ND in the News: September 2025
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Bloomberg
September 12, 2025
US Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett said she hopes an opinion leak similar to the one prior to the 2022 decision ending abortion rights wouldn’t happen now, especially since the court has tightened its security practices. Appearing at Notre Dame on Friday to promote her memoir, Barrett said the leak represented a “tearing down of the institution” and underscored the need to carefully guard its standing.
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Bloomberg
September 12, 2025
US Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett said political violence is the “most grotesque” symptom of tense discourse in America today, and encouraged more collegiality and civility following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Responding to a question Friday at the University of Notre Dame about political violence and the campus slaying of Kirk in Utah, Barrett lamented the way she said people increasingly handle differences, especially online.
Scientific American
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September 10, 2025
Here to explain how a tick bite can completely change your dietary requirements and what you can do to protect yourself is Lee Haines, an associate research professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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Biological Sciences
OSV News
September 10, 2025
Robert Schmuhl, professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Notre Dame, who critically observes the modern American presidency, told OSV News, “Much of Donald Trump’s base of political support has a strong element of Christian nationalism.” “‘America Prays’ will appeal to that segment of the society,” he said. But Schmuhl also noted the effort “comes at a time when there are questions about the president’s previous conduct that challenge this call to religious devotion.”
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Bloomberg
September 10, 2025
“I see this as a way of appearing friendly to a group of people the administration probably would like to have a relationship with,” said Jeffrey Harden, a political science professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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Political Science and Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics
Newsweek
September 09, 2025
"When people first see recall trends, it often appears very concerning," said Kaitlin Wowak, an associate professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. "However, companies and the FDA do a really good job to ensure products are safe for consumers," she told Newsweek, referring to the Food and Drug Administration.
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Mendoza College of Business
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Bloomberg
September 08, 2025
America, however, is a country obsessed with newness, unlike the UK or continental Europe, where a change to a dominant household product would risk sparking revolution. “It’s a part of American culture, this celebration of novelty, progress and reinvention,” says Frank Germann, professor of marketing at the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.
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CBS News
Video
September 08, 2025
Amy Coney Barrett had been teaching full-time for nearly two decades, at Notre Dame's campus in South Bend, Indiana, until she was selected by President Donald Trump, in 2020, to serve on the Supreme Court. Now, she's traded the classroom for the courtroom, although she continues to teach a weeklong seminar on Constitutional Law.
The Atlantic
September 06, 2025
Kathleen Sprows Cummings, an American studies and history professor at Notre Dame and the author of A Saint of Our Own, told me, “My students are fascinated by him.” She continued, “They were talking about, like, ‘He’s wearing Nike sneakers.’ They just thought this was just the greatest thing.”
Timothy P. O’Malley, a theologian at the University of Notre Dame, said in a 2024 lecture, “Carlo was weird.” And recognizing that, O’Malley suggested, is the key to “unlocking his holiness.”
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McGrath Institute for Church Life
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The New York Times
September 05, 2025
Canonizations often respond to a need in the “larger culture” of the time, either those of the institutional church, or the needs of the faithful, said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a history professor at the University of Notre Dame and expert on saints. “With Carlo, certainly there’s the millennial angle,” she said. But, she added, at a time when society and the church are “very worried about the corrosive impact of technology,” from the internet to artificial intelligence, “he’s an example of a person who took the latest technology and then used it as a tool of evangelization. And that’s very appealing.”
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Associated Press
September 05, 2025
Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a history professor at the University of Notre Dame, said Acutis’ enormous popularity was clearly the result of a concerted church campaign, pushed strongly by his grief-stricken mother. But she said that is nothing new, and that in the 2,000-year history of the church, saints have very often been pushed ahead to respond to a particular need at a particular time.
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Chicago Tribune
September 05, 2025
The vestments were hand-delivered to the pope by the Rev. Daniel Groody, vice president and associate provost for undergraduate education at the University of Notre Dame, who attended the Mass. Groody said Notre Dame plans to launch a pilot class in integral ecology for its students at the Borgo Laudato Si’ in March, with the hopes of expanding the course to other universities in the future.
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The Conversation
September 05, 2025
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Bloomberg
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September 04, 2025
Jimmy Gurule, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频, discusses a federal appeals court finding that Trump's tariffs are illegal. June Grasso hosts.
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Reuters
September 03, 2025
Mary Ellen O’Connell, an expert on international law and the use of force with the University of Notre Dame, said Tuesday's operation "violated fundamental principles of international law. The alleged fact that the attack was on the high seas is irrelevant. What is relevant is that the U.S. had no right to intentionally kill these suspects," she said.ND Experts
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The Washington Post
September 03, 2025
Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor of law at Notre Dame, said intentionally killing suspects outside of armed conflict violated “fundamental principles of international law.”
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The Conversation
September 03, 2025
By Paul Winters, Professor of Sustainable Development, University of Notre Dame.
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Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs