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ND in the News: 2021

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  1. "Since the 2010 census — we'll soon have the 2020 numbers — 94% of Latinos under the age of 18 were born in the United States," notes University of Notre Dame political science Professor Luis Fraga, who also directs the school's Institute for Latino 91Ƶ.

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    Luis Fraga

    Department of Political Science

  2. Carla Harris, a celebrated gospel singer and a leading U.S. financial executive, will receive the University of Notre Dame's 2021 Laetare Medal, one of the most prestigious prizes in the American Catholic Church.

  3. “His ministry was able to bridge gaps between whites and Latinos in a way that suburban white ministers could not, especially in the 1980s and ’90s,” said Darren Dochuk, a historian at the University of Notre Dame.

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    Darren Dochuk

    College of Arts and Letters

  4. Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American Politics, political scientists David E. CampbellԻGeoffrey C. Layman of the University of Notre Dame and John C. Green of the University of Akron argue that the US’s secular population is larger and more diverse than previously acknowledged — and that a big part of what’s driving secularity is actually religious people’s political behavior.

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    David Campbell

    Political Science

    Professor Layman has salt-and-pepper colored hair, mustache and beard, and wears a dark blue blazer and tie over a white shirt.

    Geoffrey Layman

    Department of Political Science

  5. Additional large-scale clinics to be held at Ivy Tech Community College in Sellersburg the University of Notre Dame are already fully booked, but appointment slots are still available for a fourth mass vaccination site at Calumet New Tech High 91Ƶ in Gary, scheduled for later this month.

  6. The term was coined after a 2011 study by researchers at the University of Notre Dame, who found that people tend to forget things after passing through a doorway because their brain refreshes since memories from the old room were less likely to be relevant in the new room. 

  7. Those drops aren't unexpected. Throughout America's pandemic year, poverty has fallen with each new stimulus package and increased unemployment benefits, according to research from economists at University of Chicago, University of Notre Dame, and Zhejiang University.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  8. Meanwhile, more than 8 million Americans -- including many children -- fell into poverty in the second half of last year, according to an analysis by University of Chicago economist Bruce Meyer, University of Notre Dame’s James Sullivan and Zhejiang University’s Jeehoon Han.

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    James Sullivan

    Jim Sullivan

    Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)

  9. According to a 2016 paper about the definitions of equity by Samuel Bray, a professor of law at Notre Dame, “There were also certain kinds of suits that were typically brought in equity [courts] because the chancellor had developed special doctrines for them — especially suits about trusts and mortgages.

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  10. Additional large-scale clinics to be held at Ivy Tech Community College in Sellersburg the University of Notre Dame are already fully booked, but appointment slots are still available for a fourth mass vaccination site at Calumet New Tech High 91Ƶ in Gary, scheduled for later this month.

  11. "Assuming that (1) Mr. Tsarnaev's adjusted gross income fell below $75,000 in 2019 or 2018, (2) he possessed a valid Social Security number, and (3) no one could claim him as a tax dependent, then he would have been eligible for the two previous checks issued under President Trump," said Patrick Thomas, a University of Notre Dame associate clinical professor of law and the director of the Notre Dame Tax Clinic.

  12. Other vaccination clinics are scheduled for later this month including at the University of Notre Dame, Ivy Tech Community College in Sellersburg and in Gary.

  13. The Catholic scholars — including Ryan T. Anderson, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center; Prof. Robert P. George of Princeton University; and Prof. O. Carter Snead of the University of Notre Dame — said in a statement that the cell line used for scientific research does not contain the remains of any human being.

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    Carter Snead

    Notre Dame Law 91Ƶ

  14. “The Bible’s sort of a young kid on the block in the ancient Middle East, by its own admission,” said Abraham Winitzer, Jordan H. Kapson, associate professor of Jewish studies at the University of Notre Dame.