Time
For University Leaders, Silence on the Israel-Hamas War is Not Golden
November 30, 2023
Since the 1960s, college presidents such as Notre Dame’s Theodore Hesburgh, Yale’s Kingman Brewster and Berkeley’s Clark Kerr—all of whom have featured on the cover of TIME—have made an impact on the discourse surrounding global issues.
NPR
Ceasefire in Middle East extended one day at a time
November 30, 2023
Can mediation help deliver a longer truce? Here & Now‘s Scott Tong talks with Laurie Nathan, director of the Mediation Program at Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, about the possibilities and limitations of mediation.
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Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs
Le Quotidien de l'Art | French
The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art opens its doors in Indiana
November 30, 2023
Named after major patrons of the project estimated at $66 million – the late Ernestine Raclin, her daughter Carmen
and his son-in-law Chris Murphy, Raclin Murphy Museum of Art offers 6,500 m2 of exhibition spacesYahoo! News
Prehistoric women were probably better at hunting than men, scientists suggest
November 29, 2023
Women have a metabolism better suited to endurance, according to Cara Ocobock, director of the Human Energetics Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame.
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Anthropology
Bloomberg
Voting Rights Law Faces More Setbacks With Conservative Judges
November 29, 2023
Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame who studies election law, said that federal appeals courts with a number of judges appointed by Trump and other Republicans, including the Eleventh and Eighth circuits, tend to have a more conservative approach to interpreting statutes.
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Law School
Fox News
Prehistoric women believed to be hunters, not just gatherers, in new study of hormones and genetics
November 28, 2023
Cara Ocobock, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and director of the Human Energetics Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, recently discovered some interesting facts about prehistoric women.
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Anthropology
The Guardian
Can you solve it? How cut-throat are you? The ruthless pursuit of power
November 27, 2023
Today’s puzzle concerns a group of five power-hungry schemers who are all desperate to become the top boss. Your task will be to work out how the person of lowest status can triumph above all the others. The puzzle is a new variant of what are often called “pirate-division” problems, and was written by Joel David Hamkins, who is currently the O’Hara Professor of Logic at the University of Notre Dame and was previously Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford.
The Ray D'Arcy Show | RTE Radio 1
Pre-historic women hunted just as much as men
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November 27, 2023
Ray is joined by Cara Ocobock, from the University of Notre Dame in the U.S., a co-author of a new study which suggests that prehistoric women frequently engaged in hunting as much as men and their anatomy also made them better suited for it.
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Anthropology
OSV News
Sometimes Called ‘Little Lent,’ Advent Zeros In On Preparation, Which Can Include Penitence
November 24, 2023
Timothy O’Malley, the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and the academic director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, emphasized that much of the church’s year has historically been penitential.
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McGrath Institute for Church Life
USA Today
With three major recent losses, is the effort to knock Trump off ballots in 2024 over?
November 20, 2023
But Derek Muller, a University of Notre Dame law professor who has closely followed the issue, said it’s too soon to declare the effort to knock Trump off the ballot over.
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Law School