ND in the News: June 2023

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  1. Money

    Study Shows People Who Work Hard May Be Bad Investors

    “Consumers feel greater psychological ownership over their earnings when they work hard for them,” lead author Christopher Bechler, a marketing professor at Notre Dame, explains in a blog post

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  2. AI drive-thrus may be good for business. But not for the rest of us

    The adoption of new technology could mean fewer jobs or part-time work for employees, said Yong Suk Lee, assistant professor of technology, economy and global affairs at the University of Notre Dame, where he focuses on AI’s impact on labor.

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    Yong Suk Lee

    Keough School of Global Affairs

  3. Charter Schools Pose Supreme Court’s Next Religious Liberty Test

    University of Notre Dame Law School professor Nicole Stelle Garnett said charter schools in most states are privately operated independent of the government so that makes them private schools.

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    Nicole Stelle Garnett

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  4. Documents case against Trump appears strong, but prosecutors still face hurdles, legal experts say

    “It’s going to be a long, difficult haul between now and calling the first witness in the case,” said Jimmy Gurulé, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame who teaches national security law. “There are a lot of unknowns because we’re in uncharted waters.”

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    Jimmy Gurulé

    Notre Dame Law School

  5. Social Studies: Stops by Democratic and Republican cops; the power of not marrying a cousin; the mindset of water scarcity

    Economists at the University of Notre Dame worked with a homelessness prevention program in Santa Clara County, Calif. (which includes much of Silicon Valley, where rent levels can make those in Boston look reasonable), to conduct a randomized controlled trial of short-term financial assistance.

  6. One is the loneliest number: What will help people connect again?

    “I’ve been sort of saying this is a problem for quite a long time,” says Darcia Narvaez, professor emerita of psychology at the University of Notre Dame. “So the report wasn’t a surprise to me. It was great to see that the government is paying attention to it."

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    Darcia Narvaez

    Darcia Narvaez

    Psychology

  7. A Religious Charter School Faces Pushback From the Charter School Movement Itself

    “The question is, what’s the difference?” said Nicole Stelle Garnett, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame who helped advise St. Isidore’s organizers and is a prominent voice making the case for religious charter schools.

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    Nicole Stelle Garnett

    Notre Dame Law School

  8. Catholic experts weigh in on Donald Trump’s latest indictment and potential impact on 2024 campaign

    Robert Schmuhl, professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, who critically observes the modern American presidency, told OSV News the latest Trump indictment “doesn’t come as much of a surprise.”

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    Robert Schmuhl

    American Studies

  9. The life lessons commencement speakers have given this year’s graduates

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    Juan Manuel Santos, former Colombian president, delivered the principal commencement address at the University of Notre Dame: “For the sake of this world, become peacemakers. It is better to be at peace than to prove to anyone that you are right. Work with peace in your heart. Find peace in your soul, and everything else will follow.”

  10. Advice From Famous Commencement Speakers

    Juan Manuel Santos, Position: Nobel Peace Prize recipient and former president of Colombia; Spoke at: University of Notre Dame

    Advice to graduates: "Whenever you have to choose between being at peace or proving yourself right, choose the way of peace. We have too many wars, conflicts, deaths, victims and violence because human beings insist that only they, not their fellow humans, know the correct course of action. It is better to be at peace than to prove to anyone that you are right. Work with peace in your heart, find peace in your soul, and everything else will follow." – May 21, 2023.

  11. The PGA Tour's blockbuster LIV Golf merger set the golf world alight... but what has happened? And what does the future of the sport look like?

    'Multiple lawsuits with potentially huge costs, very long potential timelines, and tremendous uncertainty regarding the legal outcomes have a way of focusing participants' attention on issues at hand and the financial and reputational stakes in the balance,' Richard Sheehan, a professor emeritus of finance at Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, told ESPN.

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    Richard Sheehan

    Mendoza College of Business