ND in the News: January 2024
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The Washington Post
UPS to cut 12,000 jobs as shipping volume falls and labor costs rise
January 31, 2024
UPS is still weathering the transition out of the pandemic retail economy of 2020 and 2021, said Jim O’Rourke, a business professor at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Mendoza College of Business
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The Washington Post
Tired of hostile Washington, China courts Indiana and Minnesota
January 30, 2024
There’s been “a huge pullback” on the U.S. side, said Kyle Jaros, an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame working on a book on the topic. “China is reaching out and finding it hard to find partners.”
ND Experts
Keough School of Global Affairs and Department of Political Science
Our Sunday Visitor
Is the federal budget a ‘moral document’?
January 30, 2024
“Of course it is a moral document,” Joseph P. Kaboski, an economics professor and fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, told OSV News. “Any budget tells you something about what you prioritize.”
ND Experts
Economics
Inside Higher Ed
In Defense of the Morality of Citation
January 29, 2024
OPINION: Susan D. Blum is a professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, holding concurrent appointments as a fellow in the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, the Institute for Educational Initiatives, the Eck Institute for Global Health, and the William J. Shaw Center for Children and Families.
ND Experts
Anthropology
Fox News
Biden vs. Johnson border standoff: Experts split on who has the authority to solve crisis
January 29, 2024
"U.S. immigration law is clearly a federal matter. Both Congress and the Executive Branch have roles to play," said Erin B. Corcoran, executive director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. "However, any permanent changes to federal laws or funding for immigration enforcement is the responsibility of Congress. Our immigration system is in need of significant congressional reform, and such reform must come from Congress."
ND Experts
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs
USA Today
Iowa bill aims to clear path for Trump by banning 14th Amendment primary ballot challenges
January 29, 2024
“It would pretty clearly foreclose any challenge to a presidential candidate for being not qualified under the United States Constitution,” Derek Muller, an election law professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School, said of the bill.
ND Experts
Law School
The Wall Street Journal
Our Bosses Tell Us to Unplug From Work. We Don’t Believe They Mean It.
January 29, 2024
Casher Belinda is an assistant professor of management and organization at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Management & Organization
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Fox News
Iowa secretary of state introduces bill that could limit 14th Amendment ballot challenges against Trump
January 26, 2024
"It would pretty clearly foreclose any challenge to a presidential candidate for being not qualified under the United States Constitution," Derek Muller, an election law professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School, told the Des Moines Register of the proposal.
ND Experts
Law School
Associated Press
How genocide officially became a crime and why South Africa is accusing Israel of committing it
January 26, 2024
The reason the genocide convention exists “is related directly to what the (Nazi) Third Reich attempted to do in eliminating a people, the Jewish people, not only of Germany, but of Eastern Europe, of Russia,” said Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor of law and international peace studies at Notre Dame University’s Kroc Institute.
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Notre Dame Law School
The Conversation
Disaster communications can be more effective when using different messaging strategies
January 25, 2024
My colleagues — Eunae Yoo and Lu (Lucy) Yan from Indiana University, and Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez from the University of Notre Dame — and I conducted a study that challenges the idea of “speaking with one voice.”
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IT, Analytics and Operations
National Catholic Reporter
University of Notre Dame announces initiative to study, combat poverty
January 25, 2024
The University of Notre Dame announced on Jan. 23 that it will be launching a new academic initiative focused on studying and combating poverty.
ND Experts
Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
The Hill
US strikes on Houthis risk triggering wider Middle East war
January 24, 2024
David Cortright, a professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame’s global policy school, said in an email to The Hill the strikes “contradict the recent message” from Secretary of State Antony Blinken to avoid widening the Middle East conflict. “The use of force to defend ships under attack in the Gulf may be justifiable,” he wrote, “but it is not clear that strikes on targets in Yemen qualify as self-defense or meet the requirement of military necessity.”
ND Experts
Keough School of Global Affairs
The Irish Times
Protestant voters in NI strongly opposed to use of Tricolour for united Ireland - poll
January 23, 2024
The opinion polls are part of the North and South series, a research collaboration between ARINS and The Irish Times. ARINS, Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South, is a joint project of the Royal Irish Academy and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame.