ND in the News: 2024

2023 2024 2025

  1. Potential 2024 ‘Chaos’: Election Deniers Refusing to Certify Results

    ... Derek Muller, a professor at Notre Dame Law School who has written about the issue of local certification of elections.

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    Derek Muller

    Law School

  2. Weekend: War in Ukraine (interview begins at 44:20)

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    I spoke to Professor Marianne Cusato, Notre Dame University School of Architecture, in the U.S., and she’s just been to Ukraine, her second visit to the country.

     

  3. The Real Lessons of the Alabama IVF Ruling

    O. Carter Snead is a law professor at the University of Notre Dame and the author of What It Means to be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics.

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    Carter Snead

    Notre Dame Law School

  4. Joe Biden Faces Irish Anger on St. Patrick's Day

    Robert Schmuhl, Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Ireland's Exiled Children, said that while there were "brickbats of criticism" over Biden's approach to Gaza, Ireland and the U.S. still have "important and strong" ties.

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    Robert Schmuhl

    American Studies

  5. Image of Donald Trump leading crowd down flag-lined street is AI-generated | Fact check

    The original also contains several hallmarks of AI-generated images that are less prominent in the more recent version, Walter Scheirer, an associate professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, told USA TODAY in an email.

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    Walter Scheirer

    Computer Science and Engineering

  6. The U.S. spent $179 million in 2023 minting pennies and nickels, and $100 bills are increasingly meh. Why do we still need cash?

    “As the world becomes increasingly cashless, people who are already at a disadvantage may become increasingly disadvantaged,” said Christopher Bechler, a professor at Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.

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  7. The New York Editorial

    Breaking the Silence: Confronting America's Mental Health Crisis

    Expert Opinion 3: Jennifer Hames is an associate clinical professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame and is the clinic director of the Notre Dame Psychological Services Center, which is the training clinic for doctoral students in the clinical psychology Ph.D. program. Hames' area of expertise focuses on empirically supported treatments, suicide risk assessment and management, cognitive behavioral therapy, clinical supervision and evidence-based practice.

  8. Carbon-neutral beef? Argentina's new certification could promote more climate-friendly livestock production

    By Paul Winters, Professor of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame.

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    Paul Winters

    Keough School of Global Affairs

  9. The Conversation

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    Paul Winters

    Keough School of Global Affairs

  10. Jerry Seinfeld And Bernie Sanders Among 2024’s Noteworthy Commencement Speakers

    University of Notre Dame President, the Reverend John I. Jenkins, will be the principal speaker at that institution’s 179th Commencement Ceremony on May 19. 

  11. 2024 Laetare Medal winner Claire Babineaux-Fontenot called ‘beacon of hope’

    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.

  12. 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?

    By Mahan Mirza, Executive Director, Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion, and Teaching Professor of Islam and Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame.

  13. Operation Education: Large reading grant to help train Catholic teachers at Notre Dame

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    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.

  14. ITALY24 NEWS

    What Whitmer’s second Taiwan visit in 6 months means for Michigan

    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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    Kyle Jaros

    Keough School of Global Affairs and Department of Political Science

  15. CEO of Feeding America named recipient of Notre Dame's 2024 Laetare Medal

    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.

  16. Israel’s Hezbollah problem could outlast its war in Gaza

    “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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    Asher Kaufman

    Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies