ND in the News: September 2023
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Yahoo! Finance
Child care programs face massive hit as American Rescue Plan funds dry up
September 30, 2023
Chloe Gibbs, University of Notre Dame Department of Economics Assistant Professor tells Yahoo Finance that those estimates likely reflect more of a "worst case scenario," but that the U.S. "will experience some contractions in the supply of childcare."
The New York Times
Mosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress
September 29, 2023
Such largess is unusual — and not a sustainable pathway for vector control research, said John Grieco, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame who coordinates the multicountry spatial repellent trial, which is also running in countries including Mali and Sri Lanka.
Bloomberg
Got Plastic With a No. 2 Recycling Symbol? Beware a Toxic Problem
September 28, 2023
One of the first people she emailed those results to, in the summer of 2020, was Graham Peaslee, a nuclear physicist at the University of Notre Dame who’d pioneered a novel technique for revealing the presence of PFAS in everyday items.
ND Experts
Experimental Nuclear Physics
OSV News
Writers’ Strike Over As Union Secures Landmark Deal With AI-Related Labor Protections
September 28, 2023
“It’s just the foundational idea that workers must be foregrounded in businesses’ estimation of thinking about their use of labor,” Daniel Graff, director of the Higgins Labor Program at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns, told OSV News. “Workers’ interests and workers’ inherent dignity is something that needs to be considered — and at the same time, the commitment to workers having a voice in the process.”
ND Experts
Center for Social Concerns
The Economist
States are becoming more brazen about killing foes abroad
September 27, 2023
Mary Ellen O’Connell of the University of Notre Dame in America argues “there is no grey zone”.
ND Experts
Notre Dame Law School
The Hill
Cuba, Nicaragua can no longer whitewash their religious freedom violations
September 27, 2023
Last month, the president of the University of Notre Dame, Rev. John Jenkins, said that “Ortega’s attempt to extinguish Catholicism in Nicaragua merits world condemnation on a much larger and louder scale.”
Forbes
Can These College Presidents Help Revive Campus Democratic Discourse?
Audio
September 26, 2023
Participating institutions include Benedict College, Claremont McKenna College, Cornell University, DePauw University, Duke University, James Madison University, Rollins College, Rutgers University, University of Notre Dame, University of Richmond, Wellesley College, Wesleyan University, and University of Pittsburgh.
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The New York Times
Justice Kagan Calls for the Supreme Court to Adopt an Ethics Code
September 25, 2023
In remarks at Notre Dame, the justice also discussed ideological divisions at the court, the role of precedent and a sharp exchange in the recent student loans case.
C-SPAN
Justice Elena Kagan Speaks at Notre Dame Law School
Video
September 25, 2023
Justice Elena Kagan speaks at Notre Dame Law School.
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Bloomberg
Kagan Hopeful for Supreme Court Code Amid Ethics Allegations
September 25, 2023
Adopting a code “would go far in persuading other people that we were adhering to the highest standards of conduct,” Kagan said Friday at Notre Dame Law School.
Politico
Kagan hopes Supreme Court’s ideological divide on precedent isn’t permanent
September 25, 2023
“I surely hope not,” Kagan said during an appearance at the University of Notre Dame law school, when asked if the pattern of conservative justices overruling the court’s prior decisions and liberal justices seeking to preserve them is likely to persist.
NBC News
Justice Elena Kagan says Supreme Court ethics code would be 'a good thing'
September 25, 2023
Kagan, in an appearance at Notre Dame Law school, said that signing onto a binding code would help convince the public that "we were adhering to the highest standards of conduct."
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The Hill
Watch live: Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan speaks at Notre Dame Law School
Video
September 25, 2023
Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan is slated to deliver remarks Friday afternoon during a forum hosted by the Notre Dame Law School.
CNN
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan talks ethics and her relationship with the chief justice
September 25, 2023
They came as part of wide-ranging remarks that Kagan delivered at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana – where she also explained her side of a dispute of sorts with Chief Justice John Roberts after the majority of the court invalidated President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program last term.