University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs.
ND Experts
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies; Keough School of Global Affairs
Catholic News Service
Donnelly will soon head to Rome as new US ambassador to the Holy See
February 28, 2022
Holy Cross Father John Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame, Donnelly's alma mater, offered a prayer and a blessing for the new ambassador.
WGN
Ukraine and Russia from an international law perspective with Notre Dame professor
Audio
February 26, 2022
Mary Ellen O’Connell, International Law specialist and Law and research professor at Notre Dame talks about previous conflicts with NATO countries. The two discuss Russia’s position in the United Nations and putting pressure on Putin.
ND Experts
Notre Dame Law School
Inside Higher Ed
An Invasion Felt in Academe
February 25, 2022
One of the most moving statements on Thursday came from the Reverend John I. Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame.
National Catholic Reporter
Russian invasion of Ukraine raises moral questions about how to achieve peace
February 25, 2022
The statement issued by University of Notre Dame President Fr. John Jenkins captures this spiritual and moral conundrum. "Now, more than ever, our friends in Ukraine are in need of healing and hope," Jenkins said.
CNN
Fear grips the global markets and volatility soars
February 24, 2022
"Russia is very interconnected with firms throughout the world. The consequences of Russia being cut off from the global financial system are unclear, and this uncertainty could prove disastrous," said Peter Kelly, assistant professor of finance in the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.
Newsweek
Russian Tank Convoy Blown Up in Videos As Ukraine Fights Back Invasion
February 24, 2022
Ian Johnson, assistant military history professor at the University of Notre Dame said that the death toll "in military and civilian lives could very well reach the tens of thousands."
ND Experts
Department of History
Vice
War in Ukraine Could Create Permanent Nuclear and Chemical Environmental Disasters
February 24, 2022
“Due to the persistence of pollutants in ecosystems, they will remain active and harmful in the Donbas and in the global ecosystem even if/once peace is achieved,” Hook writes in the paper, co-authored with Richard Marcantonio, researcher in international peace studies at the University of Notre Dame.
South China Morning Post
China’s censors increasingly play the part of morality police with the conservative values of 1950s America, say experts
February 24, 2022
The publication of China’s 14th five-year plan last year which included culture was a noticeable turning point, according to Professor Michel Hockx, the director of Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies at the University of Notre Dame in the US.
ND Experts
East Asian Languages and Cultures
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CNN
How the world can make Putin pay for invading Ukraine
February 24, 2022
Mary Ellen O’Connell is the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law and research professor of international dispute resolution at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Notre Dame Law School
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Catholic News Service
U.S. church offers prayers, solidarity after Russia attacks Ukraine
February 24, 2022
Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, in a Feb. 24 statement recalled a 2019 visit to Lviv, Ukraine, to present an award to Archbishop Borys Gudziak, now head of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, for his “leadership of the first Catholic university established in the territory of the former Soviet Union.”
The Washington Post
Opinion: What gay men’s stunning success might teach us about the academic gender gap
February 24, 2022
Joel Mittleman is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame.
NPR
Has Russia already invaded Ukraine? An expert clarifies 'invasion'
Audio
February 23, 2022
We asked Mary Ellen O'Connell, professor of international dispute studies at Notre Dame Law School and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, how do we know when we've passed the red line?
ND Experts
Notre Dame Law School
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National Catholic Reporter
US bishops defend planned $28 million eucharistic congress amid criticism
February 23, 2022
The McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame is providing funding for a new survey that the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University will conduct on Catholic eucharistic beliefs.
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Inside Higher Ed
What is… the ‘Jeopardy!’ College Championship?
February 22, 2022
Another contestant, Matt Downing, a senior marketing and applied mathematics student at the University of Notre Dame, took the initial test in October 2020 after seeing an advertisement.