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Catholic News Service
January 31, 2021
Statistics oversimplify attitudes toward abortion and labels such as 鈥減ro-choice鈥� and 鈥減ro-life鈥� are not helpful, said Tricia Bruce, a sociologist of religion and an affiliate of the University of Notre Dame鈥檚 Center for the Study of Religion and Society.
Business Insider
January 30, 2021
Kasey Buckles, an associate professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame, told Insider to expect to see other longer-term effects in the next several years, adding that women often struggle to find "on-ramps" back into their careers after stepping out of the workforce.聽
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Economics
CBS News
Video
January 30, 2021
"It's pay for luck," said Benjamin Golez, associate professor of finance at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business.
Bloomberg
January 29, 2021
鈥淭his time, many feel that there is no home to go back to,鈥� said Victoria Hui, an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame specializing in Hong Kong politics.
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Political Science
National Catholic Reporter
January 29, 2021
Fr. Emmanuel Katongole from the University of Notre Dame told stories of people all across Africa wielding nonviolence as a fundamental spirituality and a power for social change.
MarketWatch
January 29, 2021
Ironically, a legal showdown between the tech titans could hurt them on the antitrust front, since both are under investigation for the very things they are accusing one another of, says Elizabeth Renieris, founding director of the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab at the University of Notre Dame.
America
January 29, 2021
Laurie Nathan, the director of the聽mediation program聽at the University of Notre Dame鈥檚聽Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频, describes the report of a massacre in Axum as credible, though unverified.
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Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频, Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs
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Bloomberg
Video
January 29, 2021
Victoria Hui, University of Notre Dame Associate Professor of Political Science spoke about U.S. policy to China and Hong Kong with Haidi Stroud-Watts and Shery Ahn on Bloomberg Daybreak:Australia.聽
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Political Science
The Wall Street Journal
January 28, 2021
Cindy Parseghian of the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Fund at the University of Notre Dame, who lost three children to NPC, said the community might step in. 鈥淲e will explore every single option out there. We want to pursue this,鈥� she said.
The New York Times
January 28, 2021
David Campbell, a political scientist at Notre Dame, further elaborates on Jones鈥檚 argument, writing in a June 2020 article, 鈥淭he Perils of Politicized Religion, that...
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Political Science
The Washington Post
January 27, 2021
Meanwhile, the Chinese government and its national champion companies are systematically expanding Chinese influence in Africa by building critical infrastructure, exporting surveillance technologies, buying influence in African media, bribing officials and supporting some of the more odious regimes on the continent, said Joshua Eisenman, associate professor of politics at the University of Notre Dame鈥檚 Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs.
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Bloomberg
January 27, 2021
An additional 8 million people fell into poverty during the second half of 2020, more than double the sharpest annual rise in poverty since the 1960s, according to a聽study聽by economists at the University of Chicago and the University of Notre Dame released on Monday.
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Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Ars Technica
January 27, 2021
It's not a new thing, either, according to new research published in Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (Kaitlin Wowak, University of Notre Dame).
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Mendoza College of Business
Reuters
January 27, 2021
A survey last week by professors at the University of Chicago and the University of Notre Dame showed poverty increased by 2.4 percentage points to 11.8% in the second half of 2020, boosting the ranks of the poor by 8.1 million people.
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Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
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Bloomberg
January 27, 2021
Marya Lieberman, a professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, agreed that safety concerns would likely be a deal killer.
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Chemistry and Biochemistry
NPR
January 27, 2021
"I think if the vaccine rolls out faster, you're going to be able to get N95s faster," as the risks diminish and fewer people need N95s, says聽Kaitlin Wowak, a supply chain expert and assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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Mendoza College of Business
USA Today
January 26, 2021
鈥淚 think the principle witness is going to be Trump himself,鈥� said Jimmy Gurule, a Notre Dame law professor and former federal prosecutor.
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Notre Dame Law 91视频
Fox News
January 26, 2021
The report, released by economists at the University of Chicago and University of Notre Dame, found that the nation's poverty rate increased by 2.4 percentage points between June and December, surging from 9.3% to 11.8%.
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Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)