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ND in the News: December 2020

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  1. “It’s potentially a game-changer in American politics,” said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, head of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame.

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    Kathleen Sprows Cummings

    American 91Ƶ

  2. “We haven’t seen this level of IPO pricing variability in a long time, perhaps since 1999 and 2000,” said Notre Dame Law 91Ƶ associate professor Patrick Corrigan, who specializes in IPOs and venture capital.

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    Patrick Corrigan

    Notre Dame Law 91Ƶ

  3. “The FireEye breach is an extraordinarily significant attack because of the nature of the target,” said Mike Chapple, teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, in written remarks.

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    Michael Chapple

    Mendoza

  4. "As one of the world's go-to cybersecurity firms, FireEye has a ringside seat for some of the most sophisticated breaches carried out worldwide," said Mike Chapple, a former computer scientist at the National Security Agency who now teaches at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business.

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    Michael Chapple

    Mendoza

  5. Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.

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    Timothy O'Malley

    McGrath Institute for Church Life

  6. If not for the stimulus checks, the US poverty rate would have been 1.1 percentage points higher in June, according to research done by Meyer, the University of Chicago economist, along with economists at the University of Notre Dame and Zhejiang University.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  7. Denis McDonough, one of Obama’s former chiefs of staff who now teaches at the University of Notre Dame, attributes some of Klain’s skills as a coalition builder and low-key problem solver to the Indiana roots he’s proud of, and still nurtures, decades after leaving his home state.

  8. Not coincidentally, 2011 was when Tim Loughran and Bill McDonald, two finance professors at the University of Notre Dame, first published a more detailed, finance-specific dictionary that has become popular as a training tool for NLP algorithms. 

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  9. "It's important that we balance, moving forward together in a way that will enable this [lunar] economy as well as the science," said Clive Neal, an engineering professor at the University of Notre Dame.

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    Clive Neal

    Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences

  10. George Lopez is professor emeritus and a founding member with the Kroc Institute of International Peace 91Ƶ at the University of Notre Dame and is a nonresident fellow with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

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    George A. Lopez

    Kroc Institute for International Peace 91Ƶ; Keough 91Ƶ of Global Affairs

  11. “I’m kind of worried about how this has caused people to silo into their own kind of media ecosystems and echo chambers,” says Tim Weninger, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, who has studied the structural impact of social media algorithms and the corresponding proliferation of misinformation and “fake news.”

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    Tim Weninger

    Tim Weninger

    Computer Science and Engineering

  12. We also spoke with Rolf Halden, director of the Biodesign Center for Environmental Health Engineering at Arizona State University, and with University of Notre Dame nuclear physicist Graham Peaslee (whose lab tested period underwear sent in by a columnist for the Sierra Club magazine) about chemicals found in treated garments, including some period underwear.

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    Graham Peaslee

    Experimental Nuclear Physics

  13. That troubling prospect warrants the attention of the international human rights community, according to Maggie Shum, a research associate at the Keough 91Ƶ of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.

  14. Without action, "the short-term impact is going to be more economic deprivation," says James Sullivan, economics professor at the University of Notre Dame, whose research has found that roughly 7 million people have fallen into poverty since May, many of them African American, children and those without university degrees.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)