ND in the News: July 2023
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Reuters
Lawsuit seeks to block first publicly funded religious school in US
July 31, 2023
The law school at the University of Notre Dame, a Catholic institution in Indiana, helped with the application.
The Economist
What if Germany stopped making cars? Imagine Volkswagen goes the way of Nokia
July 31, 2023
Rüdiger Bachmann of the University of Notre Dame and others calculated that because the company was found fiddling with emissions readings, sales of other German brands in America fell by 166,000 cars, costing them $7.7bn in forgone revenues, or nearly a quarter of their total in 2014.
ND Experts
Economics
NPR
China's foreign minister hasn't been seen in a month. Analysts aren't optimistic
Audio
July 27, 2023
Joshua Eisenman, a professor at Notre Dame and author of a new book on China's relations with Africa, is less sure that Qin's disappearance is inconsequential.
Time
The U.S. Should Ditch AC and Use Middle Eastern Techniques to Cool its Cities
July 27, 2023
It doesn’t have to be like this, though. In hot climates around the world, people have been designing sustainable buildings to withstand extreme heat for hundreds of years, says John Onyango, a professor at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. “In the U.S. we've been so used to feeding on cheap energy that we forgot to innovate,” says Onyango. “We have many techniques we can use to reduce heat, and we can actually borrow from what happens in the Middle East and look at Iran or look at Dubai and Turkey.”
Our Sunday Visitor
Union delivers victory for cafeteria workers at Catholic University in Washington
July 24, 2023
“In an era where outsourcing of labor usually results in the deterioration of pay, benefits, and conditions, it’s refreshing to see this contract between Compass and Unite Here that will significantly improve workers’ lives over the next several years at Catholic University and other DC-area organizations,” said Daniel Graff, director of the Higgins Labor Program at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns, which also operates the Just Wage Initiative.
ND Experts
Center for Social Concerns
U.S. News & World Report
How to Handle Being Homesick at College
July 24, 2023
"Sometimes with the feeling of loneliness, we can start to feel like we're the only one who is experiencing that," says Margaret Morgan, director of the Center for Student Support and Care at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
Los Angeles Times
Would an occasional blackout help solve climate change?
July 21, 2023
The power grid is already prone to blackouts caused by events as small and difficult to avoid as a squirrel chewing on an electric line, said Emily Grubert, a civil engineer and environmental sociologist at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Keough School of Global Affairs, College of Engineering
Nature
Ben Franklin: founding father of anti-counterfeiting techniques
July 21, 2023
To better understand these printing techniques, Khachatur Manukyan at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and his colleagues imaged more than 600 paper notes printed between 1709 and 1790 and analysed their chemistry.