ESPN
PGA Tour and LIV Golf unite: What we do and don't know
June 07, 2023
Richard Sheehan, a professor emeritus of finance at Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business who specializes in the economics of sports, said in a statement provided to ESPN that "economic interests do generally win out in the long term."
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Mendoza College of Business
The Washington Post
How can I avoid eating food with ‘forever’ chemicals?
June 06, 2023
“For the average consumer, there’s no way to avoid it,” said Graham Peaslee, a physics professor at the University of Notre Dame. “But, you can do some smart things.”
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Experimental Nuclear Physics
The Indiana Lawyer
Notre Dame Law dean Cole receives Legal Service Award from Becket Fund for school’s Religious Liberty Initiative
June 06, 2023
University of Notre Dame Law School Dean G. Marcus Cole has been awarded the 2023 Legal Service Award from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.
The Wall Street Journal
Nation’s First Religious Charter School Approved in Oklahoma
June 06, 2023
John Meiser, a professor at the University of Notre Dame’s law school who is advising the charter school’s organizers, said this issue would be the next logical extension of recent Supreme Court rulings “about the rights of religious individuals and organizations to participate equally in state programs that support educational choice.”
The Tablet
Oklahoma School Board Approves Nation’s First Publicly Funded Catholic Charter School
June 06, 2023
Nicole Garnett, a University of Notre Dame law school professor who is part of the university’s Religious Liberty Initiative advising the Oklahoma dioceses in their charter school application, said charter schools are not state actors.
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Notre Dame Law School
Reuters
Oklahoma approves first publicly funded Catholic school in US
June 06, 2023
The law school at the University of Notre Dame, a Catholic institution in Indiana, helped with the application
CNN
State school board approves application for first publicly funded religious charter school in the nation
June 06, 2023
During Monday’s three-hour meeting, board members debated the constitutionality of approving the decision, but decided to move forward and cast their votes. John Meiser, managing director for domestic litigation at the University of Notre Dame’s Religious Liberty Clinic, said there is precedent that the school should be approved – even with its religious affiliation.
Quartz
An Oklahoma school has become the first to dismantle the wall between church and state
June 06, 2023
But the First Amendment also guarantees the “free exercise” of religion and so prohibits anti-religious discrimination by governments, argue Nicole Stelle Garnett and Richard Garnett of Notre Dame Law School, who helped the the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the Diocese of Tulsa with their charter school application.
Vox
Can the West keep supplying Ukraine with enough artillery?
June 06, 2023
“Nobody has as much as they want, whenever they want it,” said Eugene Gholz, associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, and former Pentagon adviser for manufacturing and industrial base policy. “And yet, somehow, they manage to fight.”
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Political Science
The New York Times
These Activists Distrust Voting Machines. Just Don’t Call Them Election Deniers.
June 05, 2023
“You sow a seed of doubt, and that will grow and fester into a conspiracy theory,” said Tim Weninger, a computer science professor at the University of Notre Dame who studies misinformation on social media.
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Computer Science and Engineering
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The Wall Street Journal
‘It’s Pretty Horrific but Fascinating Nonetheless.’ Inside the New Wave of Atomic Tourism.
June 05, 2023
“Whenever there is talk about nuking, people get interested in the atomic bomb,” said Michael Wiescher, a nuclear physicist at the University of Notre Dame who sees enrollment go up in his “Nuclear War” course when it’s in the news. His colleague Ani Aprahamian finds atomic tourism a curious phenomenon. “I’m a nuclear physicist and would find going to a test site fascinating in any case,” she said, “but perhaps it’s nostalgia or a desire to understand that drives others.”
Associated Press
Vatican questions how priest moved $17 million meant for missionary work into investment fund
June 01, 2023
Lloyd Mayer, a professor specializing in nonprofit law at Notre Dame Law School, said he didn’t see any “red flags” in the transfers, but “a few yellow flags.”
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Notre Dame Law School
Forbes
Six Institutions Invited To Join Association Of American Universities
June 01, 2023
University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., said, “our mission at Notre Dame is to be a preeminent research university, provide an unsurpassed undergraduate education and to have all we do informed by our Catholic mission. We are honored to be invited to join the AAU, heartened by the AAU board’s recognition of our progress as a research university, and we look forward to participating in this august organization.”
