ND in the News: September 2022
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The Independent
Scientists finally discover one of the universe’s oldest stars
September 29, 2022
“We now know what to look for; we have a pathway,” said Timothy Beers, an astronomer at the University of Notre Dame. “If this happened locally in the very early Universe, which it should have done, then we would expect to find evidence for it.”
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Department of Physics
PBS NewsHour
Why getting PFAS out of our products is so hard — and why it matters
September 28, 2022
“This stuff is toxic at incredibly low levels and it’s persistent — it stays there for hundreds of years in the groundwater, thousands of years,” said Graham Peaslee, a Notre Dame professor and researcher who’s tested many products for PFAS in his lab.
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Experimental Nuclear Physics
Bloomberg
Behind the Trump Classified Documents Controversy
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September 24, 2022
First Amendment law expert Richard Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses Yeshiva University temporarily suspending all undergraduate club activities after the US Supreme Court refused to step into a legal fight over recognition of a campus LGBTQ student group.
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Notre Dame Law School
The Christian Science Monitor
Trust in elections: Mexico shows how fast it can be lost – and regained
September 22, 2022
Mexico’s democracy isn’t often held up as an example to follow, especially “given that it’s become one of the most violent democracies in the world,” says Guillermo Trejo, professor of comparative politics at the University of Notre Dame. “But, on the electoral dimension, there are lessons for other countries.”
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The Christian Science Monitor
Biden’s UN balancing act: Condemning war while advocating broad agenda
September 21, 2022
With his vision of the democracy-autocracy struggle and specifically, the war in Ukraine, “Biden is speaking and acting with a high degree of moral certainty that we are on the side of the angels,” says Michael Desch, a professor of international relations at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and founding director of the university’s International Security Center.
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Political Science
The Hill
Equilibrium/Sustainability — Bloomberg goes big to stop petrochemical pollution
September 21, 2022
Vulnerable and unaware: “What was surprising about this group of samples was the high detection frequency of PFAS in the garments required for children to wear,” study co-author Graham Peaslee, of the University of Notre Dame, said in a statement.
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Experimental Nuclear Physics
U.S. News & World Report
High Levels of PFAS 'Forever' Chemicals in Kids' School Uniforms
September 21, 2022
“What was surprising about this group of samples was the high detection frequency of PFAS in the garments required for children to wear,” said study co-author Graham Peaslee, a professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame.
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Experimental Nuclear Physics
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The Hill
Scientists find high levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in school uniforms
September 21, 2022
“What was surprising about this group of samples was the high detection frequency of PFAS in the garments required for children to wear,” study co-author Graham Peaslee, a professor of physics at Notre Dame, said in a statement.
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Experimental Nuclear Physics
The Guardian
‘What are they thinking?’: toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in school uniforms
September 21, 2022
“It’s one of those things where you hang your head and say ‘What are they thinking?’” said co-author and University of Notre Dame researcher Graham Peaslee.
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Experimental Nuclear Physics
NBC News
Justices join debate on Supreme Court's legitimacy after abortion ruling
September 18, 2022
“The court’s legitimacy comes down to whether the public thinks the court is doing law, not politics,” said Sherif Girgis, a professor at Notre Dame Law School who was a law clerk for conservative Justice Samuel Alito.
The New York Times
China’s Discovery of Lunar Mineral Could Add to Fuller View of the Moon
September 16, 2022
New minerals discovered on the moon are not abundant, said Clive Neal, a professor of planetary geology at the University of Notre Dame.
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Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences