ND in the News: January 2024
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Nature
Japan’s successful Moon landing was the most precise ever
January 22, 2024
“In Apollo 16 samples, we found exotic basalts which were most likely ejected from Mare Nectaris,” says Clive Neal, a planetary geologist at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
ND Experts
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
OSV News
DeSantis ends presidential campaign, endorses former rival Trump
January 21, 2024
Robert Schmuhl, professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, who critically observes the modern American presidency, told OSV News that DeSantis “never fulfilled the expectations that many Republicans had for him.”
ND Experts
American Studies
Slate
Yes, Copying From Wikipedia Is Plagiarism
January 19, 2024
“The answer is always the same: yes. You can use it, but you have to cite it because you didn’t write it,” said Susan Blum, a professor at the University of Notre Dame whose scholarship has focused on plagiarism and educational anthropology.
ND Experts
Anthropology
LIVENOW FROM FOX
Biden works with Senator on border deal
Video Audio
January 19, 2024
Texas’ refusal to allow Border Patrol agents into a park along the U.S.-Mexico border is a new marker in the state’s deepening rift with the Biden administration over immigration. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is working with lawmakers to hammer out a border security funding plan — with Erin Corcoran, professor in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs
The Irish Times
New research shows North-South divisions on Commonwealth
January 19, 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. This is the second year of the collaboration between The Irish Times and ARINS.
Newsweek
Ireland Turns on Joe Biden Over Israel
January 18, 2024
Michael Desch, a professor of international relations at the University of Notre Dame who specializes in international relations, told Newsweek: "Blood is generally thicker than water and President Biden has had a good relationship with the Emerald Isle over the years given his family ties to the Old Sod. But there are limits to how much Irish ancestry will make up for the gallons of innocent blood being shed in Gaza by Israel with the Biden administration's reluctant support."
Meanwhile, Robert Schmuhl, professor emeritus of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame and adjunct professor of law and government at Dublin City University, said: "President Biden's Irish heritage is important to his identity, but its value in Ireland is in jeopardy for what appears to many to be a lack of concern for the Palestinian people caught up in the war in Gaza."
Bloomberg
Big Law Skews Liberal in Amicus Briefs, New Study Finds
January 17, 2024
In a paper forthcoming in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, University of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller takes a new and interesting approach to identifying the ideological leanings of large law firms.
ND Experts
Law School
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OSV News
Trump wins Iowa caucuses as DeSantis edges out Haley for second
January 16, 2024
“More than anything, Donald Trump’s victory in Iowa demonstrates how much he and his political organization have learned since 2016,” Robert Schmuhl, professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, who critically observes the modern American presidency, told OSV News.
ND Experts
American Studies
Cato Institute
The US Military Role in the Red Sea – Now Turning Offensive – Is a Bad Deal
January 15, 2024
Eugene Gholz is an adjunct scholar for the Cato Institute’s Defense and Foreign Policy Department and associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Political Science
Vox
The fight over plagiarism is the harbinger of a messy new era
January 15, 2024
“Plagiarism is the use of someone else’s words or ideas without giving them credit,” says Susan Blum, an anthropology professor at Notre Dame and the author of My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture.
ND Experts
Anthropology
The Washington Post
‘Anti-pope.’ ‘Blasphemous.’ Criticism of Francis comes in strident terms.
January 12, 2024
“I’m stunned at the criticism of Pope Francis by conservatives,” said John McGreevy, a historian of Catholicism and provost at the University of Notre Dame. This extremely public nature of papal criticism, he said, is totally new and modern.
ND Experts
History
Crux
Catholic groups push back against Biden immigration plans
January 12, 2024
Donald Kerwin, a senior research associate at the University of Notre Dame Keough School of Global Affairs, told Crux raising the asylum standard would be a bad faith effort to reform the asylum system.
The Conversation, Yahoo! News
Why both Israel and Hezbollah are eager to avoid tit-for-tat attacks escalating into full-blown war
January 10, 2024
But how likely is a full-scale conflict between Israel and Hezbollah? The Conversation turned to Asher Kaufman, an expert on Lebanon-Israel relations at the University of Notre Dame, to assess what could happen next.
ND Experts
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Associated Press
Study Shows Faith, Spirituality Boost Mental Health, Especially During Isolation and Despair
January 10, 2024
“The data produced through this project is like the Webb telescope, only instead of distant stars, it has revealed the interior lives of many Americans — how they think and feel about their relationship to a higher power,” writes University of Notre Dame Professor David Campbell in the study’s introduction.
ND Experts
Political Science
