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Wired
September 18, 2026
If anything, collectively agreeing not to implement safety measures could expose the AI labs to allegations of “quality fixing,” says Roger Alford, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频 and the former second-in-command for the DOJ Antitrust Division. That’s when companies mutually agree not to improve their own products; Alford points to a European antitrust case in which car companies worked together to develop emissions-reducing technology but agreed to not compete on improvements beyond what the law required.
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Associated Press
September 18, 2026
Michael Withers, professor of management at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, said Buffett took a deliberate approach to Berkshire Hathaway’s succession plans and has carried out the transition step by step. “Buffett seems to have understood that succeeding him wasn’t just about finding another extraordinary leader,” he said. “It was about building a structure that could preserve what makes Berkshire different long after he has stepped away. The test moving forward will be whether Abel and Howard can honor that legacy while still giving Berkshire room to adapt to a market that looks very different from the one Buffett mastered.”
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Reuters
September 18, 2026
"This one is really about continuity," said Michael Withers, a management professor at the University of Notre Dame's 鈥媌usiness school. "The test moving forward will be whether Abel and Howard can honor [Warren Buffett's] legacy while still giving Berkshire room to adapt to a market that 鈥媗ooks very different from the one Buffett mastered."
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National Catholic Reporter
September 18, 2026
Megan Sullivan of the University of Notre Dame (professor of philosophy and founding director of the Notre Dame's Institute for Ethics and the Common Good) has offered to provide a menu of formation opportunities for bishops and for dioceses.
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Newsweek
September 17, 2026
Alexander Kustov, an associate professor of migration at the University of Notre Dame, told Newsweek: "Most of this movement may just be a random survey error. With 2,100 respondents, the margin on a net favorability number is closer to plus or minus 4 points than the 2 the poll reports, and for the difference between two months, it is closer to 6."
The Washington Post
September 17, 2026
In his 2020 book “What It Means to Be Human,” O. Carter Snead, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, explains that much of contemporary bioethics law has in mind a vision of a person who is competent, independent, strong-willed and intent on exercising his autonomy.
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The Wall Street Journal
September 16, 2026
Notre Dame announced last week that it will resume requiring undergraduate applicants to submit a standardized test score, a practice the university had suspended during the pandemic. It cited the same reasons as other selective colleges that have also reversed course.
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Associated Press
September 15, 2026
“The court didn’t have to explain that it was disinclined to side with the government on the merits, but it did that, and that is a sign for the future,” said Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor.
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The Atlantic
September 14, 2026
Podcast interview with host David Brooks. Philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan doesn’t just want to teach her students about virtue; she wants to make them better human beings.
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Law.com
September 14, 2026
"Don't forget much from that day," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh said Friday during a 9/11 memorial event at the University of Notre Dame. "Seared in my memory is the secret service agents saying, 'Run. Sprint. Ladies take off your heels and sprint.' And we were all kind of sprinting out the gate toward Lafeyette Park."
Fox News
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September 14, 2026
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh speaks during a panel on the 25th commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks at the O'Shaughnessy Memorial Lecture at the University of Notre Dame.
Courthouse News Service
September 14, 2026
Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined a panel at the University of Notre Dame on Friday to reflect on the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, calling for a focus on unity instead of division in the aftermath of the war on terror.
CNN
September 14, 2026
“One of the things that comes out of September 11 is this grief and anger and resolution, but also unity. Everyone in Yankee Stadium chanting ‘USA! USA!’” Kavanaugh told the University of Notre Dame.
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CNN
September 14, 2026
“There’s a suggestion on the election administration side that no one really thinks this is going to be implemented,” said Derek Muller, an elections law professor at Notre Dame. “And a lot of the litigation is just theatrical at this point.”
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C-SPAN
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September 14, 2026
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh reflected on the September 11, 2001, attacks and their lasting impact. He spoke at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
DW (Deutsche Welle) TV
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September 14, 2026
Judges at the United Nations' top court are weighing whether Nicaragua's case against Germany over support for Israel during the war in Gaza can proceed. Nicaragua says Germany breached its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention, while Germany argues the court lacks jurisdiction. What does international law say about a country's responsibility when it supplies arms to an ally? Law professor Mary Ellen O'Connell from the University of Notre Dame explains.
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The Boston Globe
September 14, 2026
(Joyelle) McSweeney, a Harvard University graduate, is cofounder and co-editor of Action Books, an international press for poetry and translation. She also serves as Chair of the English Department and the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.
Bloomberg
September 14, 2026
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh said he’s forgotten little 25 years later of his hectic dash from the White House as he and other Bush administration staffers were rushed from the building following the 9/11 attacks in New York. “It’s seared in my memory — don’t forget much from that day — seared in my memory the Secret Service agent saying run, sprint, ladies take off your heels and sprint,” Kavanaugh said Friday during an appearance at Notre Dame.
Marketplace
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September 11, 2026
Shippers might be able to adjust to a new normal, according to Eugene Gholz, who focuses on national security and economic policy at the University of Notre Dame.
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America
September 11, 2026
“It was the cross of San Damiano that was the entrance point into his vocation, his mission to rebuild the church, and he spent his entire life unfolding that mission,” said Sister Damien Marie Savino, a member of the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist and a visiting professor of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences at the University of Notre Dame.
OSV News
September 11, 2026
Support for democracy has begun a modest recovery across the Americas, according to the 2026 Pulse of Democracy report by the University of Notre Dame‘s Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs and Vanderbilt University’s Center for Global Democracy. However, researchers also expressed concern about the rise of authoritarianism. “The findings offer some encouraging signs, but they also underscore the work that remains,” Ann Mische, acting director of Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute for International 91视频 and an associate professor of sociology and peace studies, said in a statement.
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Newsweek
September 11, 2026
Meanwhile, Jeffrey Campbell, a professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame and a former senior economist and research adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, is more hawkish.
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Fortune
September 10, 2026
Other research on the question points in different directions, he noted. Economist David Autor and his coauthors found that manufacturing decline during the China Shock reduced marriage rates in the hardest-hit communities. Economists Melissa Kearney and Riley Wilson, studying localized fracking booms that raised men’s earnings, found increases in both marital and nonmarital births—but no corresponding increase in marriage rates.
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Devex | Subscription Only
September 10, 2026
The investment brings together the University of Chicago, the University of California, Berkeley, and AIM for Scale, alongside international agricultural research center CIMMYT and the nonprofits Precision Development and Digital Green. AIM for Scale, which stands for Agricultural Innovation Mechanism for Scale, is an initiative launched by the Gates Foundation and the United Arab Emirates at the 28th U.N. Climate Change Conference, and is now funded through the University of Notre Dame.
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Bloomberg
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September 10, 2026
Richard Garnett of Notre Dame University Law 91视频, who filed an amicus brief in support of the state with Georgtown Law’s Stephanie Hall Barclay, said it would be a mistake and an oversimplification to say it’s an easy case for the plaintiffs. He called their argument “a stretch.”
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The Telegraph
September 10, 2026
“We’re battling evolution. And right now, we’re losing,” said Prof Neil Lobo, a research professor in the Eck Institute for Global Health at the University of Notre Dame.
USA Today
September 09, 2026
Kavanaugh will be speaking about his experience for a panel discussion at the University of Notre Dame on Sept. 11 in honor of the 25th anniversary.
Vatican News
September 09, 2026
“Within Your Gates: The Forum for the Universal Vocation of Jerusalem” is born, a new interdisciplinary forum promoted by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, and developed in collaboration with the academic center of the University of Notre Dame. “Each of us felt that something in our souls had died. Cardinal Pizzaballa’s invitation was, first and foremost, to listen deeply and compassionately to others, without an attitude of moral superiority, but in order to learn from them,” explains Daniel Schwake, Director of Notre Dame Jerusalem and of the Advisory Committee of Within Your Gates.
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National Catholic Register
September 08, 2026
Tim O’Malley, a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame and academic director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, told the Register that in the U.S. bishops thought handshaking would be most consistent with our local customs.
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Americas Quarterly
September 08, 2026
This finding comes from the 2026 Pulse of Democracy, published this month by Vanderbilt University’s Center for Global Democracy with the Kellogg Institute for International 91视频 at the University of Notre Dame.