ND in the News: August 2025
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The New York Times
August 18, 2025
“Broadly speaking, we are in a historical, global pushback against the liberal peace that prevailed for 10 to 15 years,” said Laurie Nathan, who has been a U.N. mediation adviser and is a professor at Notre Dame.
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The Wall Street Journal
August 18, 2025
“The president doesn’t have any unilateral authority over election devices, and the states principally control presidential elections,” said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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The Conversation
August 18, 2025
By Clive Neal, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame.
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Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
OSV News
August 15, 2025
“One of the challenges is that because the number of green cards that are issued every year is not representative of the number of people that are eligible, you’ve got huge backlogs,” 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.
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C-SPAN
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August 14, 2025
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Obama administration Council of Economic Advisers chair Jason Furman talked about what policymakers and business leaders should do to strengthen U.S. economic competitiveness and national interests. "I do want to acknowledge that I couldn't help but follow Speaker Ryan. I'm now at the University of Notre Dame," said Melissa Kearney, Aspen Economic Strategy Group director and economics professor at the University of Notre Dame (and panel moderator).
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Department of Economics
Today Show
August 12, 2025
The original creator of the video has not confirmed whether the video is AI or released details on how the video was made, and TODAY.com has reached out for comment but has not heard back yet. But Karla Badillo-Urquiola, a professor of computer science and engineering at University of Notre Dame, points to "clues" that support the video is AI-generated.
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Computer Science and Engineering
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The New York Times
August 11, 2025
The Rucho decision was part of a larger trend, said Derek T. Muller, a law professor at Notre Dame. “These developments reflect a federal judiciary increasingly unwilling to engage in judicial review of the political process,” he said. “And political actors in response are flexing the new power they have.”
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Chicago Tribune
August 11, 2025
Thomas A. Stapleford is an associate professor in the Program of Liberal 91视频 at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of “The Cost of Living in America: A Political History of Economic Statistics, 1880–2000” and is completing a book on “The Ethics of Official Facts.”
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Popular Science
August 11, 2025
“This project proved how important it is to think outside the box,” paper senior author and Honorary Research Fellow at LSTM Lee Haines said in a statement.
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Biological Sciences
Newsweek
August 11, 2025
Family economist Kasey Buckles also spoke about the practical way religion impacts fertility. "If young people are less likely to be a part of faith communities for whatever reason, then they may also find it too costly to have children without that support—especially if other institutions like neighborhoods or public education are also weak," said Buckles, a professor of economics and gender studies at Indiana's University of Notre Dame.
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Economics
The Washington Post
August 08, 2025
Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, said Democrats are likely to argue that they are in fact representing their constituents by doing everything in their power to deny Republicans the ability to redraw the state’s congressional map.
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The Conversation
August 08, 2025
The Conversation U.S. asked Tom Stapleford, a professor who has written a book on the political history of the U.S. consumer price index, to explain why this move could undermine trust in the indicators the government releases and why that could damage the economy.
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phys.org
August 07, 2025
A new open-access database called CampaignView, created by researchers at the University of Notre Dame, offers researchers, journalists and educators a powerful tool to understand congressional elections. Developed by Rachel Porter, the Notre Dame du Lac Assistant Professor in Notre Dame's Department of Political Science, the database project began in 2017 and has captured tens of thousands of campaign platform points and biographical narratives from congressional campaign websites over the past eight years.