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What Whitmer’s second Taiwan visit in 6 months means for Michigan
March 11, 2024
Visits from US officials have “increased sharply” since Pelosi’s trip, said Kyle Jaros, a professor and expert on Chinese foreign relations at the University of Notre Dame. Jaros noted that Whitmer, as “a rising star right in the Democratic Party” and a consistent subject of future presidential speculation, “making two visits right in the space of six months, I think will certainly catch the attention of both Taipei and Beijing.”
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Keough School of Global Affairs and Department of Political Science
National Catholic Reporter
CEO of Feeding America named recipient of Notre Dame's 2024 Laetare Medal
March 11, 2024
Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of Feeding America, has been named the recipient of the University of Notre Dame's 2024 Laetare Medal, the oldest and most prestigious honor given to American Catholics.
The Hill
Israel’s Hezbollah problem could outlast its war in Gaza
March 11, 2024
“We’re inching closer to a war. So far, the two parties have been careful not to do something that would unravel everything and lead to an all-out war,” said Asher Kaufman, a professor and Middle East expert at the University of Notre Dame.
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Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
WSBT TV
Operation Education: Large reading grant to help train Catholic teachers at Notre Dame
Video
March 11, 2024
At Notre Dame, the nearly half a million dollars in Lilly Endowment grant funding, will impact ACE Teaching Fellows. "Our program really rests on three pillars, growing as a professional, community, and also spirituality," says Kati Macaluso, the Academic Director for the ACE teaching fellows program.
The Conversation
Ramadan will be difficult for those in Gaza or other war zones – what does fasting mean for those who might be already starving?
March 11, 2024
By Mahan Mirza, Executive Director, Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion, and Teaching Professor of Islam and Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame.
Crux
2024 Laetare Medal winner Claire Babineaux-Fontenot called ‘beacon of hope’
March 11, 2024
Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, the chief executive of the nation’s largest nonprofit working to feed the hungry nationwide, will receive the 2024 Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame, one of the oldest and most prestigious honors given to American Catholics.
The Economist
Third-party candidates could be decisive in America’s election
March 08, 2024
Derek Muller of the University of Notre Dame reckons that “it's not difficult” to get on the ballot in 30 states.
ND Experts
Law School
The Washington Post
Trump ballot ruling raises new questions even as it answers others
March 08, 2024
University of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller agreed the majority opinion left the question muddled.
ND Experts
Law School
Nature
Geologists reject the Anthropocene as Earth’s new epoch — after 15 years
March 08, 2024
“We are now on a fundamentally unpredictable planet in ways that we have not experienced for the last 12,000 years,” says Julia Adeney Thomas, a historian at the University of Notre Dame, in Indiana.
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Department of History
CNN
Trump’s on the ballot, but the Supreme Court left key constitutional questions unanswered
March 06, 2024
“It appears the court is limiting how Congress goes about enforcing Section 3 through legislation, which may also limit Congress if it attempts to refuse to count electoral votes,” said Derek Muller, an election law expert at Notre Dame Law School.
ND Experts
Law School
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The Washington Post
Supreme Court rejects Colorado ruling, keeps Trump on ballot nationwide
March 05, 2024
Derek Muller, a Notre Dame Law School professor closely following the case, said the court’s decision “does not resolve the contentious insurrection issues, which will remain live and disputed in the public domain in the months to come.
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Law School
Politico
‘They didn’t do it clearly enough’: SCOTUS ruling prompts worries of another Jan. 6 crisis
March 05, 2024
“I think today’s opinion will at least close the door on some of that discourse,” said Derek Muller, a constitutional scholar at the University of Notre Dame.
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Law School