ND in the News: July 2023
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Benjamin Franklin used science to protect his money from counterfeiters
July 19, 2023
Most of the silver and gold coins brought to the British American colonies were rapidly drained away to pay for manufactured goods imported from abroad, leaving the Colonies without sufficient monetary supply to expand their economy,” study co-author and physicist at the University of Notre Dame Khachatur Manukyan said in a statement.
Associated Press
How Benjamin Franklin laid groundwork for the US dollar by foiling early counterfeiters
July 17, 2023
A team at the University of Notre Dame has shed new light on his methods via advanced scanning techniques that reveal some of Franklin’s methods in greater detail — along the way, also providing one more reason Franklin appears on the $100 bill.
The New York Times
What Benjamin Franklin Learned While Fighting Counterfeiters
July 17, 2023
The study draws on more than 600 artifacts held by the University of Notre Dame, said Khachatur Manukyan, a physicist at that institution and an author of the new paper.
South China Morning Post
US expected to get around China’s export controls on gallium, an essential component for American military radar tech
July 17, 2023
Eugene Gholz, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana in the US, said Beijing was in part aiming to disrupt the defence supply chain by countering the semiconductor export control, considering Washington’s “fear of vulnerability” as an opportunity to increase its leverage against the US.
ND Experts
Political Science
Newsweek
Benjamin Franklin Developed a Money Invention We Didn't Know About
July 17, 2023
A team of experts from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana detected the secret techniques after analyzing hundreds of paper bills printed more than 200 years ago.
The Wall Street Journal
How Benjamin Franklin Helped Foil Early American Money Counterfeiters
July 17, 2023
Khachatur Manukyan, research associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Notre Dame, led a team that analyzed nearly 600 paper money notes printed in America from 1709 to 1790.
Working Fathers Podcast (Australia)
What Gave Rise to the Breadwinner? | What's Next?
Audio
July 17, 2023
Episodes 2&5: Associate Professor Lee T. Gettler, University of Notre Dame, is the Director of the Hormones, Health and Human Behavior Laboratory at Notre Dame and a faculty affiliate of the Eck Institute for Global Health.
ND Experts
Anthropology
National Catholic Reporter
Sending cluster bombs to Ukraine contradicts good sense and Catholic teaching
July 14, 2023
San Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy, in a widely noted talk last March at the University of Notre Dame, spoke of a need to update an "atrophying" just war theory, yet described the situation in Ukraine as one of those extreme moments when armed intervention is necessary. He termed the moral justification for defending Ukraine "unassailable."
CBS News
Environmental group tests to find the best water filters for removing PFAS
July 13, 2023
"We've since discovered that all these PFAS are immune suppressants, so they suppress your immune system and that means any opportunistic disease, including some types of cancer, could take over," said Graham Peaslee, who is a biochemist.
ND Experts
Experimental Nuclear Physics
Science
‘Win-win-win’ strategy reduces dangerous parasite infections in African villages
July 13, 2023
In a randomized, controlled trial, researchers led by Jason Rohr of the University of Notre Dame paid residents of eight villages in Senegal to remove water plants every 3 months.
Our Sunday Visitor
U.S. to provide Ukraine cluster munitions opposed by the church as ‘inhumane’
July 12, 2023
Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor at Notre Dame Law School who specializes in international law and conflict resolution, told OSV News Ukraine “has the legal and moral right to defend itself.”
ND Experts
Notre Dame Law School
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The Wall Street Journal
The Accountant Shortage Is Showing Up in Financial Statements
July 11, 2023
Smaller companies in need of accounting staff often decide not to fill the jobs because they either can’t afford to or can’t justify the cost-benefit trade-off, while their bigger counterparts might be unable to find the right people, said Andrew Imdieke, an assistant professor of accounting at the University of Notre Dame.
CNN
The Supreme Court’s continuing march to the right
July 10, 2023
“I think the justices, in a sense – they were ships passing in the night,” said Richard Garnett, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame who signed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the aspiring wedding web designer who prevailed in the case. “They disagreed about what the case was about.”
ND Experts
Notre Dame Law School
The Washington Post
How a tree dispute between New Jersey neighbors took over the internet
July 10, 2023
But trees “are an endless source of dispute,” according to Bruce Huber, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, and the case quickly rippled from Shinway’s Kinnelon community onto the internet, where it raked in millions of views, inspired memes and became entertainment for many.
ND Experts
Notre Dame Law School
The Irish Times
‘It is not as simple as Catholics voting for a united Ireland and Protestants voting against’
July 10, 2023
Research conducted last year by ARINS – which is a joint research project of the Royal Irish Academy and the Keough-Naughton Centre for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame – and The Irish Times on future political arrangements on the island of Ireland, relied on two major polls and on focus groups – with some interesting and unexpected results.
Yahoo
Kakhovka Dam breach in Ukraine caused economic, agricultural and ecological devastation that will last for years
July 07, 2023
Susanne Wengle, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame, and Vitalii Dankevych, Doctor of Economics, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Public Administration and National Security, Polissia National University, Zhytomyr National Agroecological University.
ND Experts
Department of Political Science