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AOL
March 06, 2026
Mike Chapple, an IT professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, noted that while AWS is designed for seamless failovers, "the loss of multiple data centers within an availability zone could cause serious issues." He emphasized that cloud computing "still requires physical facilities on the ground, which are vulnerable to all sorts of disaster scenarios."
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The New York Times
March 06, 2026
“We’re five days into it, and that’s approaching the longest pauses that happened,” said Eugene Gholz, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and an expert on the Strait of Hormuz.
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The New York Times
March 06, 2026
Some analysts said they did not expect the conflict to lead to a lengthy pause in shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. No country has closed the strait since large scale oil production began in the Middle East, said Eugene Gholz, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and expert on the Strait of Hormuz.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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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Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs
February 24, 2026
Richard Sheehan is a professor of finance, emeritus, at the University of Notre Dame.
The Japan Times
February 23, 2026
“I would imagine that this is probably going to be a continuing thing, because of the looming danger of enormous cost overruns and other broader logistical challenges,” said Davin Raiha, associate teaching professor with the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Economics who specializes in the economics of sports.
Al Jazeera
February 20, 2026
A recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, led by researchers from the University of Notre Dame, provides evidence that intelligence is not a trait confined to a specific region, but rather the product of a comprehensive and dynamic architecture that encompasses the entire brain.
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The New York Times
February 18, 2026
Firefighting gear has “significantly more PFAS than a plain Gore-Tex jacket,” said Graham Peaslee, a physics professor at the University of Notre Dame who co-authored a on firefighter textiles and PFAS.
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Experimental Nuclear Physics
Reuters
February 17, 2026
“When you say that a candidate is religious, most voters then assume that they're Republican, that they're pretty conservative,” said David Campbell, a political science professor at the University of Notre Dame. “What you're seeing now is a small group of Democrats who are using religious language to speak about issues on the left.”
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The New York Times
February 17, 2026
Katie Jarvis, a historian of early and late modern France at the University of Notre Dame, did not exactly agree. “No, France never had these exact borders,” she wrote in an email. “If I had to pick one moment in time,” she wrote, the Wembanyama map might correspond to the Kingdom of France in 1461, when Louis XI took the throne.
The Guardian
February 17, 2026
By David Cortright, Professor Emeritus of the Practice at the Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频 in the Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.
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OSV News
February 16, 2026
Timothy O’Malley, who teaches at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, agreed. “Religious practice requires the body, and it’s only a kind of really trite spirituality that forgets that, and tries to think about it simply as a kind of intellectual phenomenon,” said O’Malley, a theology professor, academic director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy and associate director for research at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at Notre Dame.
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The Conversation
February 16, 2026
Derek T. Muller, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
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Chicago Tribune
February 15, 2026
Kathleen Sprows Cummings, professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, said saints tend to tap into a human need.
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WVPE
February 13, 2026
Kristine Chua, a biological anthropologist in the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Anthropology, co-lead on the The Microchimerism, Human Health & Evolution Project. The work was recently published in the journal Advanced Science. Chua discusses some of the findings.
Scientific American
February 12, 2026
“The team that conducted this work consists of experts at the top of the field, and they have done a very fine job with the data,” says Lauren Weiss, an astrophysicist at the University of Notre Dame, who was not involved in the study. “As for their conclusion that LHS 1903 e formed in a gas-depleted environment, I would have liked to see a more detailed experiment exploring the giant-impact scenario,” she adds.
The Washington Post
February 10, 2026
To many, it seemed entirely far-fetched: Oklahoma wanted to create a Catholic charter school, a public school that would infuse religion throughout the school day. A slew of experts dismissed the idea as an unconstitutional violation of the separation of church and state. Not Nicole Stelle Garnett.
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Chicago Tribune
February 09, 2026
British architect, designer and urban planner John Simpson is the winner of this year’s Driehaus Prize in Architecture, backed by the Chicago-based Driehaus Trust and given by the University of Notre Dame. “John Simpson has long maintained that traditional forms are environmentally sound and contribute to the sense of local identity,” said Stefanos Polyzoides, dean of Notre Dame’s 91视频 of Architecture, in part in a statement. Polyzoides led the jury that selected the winners.
National Catholic Register
February 09, 2026
Peter Moody, an expert in international relations in East Asia and professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, told the Register that Taiwan values its relationship with the Vatican more than the Holy See values its relationship with Taiwan.
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The Conversation
February 06, 2026
By Cara Ocobock, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, and Gabriel R. Burks, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame.
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Today Show
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February 05, 2026
Students at the University of Notre Dame built an entire chapel out of ice and snow to bring the community together in the freezing cold conditions. They even held a mass celebrated by one of the school’s chaplains!
Science
Audio
February 05, 2026
Next on the show, modeling the fall of fossil fuels during the decarbonization of energy systems, with civil engineer and environmental sociologist Emily Grubert and historian and engineer Joshua Lappen, both at the University of Notre Dame. The pair wrote a policy forum on predicting chokepoints or “minimum viable scales” in the decline of fossil fuel networks—in effect, when a system might get too small to maintain its function.
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Marketplace
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February 05, 2026
These are less-efficient means of generating power from a fuel that is not the cleanest at baseline, said Emily Grubert, associate professor of sustainable energy policy at the University of Notre Dame.
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National Catholic Reporter
February 04, 2026
An estimated 2,000-plus students and other members of the Notre Dame community in South Bend, Indiana, gathered the night of Feb. 2 in subfreezing temperatures to celebrate a candlelit Mass at the site of St. Olaf Chapel, a student-constructed fleeting house of worship made from snow, ice and faith on the North Quad.
The New Yorker
February 03, 2026
These thoughts and the current battle over immigration brought me to the work of the Reverend Dan Groody, a Catholic priest and a professor of theology at Notre Dame, who spent years working in Latin America.
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Science
February 03, 2026
Zombosomes appear to expand the growing roster of large extracellular vesicles (EVs) that biologists have identified, although what they do and whether some are distinct from one another remains unclear. “It’s a burgeoning area, but still very nascent,” says Crislyn D’Souza-Schorey, a biologist at the University of Notre Dame, adding that she “chuckled” at the name zombosomes.
