Financial Times
How arming Ukraine is stretching the US defence industry
Video
January 31, 2023
(subscription required) This affliction is not unique to the US, says Eugene Gholz, professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, as armies always use more weapons than intended.
CNET
Protect Your Tax Refund From Identity Theft With This Quick Tax Trick
January 30, 2023
"It's totally reasonable to assume that your Social Security number has been compromised at least once, if not many times," said Notre Dame technology professor Mike Chapple in an interview with Forbes.
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Mendoza
National Catholic Register
Mapping the US’ Shifting Educational Landscape
January 30, 2023
Nicole Garnett is a professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School and a fellow of the university’s Institute for Educational Initiatives.
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Notre Dame Law School
Bloomberg
Proud Boys on Trial for Sedition
Audio
January 30, 2023
Former federal prosecutor Jimmy Gurule, a professor at Notre Dame Law School discusses the trial of five Proud Boys, including the former leader of the group, Enrique Tarrio, for seditious conspiracy.
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Notre Dame Law School
ABC News
What to know about PFAS after Thinx underwear settles class-action lawsuit
January 30, 2023
An article published in 2020 by Sierra magazine first brought attention to the ingredients in Thinx products. The article's author, Jessian Choy, had Thinx menstrual underwear and a similar product from another brand tested by Dr. Graham Peaslee, a physics professor at the University of Notre Dame, whose research focuses on PFAS.
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Experimental Nuclear Physics
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Transitions: Columbia U. Names Next President; U. of South Florida Selects New Provost
January 26, 2023
Jeffrey F. Rhoads, executive director of the Purdue Institute for National Security and a professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, has been named vice president for research at the University of Notre Dame.
The Tablet
Supreme Court to Hear Case of Postal Worker Forced to Work on Sundays
January 25, 2023
Richard Garnett, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and director of the Notre Dame Program on Church, State, and Society, told The Tablet that the court’s decision to hear this case is welcome news because it “provides the court with an opportunity to revisit, and correct, a 1977 ruling that most observers, across the political spectrum, agree was wrongly decided.”
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Notre Dame Law School
Inside Higher Ed
Character and Admission
January 23, 2023
Paul Mueller, the director of enrollment strategy at the University of Notre Dame, asserted that his institution’s mission encourages individuals to be a powerful force for good in the world.
The Irish Times
‘Grave mistake’ to put protocol row on long finger, says Bertie Ahern
January 23, 2023
He added that any referendum on a united Ireland would require “groundwork” and welcomed recent work by the Royal Irish Academy and University of Notre Dame on “what it would look like”.
Irish Central
Thoughts on a future border poll for Ireland
January 22, 2023
A recent major professional study involving polling and some in-depth interviews, led by The Irish Times in collaboration with the Royal Irish Academy and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame – they use the acronym ARINS for the study – provides some interesting perspectives on the Irish unity question.
The Hill
It’s time for a climate moonshot in America
January 21, 2023
Raymond Offenheiser is the director of the Pulte Institute for Global Development at the University of Notre Dame and President Emeritus of Oxfam America.
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McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business; Keough School of Global Affairs
Slate
The Politics of Being Pope Francis
January 20, 2023
Making things more tenuous, according to Ulrich Lehner, a theology professor at the University of Notre Dame, Francis has rejected the typical practice of using the College of Cardinals as an advisory board in favor of consulting a small circle of trusted advisers.
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Department of Theology
NBC News
Thinx to pay up to $5M to settle claims its period underwear contained potentially harmful chemicals
January 20, 2023
The presence of PFAS appears to have been first reported in January 2020 in the Sierra Club’s magazine, “Sierra,” with the headline, “My Menstrual Underwear Has Toxic Chemicals in It.” Reporter Jessian Choy sent her Thinx to a University of Notre Dame nuclear scientist, who found high levels of PFAS, “especially on the inside layers of the crotch.”
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Experimental Nuclear Physics
USA Today
Fact check: No, cell data used to arrest Idaho suspect doesn't prove '2000 Mules' correct
January 20, 2023
"The data isn't good enough to tell you for sure that somebody physically went up to a ballot box," said Aaron Striegel, a computer science and engineering professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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Computer Science and Engineering