ND in the News: July 2025
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Forbes
July 31, 2025
"Increased brand support generated through returnless returns can sometimes be greater than the support generated when a consumer appears to be happy with a product and does not initiate a return," notes researcher Christopher Bechler. "Drawing from our theory that offering returnless product returns boosts brand support because they increase brand warmth, we find that returnless policies implemented on a case-by-case basis are actually more effective for a couple of reasons," John Costello said. "The consumer feels they are getting special treatment."
The Wall Street Journal
July 30, 2025
Some people who lowered their giving after 2017 are likely to respond by increasing giving now, said Daniel Hungerman, an economist at the University of Notre Dame who co-wrote a paper estimating that the 2017 changes reduced giving by $20 billion annually, or about 4%.
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Economics
The Conversation
July 30, 2025
By Michel Hockx, Director of the Liu Institute for Asia & Asian 91视频 in the Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame.
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East Asian Languages and Cultures
The New York Times
July 29, 2025
Richard W. Garnett, a law professor at Notre Dame who specializes in law and religion, said that the policy would serve as a reminder of a 2023 Supreme Court decision in favor of a postal carrier who rejected working on Sunday to deliver Amazon packages, which broadened the understanding of how workplaces must adapt to religious requests made by employees.
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Associated Press
July 29, 2025
Professor Darren Dochuk, a Canadian who teaches history at University of Notre Dame in Indiana, says the “disestablishment” of religion in the U.S. “made religious life all the more dynamic.”
“This is a country in which free faith communities have been allowed to compete in the marketplace for their share,” he said.
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College of Arts and Letters
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The Conversation
July 28, 2025
John Costello, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Notre Dame
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Marketing
OSV News
July 28, 2025
Erin Corcoran, an associate teaching professor and executive director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频 at the University of Notre Dame, told OSV News, “One of the things that I think people may or may not really understand is that so much of the labor that’s done in the United States, particularly labor that is seasonal, is done by immigrants, both documented and undocumented immigrants.”
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Newsweek
July 24, 2025
But authors Melissa Schettini Kearney, an economist from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, and Levine argue that decline in fertility is "less a reflection of specific economic costs or policies, but rather, a widespread re-prioritization of the role of parenthood in people's adult lives."
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Department of Economics
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The Wall Street Journal
July 24, 2025
The researchers only studied returnless returns for relatively low-cost items. But within that constraint, the positive effects were “robust” for a range of products in the study at different price points, from a ballpoint pen to a sweater, says John Costello, an associate professor of marketing at the University of Notre Dame and one of the paper’s co-authors.
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Marketing
Chicago Tribune
July 23, 2025
By Robert Schmuhl, professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Notre Dame and author of “Mr. Churchill in the White House: The Untold Story of a Prime Minister and Two Presidents.”
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American 91视频
CNN
July 22, 2025
“Whether we wear feminine hygiene products or not, we will all be exposed,” said senior study author Graham Peaslee, a professor of physics, chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
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Experimental Nuclear Physics
Catholic Faith Network Live
Video
July 22, 2025
Our next guest is not your typical college sophomore. Austin Baron is a student at the University of Notre Dame and a two-time competitor on American Ninja Warrior. But more than that, he's a young man of deep Catholic faith who's using his talents and national platform to fight hunger.
The Hill
July 22, 2025
In addition, a 2020 Sierra Magazine article — which included the participation of Graham Peaslee, senior author of the current study — identified “intentional fluorine use” in one type of period underwear, which led to a lawsuit and $5 million settlement with the brand.
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Experimental Nuclear Physics
The Chronicle of Higher Education
July 21, 2025
Kristi Rudenga is director of the Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Notre Dame, where she also teaches courses on both neuroscience and college pedagogy.
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Newsweek
July 21, 2025
The author of the study, Graham Peaslee, a professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, told Newsweek that "we found that it was almost entirely PFHxA leaching out of the wristbands."
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Experimental Nuclear Physics
