ND in the News: August 2023
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The Irish News
Patricia MacBride: Notre Dame 'Fighting Irish' phenomenon shows you don't have to be from Ireland to be Irish
August 23, 2023
On Saturday, over 48,000 American football fans will gather at Dublin’s Lansdowne Road stadium for the college football season opener between the University of Notre Dame’s 'Fighting Irish' and the US Naval Academy’s 'Midshipmen'.
The Wall Street Journal
Thought You Saved $60 on That Vacuum Cleaner? Think Again
August 23, 2023
Many consumers aren’t aware that these supposed sales are designed to manipulate them, said Joe Urbany, professor of marketing at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza School of Business and co-author of a new research paper on deceptive pricing published in this month’s edition of the academic Journal of Marketing.
ND Experts
Marketing
Associated Press
NRL Transfers NAUTILUS Instrument to University of Notre Dame: Strengthening Navy Research Academic Partnerships
August 22, 2023
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Navy Adm. Christopher W. Grady served as the guest speaker at an event finalizing the agreement to transfer U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) NAval Ultra-Trace Isotope Laboratory Universal Spectrometer (NAUTILUS) instrument to the University of Notre Dame on Aug. 18 in Washington, DC.
Los Angeles Times
This issue could knock Trump off ballots nationwide. Get ready for it to dominate primary season
August 21, 2023
“People are not anticipating how pervasive these will be,” said Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller, an election law expert.
ND Experts
Law School
BBC News
Chandrayaan-3, Luna-25: The race to unravel the mysteries of Moon's south pole
August 21, 2023
"It is yet to be proven that the water ice is accessible or mineable. In other words, are there reserves of water that can be extracted economically?" Clive Neal, a professor of planetary geology at the US University of Notre Dame, told me.
ND Experts
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
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Associated Press
US universities launch partnership to elevate free speech to counter threats to democracy
August 18, 2023
The participating schools include the University of Notre Dame, a private Catholic research school, Benedict College, a historically Black school in South Carolina, Rollins College, a small liberal arts school in Florida, and Ivy League member Cornell University, which in April announced that freedom of expression would be the theme for its 2023 school year.
Bloomberg
DeSantis Crushes Trump in Cash From Lawyers Seeking Alternative
August 17, 2023
“To the extent that attorneys are looking for an alternative on the Republican side, it’s no surprise to see them coalescing around DeSantis,” said Derek Muller, a Notre Dame University law professor who has studied lawyers’ political contributions.
ND Experts
Law School
The Japan Times
China’s gallium curbs to have limited impact on U.S. defense
August 17, 2023
According to Eugene Gholz, associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, other countries have also been producing the material, including South Korea, Canada and Ukraine, meaning that the know-how to produce gallium is not limited to China.
ND Experts
Political Science
America
Catholic political scholars weigh in on Trump indictment in Georgia and 2024: ‘It’s not a happy prospect’
August 16, 2023
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 Georgia indictment “reads like a who’s who of Trump loyalists — and lawyers — at the center of the alleged attempt to change the outcome of Georgia’s presidential vote count in 2020.”
ND Experts
American Studies
The Economist
Conservatives are attacking capitalism
August 11, 2023
In “Regime Change: Towards a Postliberal Future,” Patrick Deneen, a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, gives voice to a gloomy, reactionary strain of thinking.
The Independent
Study finds toxic ‘forever chemicals’ may be ‘intentionally added’ to some period products
August 11, 2023
Researchers, including Graham Peaslee from the University of Notre Dame in the US, said while these products are designed to make people feel comfortable during a menstrual bleed, their labels do not usually list the ingredients.
ND Experts
Experimental Nuclear Physics
The New Yorker
The Disciplining Power of Disappointment: In a new book, Sara Marcus argues that American politics are defined by unfulfilled desire.
August 11, 2023
If optimism is the disposition of the victor, then what is the outlook of the victim or survivor of conquest and domination? For Sara Marcus, an assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, it is disappointment. In a new book, “Political Disappointment,” Marcus describes the titular emotion as “untimely desire” or “a longing for fundamental change that outlasts a historical moment when it might have been fulfilled.”
ND Experts
English
Newsweek
Toxic 'Forever' Chemicals Found in Period Products
August 11, 2023
"[PFAs] have demonstrated environmental persistence, can bioaccumulate, and are known to have human and environmental toxicity," research lead Graham Peaslee, a professor at the University of Notre Dame, told Newsweek.
ND Experts
Experimental Nuclear Physics
The New York Times
We Had 44 Period and Incontinence Products Tested for Forever Chemicals. Many Were Contaminated.
August 11, 2023
In early 2023, we bought and mailed 44 different products to Graham Peaslee, whose University of Notre Dame lab studies PFAS in the environment and has performed tens of thousands of tests looking for signs of contamination with these substances in consumer products.
ND Experts
Experimental Nuclear Physics
The Washington Post
‘Forever chemicals’ found in period underwear, tampon wrappers
August 11, 2023
Researchers from the University of Notre Dame studied more than 120 different menstruation products — menstrual cups, pads, underwear and tampons — sold in the United States.
ND Experts
Experimental Nuclear Physics
Popular Science
This waddling robot could guide baby turtles to the sea
August 09, 2023
To both better understand their movements, as well as potentially help them out, a team of researchers at the University of Notre Dame recently designed and built their own turtle robot.
Indianapolis Star
'Softer side of incarceration.' Women's prison warden hopes grad ceremony is inspiration
August 09, 2023
The graduation marked a milestone for the prison's inaugural class of the Women's College Partnership, a collaboration between Marian University and the University of Notre Dame.
The Hill
Trump faces uphill battle in moving case from DC
August 09, 2023
Jimmy Gurulé, a Notre Dame Law School professor and former federal prosecutor, said an attempt by Trump to transfer the venue would be frivolous.
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Notre Dame Law School