ND in the News: August 2021
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The New York Times
August 30, 2021
Just weeks ahead of the deal’s five-year anniversary, more than half of its measures have not been applied or have barely begun, according to the Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame, an independent entity charged with oversight of the deal.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
August 30, 2021
Suzanne Shanahan, director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, will become executive director of the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame on October 1.
National Catholic Reporter
August 30, 2021
Not so many years ago, Phil Sakimoto, recently named director of the sustainability studies minor at the University of Notre Dame, was a familiar face and voice to people all around the country.
The New York Times
August 30, 2021
Of the world’s 25 nations most vulnerable to climate change, more than a dozen are affected by conflict or civil unrest, according to an index developed by the University of Notre Dame.
America
August 30, 2021
But Daniel Philpott, a professor at Notre Dame University, while describing the speech as an “emotional and solemn tribute to the American soldiers who died in Kabul,” painted the challenge that nevertheless will persist after the United States withdraws its troops...Scott Appleby, a professor and dean at the Keough 91Ƶ of Global Affairs at Notre Dame who has worked with military and intelligence agency officials for over 20 years, wrote, “One view that I have heard consistently across the years, whoever the president was at the time, is frustration with the lack of clarity about our mission in Afghanistan, beyond the immediate response to the attacks of 9/11—its concrete goals and its precise role within U.S. grand strategy globally.”
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Department of History, Keough 91Ƶ of Global Affairs
Political Science
The New York Times
August 26, 2021
The Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith attributes the trend partly to the growing alliance between the Republican Party and the Christian right, a decline of trust in institutions, growing skepticism of religion in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and a shift away from traditional family structures that centered on churchgoing.
CNN
August 25, 2021
"With the alarming rise of Delta variant covid cases companies face the tough decision of providing a safe workplace by using carrots and sticks to get employees to vaccinate or impose a vaccine mandate at the risk of alienating and possibly losing some employees," said Joe Holt, professor of business ethics at Notre Dame
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Mendoza College of Business
Inside Higher Ed
August 25, 2021
University of Notre Dame has started an M.S. in global health.
The Hill
August 24, 2021
Mahan Mirza is executive director of the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion at Notre Dame's Keough 91Ƶ of Global Affairs.
Our Sunday Visitor
August 23, 2021
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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McGrath Institute for Church Life
The New York Times
August 22, 2021
Alex Perkins, a professor of biological sciences at Notre Dame, praised the paper overall as “incredibly impressive” but said the mortality analysis was not “particularly convincing or conclusive.”
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Department of Biological Sciences
Irish Independent
August 21, 2021
Robert Schmuhl is professor emeritus of American 91Ƶ at the University of Notre Dame and adjunct professor in the 91Ƶ of Law and Government at DCU.
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American 91Ƶ
Our Sunday Visitor
August 20, 2021
John Cavadini, a theology professor and director of the McGrath Institute for Church Life at Notre Dame University, said that Mary is ever-present on his school’s campus as well, from the statue on top of the trademark golden dome to the Marian transept windows in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.
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Theology