The Washington Post
U.S. prosecutors ask Supreme Court to quickly take up Trump immunity claims
December 11, 2023
Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame law school professor, described Monday’s filing as rare and said Smith was asking the Supreme Court for “extraordinary relief.”
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Bloomberg
The World’s Leader in Carbon Capture Shows Why It’s a Long Shot
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December 11, 2023
Deploying CCS is so energy intensive and expensive, said Emily Grubert, a professor at the University of Notre Dame. “If you're not required to do it, you're not going to do it.”
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Keough School of Global Affairs, College of Engineering
The Irish Times
Southern voters lukewarm on idea of unionist vice-president in united Ireland, study finds
December 11, 2023
The suggestion was among those made to voters during research for the North and South series for The Irish Times and Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South (Arins), which is a joint project of the Royal Irish Academy and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
USA Today
In 'extraordinary' move, prosecutors ask Supreme Court to decide if Trump may claim immunity
December 11, 2023
"It's always a longshot bid for the Supreme Court to hear a case like this, without waiting for the process to play out in the lower courts," said Notre Dame Law School Professor Derek Muller.
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Law School
Commonweal
The Jurisprudence & Politics of Abortion
December 11, 2023
Carter Snead is the Charles E. Rice Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame.
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Notre Dame Law School
Our Sunday Visitor
‘Messiah’: Handel’s remarkable masterpiece has stood the test of time
December 08, 2023
“‘Messiah’ is truly a universally Christian work of art,” Alexander Blachly, professor of musicology and director of the Notre Dame Chorale and Festival Baroque Orchestra at the University of Notre Dame, in Notre Dame, Indiana, commented. “Today, ‘Messiah’ is sung in concert halls as often as in churches, frequently by performers of every imaginable religion or lack thereof.”
Newsweek
Donald Trump Could Be Disqualified Due to 55-Year-Old Ruling
December 08, 2023
Derek T. Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, has filed a briefing to the Colorado Supreme Court. In it, he said that there have been several cases where presidential candidates were excluded from the ballot because they were deemed ineligible under the U.S constitution.
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Science
NASA opens door to cooperation with China on Moon rock research
December 08, 2023
The NASA move “is huge,” says Clive Neal, a lunar scientist at the University of Notre Dame.
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Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
CNN
Major ruling looms after Colorado Supreme Court hearing on whether the ‘insurrectionist ban’ applies to Trump
December 07, 2023
“The justices struggled with whether Colorado courts even have power to hear cases like this,” said Derek Muller, an election law expert at Notre Dame Law School who filed a brief that was neutral on disqualifying Trump.
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The Washington Post
Yes, people lie online. But it may matter less than we fear.
December 06, 2023
In “A History of Fake Things on the Internet,” computer scientist Walter J. Scheirer proposes that much of what has been disparaged as “misinformation” is best considered under a different rubric: that of art.
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Computer Science and Engineering
Bloomberg (Brazil) | Portuguese
Meta and IBM create AI alliance to share technology
December 05, 2023
The group must create a board of directors and a technical oversight committee. Participants include Oracle, AMD, Intel and Stability AI, as well as academic and research organizations such as the University of Notre Dame and the Mass Open Cloud Alliance.
Chicago Tribune
University of Notre Dame vice president named its next leader
December 05, 2023
The University of Notre Dame’s board of trustees has selected the Rev. Robert Dowd to serve as the school’s 18th president, the university announced Monday. His term will begin July 1.