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Associated Press
March 03, 2026
“Amazon has generally configured its services so that the loss of a single data center would be relatively unimportant to its operations,” said Mike Chapple, an IT professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. Other data centers in the same zone can take over, and most of the time this happens seamlessly every day to balance workloads, he said. “That said, the loss of multiple data centers within an availability zone could cause serious issues, as things could reach a point where there simply isn’t enough remaining capacity to handle all the work.”
Marketplace
Audio
March 03, 2026
Global shipping likes to pass cargo through the most direct route to minimize costs and time, said Eugene Gholz, a political science professor at University of Notre Dame.
Bloomberg
March 02, 2026
“Trump is the first US president to say he does not ‘need’ international law and to act openly and brazenly in disregard of it,” said Mary Ellen O’Connell, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.
The New York Times
March 02, 2026
Drops among Hispanic, white and Black teenagers accounted for 37 percent of the national birthrate decline between 2007, when the rate started to go down, and 2019, according to calculations by Melissa Kearney, an economist at the University of Notre Dame, and her colleagues.
Researchers have pointed to several possible explanations. The decline coincided with the introduction of the smartphone, which rapidly became a tool for both social connection and isolation, even a substitute for sex, said Kasey Buckles, an economist at Notre Dame.
Vox
February 25, 2026
Laura Gamboa is an exception. A political scientist at the University of Notre Dame, she published a book in 2022 on strategies against backsliding used by opposition parties — contrasting Venezuela, which collapsed into dictatorship under Hugo Chávez, and Colombia, which survived a similar autocratic bid by President Álvaro Uribe.
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