ND in the News: February 2023
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Fox News
Vietnam veteran's dog tag found in rice field, returned to family 57 years later: 'Means the world'
February 18, 2023
In October 2022, former Virginia Senator Jim Webb and Notre Dame Professor Michael Desch took a group of students to visit the province. While exploring near an airstrip used by the U.S. military, a villager approached them and said he had six dog tags that were found plowing rice fields over the years.
ND Experts
Political Science
The Wall Street Journal
For $60,000, These Colleges Help Older Workers Plot Encore Careers
February 17, 2023
Harvard enrolled its first group in 2009, and schools including the University of Notre Dame and the University of Texas at Austin have since followed.
The New York Times
The Prince of New York
February 15, 2023
There is currently a class about the designer Thom Browne being taught not, as one might expect, at Parsons or the Fashion Institute of Technology or even Central Saint Martins, but at the University of Notre Dame.
Our Sunday Visitor
FBI faces scrutiny about memo on 'radical traditionalist Catholics'
February 15, 2023
Rick Garnett, a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, told OSV News that although the FBI retracted the memo, "that it was ever composed is troubling."
ND Experts
Notre Dame Law School
Sky News Arabia
The humanitarian response to the earthquake in Turkey and Syria
Video Audio
February 15, 2023
(in Arabic only) An interview discussing the humanitarian response to the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, joined by the University of Notre Dame's Ray Offenheiser, Director of the Pulte Institute for Global Development in the Keough School of Global Affairs, and former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Turkey, James Jeffrey.
ND Experts
McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business; Keough School of Global Affairs
The Washington Post
The less college students sleep, the worse their grades, study finds
February 14, 2023
Creswell and the team of researchers conducted five studies, recruiting college freshmen taking courses in a range of majors at Carnegie Mellon, the University of Notre Dame and the University of Washington.
Religion News Service
Planning for our post-Roe world
February 13, 2023
At Notre Dame the McGrath Institute for Church Life held a distinctly pro-life event called “A Culture of Life in Post-Dobbs America,” geared toward thinking about how to respond to the new moment.
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The Wall Street Journal
Hong Kong’s Brand Makeover Leaves Out Mention of Social Upheaval
February 13, 2023
“You see the same buildings, the same bustling streets—Hong Kong looks like before. But what’s really important is the soul,” said Victoria Hui, an associate professor of politics at the University of Notre Dame. “The Hong Kong brand has been destroyed, and the Hong Kong soul has emptied out.”
ND Experts
Political Science
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The New York Times
Hong Kong’s Pro-Democracy Leaders Held an Election. Now They’re on Trial.
February 12, 2023
“The trial of the 47 represents a turning point in the crackdown because it reveals the true purpose of the national security law,” said Victoria Hui, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame who studies Hong Kong.
ND Experts
Political Science
Time
PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Are Turning Up in Menstrual Products. Here's What You Need to Know
February 10, 2023
“It assumes you have a lifetime of drinking water,” says Graham Peaslee, professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, who is also active in PFAS research and whose lab conducts regular tests of products for the substances.
ND Experts
Experimental Nuclear Physics