ND in the News: August 2022
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NPR
Experts say a Trump-backed charity is pushing the boundaries of tax law
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August 31, 2022
"If I was looking at this as an IRS agent or as an outside lawyer for that matter, I would say there's enough here that I want to do some digging," said Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, an expert in nonprofit law at the University of Notre Dame School of Law.
ND Experts
Notre Dame Law School
The Guardian
The Black mothers finding freedom in mushrooms: ‘They give us our power back’
August 28, 2022
“Drugs have been racialized in the US since the early 20th century. Cocaine was an over-the-counter medicine for 50 or 60 years – then it became racialized when Black people started using it,” said Dr. Jason Ruiz, an American studies associate professor and department chair at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
American Studies
MSN
Hitting the snooze button linked to unhealthy higher heart rate
August 28, 2022
Researchers from the University of Notre Dame in the US have found that people who wake up after multiple alarms are more likely to have a higher heart rate than those who get out of bed after just one.
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NPR
NASA is set to return to the moon. Here are 4 reasons to go back
August 28, 2022
Artemis could change that, says Clive Neal, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and Earth sciences at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
Daily Mail
You snooze, you lose: As six in ten of us hit snooze button, research finds spending that extra time in bed could lead to health problems
August 27, 2022
Researchers from the University of Notre Dame in the United States also discovered that snoozers were more likely to spend the last hour before waking in a light sleep, compared to the deeper slumber enjoyed by non-snoozers.
The New York Times
The Fed Chair’s Challenge: Be Clear, but Not Too Certain
August 26, 2022
“Like Odysseus bound to the mast of his ship, a monetary policymaker must forswear the siren call of the moment and stick to plans laid in the past,” as Jeffrey Campbell, an economics professor at Notre Dame, explained the term while working at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago in 2013.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
A Catholic University Hired a Dean With Ties to the Vatican. The Problem? He Faked His Credentials.
August 24, 2022
Laura Banella, an assistant professor of Italian at Notre Dame University who was born and raised in Italy, does not think the discrepancy was a simple misunderstanding.
National Geographic
How NASA’s Artemis program plans to return astronauts to the moon
August 23, 2022
For University of Notre Dame lunar scientist Clive Neal, whether Artemis can be considered a success or not depends on the technological benefits that it yields.
ND Experts
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
Associated Press
As Amazon grows, so does its eye on consumers
August 22, 2022
For companies like Amazon, data collection is for more than just data’s sake, noted Kirsten Martin, a professor of technology ethics at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Mendoza College of Business
Mother Jones
Just How Clean Is “Clean” Hydrogen, Anyway?
August 20, 2022
“Right now it’s a completely meaningless term,” says Emily Grubert, who studies sustainable energy policy at the University of Notre Dame.
HuffPost
The U.S. Finally Has A Real Climate Law. Get Ready For More Pipelines.
August 20, 2022
“There’s a massive amount of infrastructure across multiple industries — regulated differently, owned differently, with different profit structures and different expertise — that [goes] into the maintenance of fossil fuel supply chains,” said Emily Grubert, an associate professor of sustainable energy policy at the University of Notre Dame.