ND in the News: May 2024
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South Bend Tribune
'Learn every day': The Rev. John Jenkins reflects on legacy of 19 years leading Notre Dame
May 16, 2024
When the University of Notre Dame’s Board of Trustees first announced the Rev. John I. Jenkins would become its 17th president 20 years ago, the 50-year-old philosopher from Omaha, Neb., began thinking.
Fast Company
War takes a toll on the environment. Here’s how to change that
May 16, 2024
By Richard Marcantonio, an assistant professor of management and organization at the University of Notre Dame, and Josefina Echavarria Alvarez, a professor of the practice in international peace studies at the University of Notre Dame.
NPR
What's worse for disease spread: animal loss, climate change or urbanization?
May 15, 2024
"There are limited resources for monitoring, controlling and managing infectious diseases," says Jason Rohr, a biologist at the University of Notre Dame and study co-author.
U.S. News & World Report
I Oversaw Successful Relief Operations in Wars from Iraq to Afghanistan. Here’s What’s Going So Badly Wrong in Gaza.
May 15, 2024
This commentary is adapted from an analysis that ran first in The Conversation — By Raymond Offenheiser, a former president of Oxfam America, and a professor and director of the McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business; Keough School of Global Affairs
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Here’s Why So Little Humanitarian Is Reaching Gaza
May 15, 2024
By Ray Offenheiser, director of the Pulte Institute for Global Development, part of the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, and president emeritus of Oxfam America.
ND Experts
McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business; Keough School of Global Affairs
The Conversation
Wars cause widespread pollution and environmental damage − here’s how to address it in peace accords
May 14, 2024
By Richard Marcantonio, Assistant Professor of Management and Organization, and Josefina Echavarria Alvarez, Professor of the Practice in International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame.
NBC News
San Francisco poised to become first U.S. city to ban 'forever chemicals' in firefighter gear
May 14, 2024
In 2020, a study out of the University of Notre Dame raised serious safety concerns about the prevalence of PFAS in firefighter clothing.
Marketplace
How tariffs compare in the Biden and Trump eras
May 14, 2024
“Tariffs at a basic level are a disincentive to import. And where do you get stuff if you’re not importing? You buy domestically,” said Robert Johnson, an economics professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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NBC News
Trump, gun owners and Jan. 6 rioters: Tough-on-crime Justice Alito displays empathy for some criminal defendants
May 13, 2024
Sherif Girgis, a former Alito law clerk who is a professor at Notre Dame Law School, said in relation to Alito’s recent comments that it is “hard to draw firm conclusions from oral argument,” noting that the immunity case in particular “raises extremely unusual constitutional questions.”
The Conversation
I’ve spent decades overseeing relief operations around the world, and here’s what’s going wrong in Gaza
May 10, 2024
By Raymond Offenheiser, Professor of global affairs, director of the McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business, University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business; Keough School of Global Affairs
The Hill
How Congress would decide the presidency if there’s an Electoral College tie
May 09, 2024
“It would lead to a pretty significant, potentially — I won’t call it disastrous — but disruptive election process if it does happen,” said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Law School
Associated Press
The $230 billion donor-advised fund industry gets an IRS hearing
May 09, 2024
The IRS seems to be concerned that “there are abuses out there and there’s money going places it probably shouldn’t,” said Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Notre Dame Law School
The Guardian
Biodiversity loss is biggest driver of infectious disease outbreaks, says study
May 09, 2024
“The take-home messages are that biodiversity loss, climate change and introduced species increase disease, whereas urbanisation decreases it,” said lead researcher Prof Jason Rohr from the University of Notre Dame in the US.
The Washington Post
How climate change is raising the risks of another pandemic
May 08, 2024
The connection appeared with all types of infections and their hosts, suggesting that as the planet continues to warm and humans continue to disrupt nature, increases in disease spread “will be consistent and widespread,” said Jason Rohr, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame and one of the study’s authors.
phys.org
Disadvantaged entrepreneurs often fear success, but new research can help
May 08, 2024
Michael H. Morris, a professor of the practice in the University of Notre Dame's Keough School and director of the Urban Poverty and Business Initiative, a program offered by the school's McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business, is lead author of a journal article where these recommendations are outlined, as recently published in Business Horizons.
ND Experts
McKenna Center for Human Development & Global Business
Inside Indiana Business
Notre Dame names dean of Keough School of Global Affairs
May 07, 2024
A University of Michigan leader and expert in Chinese domestic politics has been named the new dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.