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OSV News
January 13, 2026
"In those 12 months when they were receiving cash from the program, people were less likely to be food insecure," Patrick Turner, an assistant professor of economics at Notre Dame, and a LEO researcher, told OSV News.
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OSV News
January 13, 2026
So who is discussing guardrails and fail-safes to keep humans in control? Who is having the conversations concerning how AI will impact people, and just what an should look like for humanity? One answer: The University of Notre Dame, which recently received from the Lilly Endowment a $50.8 million grant — the largest given by a private foundation in the school’s history — to support the DELTA Network, a faith-based approach to AI ethics launched in September 2025.
Meghan Sullivan, founding director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Ethics and the Common Good and DELTA, said that the grant comes at a key time in the development of AI.
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Department of Philosophy
The Boston Globe
January 12, 2026
Roy Scranton is an essayist, novelist, literary critic, climate philosopher, and author, most recently, of “Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress.” He teaches at the University of Notre Dame, where he directs the Environmental Humanities Initiative.
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Department of English
The Conversation
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January 08, 2026
Mary Ellen O'Connell, professor of law and international peace studies, University of Notre Dame
The New York Times
January 07, 2026
But William N. Evans, an economist at Notre Dame, notes an offsetting rise in the number of disabled veterans, who face the highest risk of homelessness. Analyzing the effects of HUD-VASH on hundreds of localities, he and three co-authors found that “veterans’ homelessness would have risen substantially” without the expanded aid.
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Economics
EWTN
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January 07, 2026
Mary Ellen O'Connell, international law professor, University of Notre Dame
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The New York Times
January 07, 2026
The outreach effort may also be a way for the authorities to monitor residents in case they begin organizing opposition to the government and its handling of the fire, said Victoria Hui, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame who studies Hong Kong. “It seems that they are trying to kill two birds with one stone,” Ms. Hui said.
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Political Science
USA Today
January 06, 2026
Maduro’s lawyers are expected to challenge the court’s jurisdiction over his case by arguing the military attack on Venezuela violated international law, according to Jimmy Gurule虂, a former prosecutor who is now a law professor at Notre Dame.
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Bloomberg
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January 06, 2026
Former federal prosecutor Jimmy Gurule, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频, and Jessica Peake, Director of the International & Comparative Law Program at UCLA Law 91视频, discuss the federal charges against ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
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Forbes
January 05, 2026
By Joe Holt, Contributor. I cover environmental, social, and governance issues.
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Mendoza College of Business
Yahoo
January 05, 2026
Similarly, Mary Ellen O'Connell, a professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频 in the US state of Indiana, spoke of a kidnapping. "The United Nations Charter makes it very clear that there are very few times when a country has the right to carry out military force on the territory of another country," O'Connell told NBC. "And it never has the right to do that in order to bring an individual out to stand trial before their courts."
Financial Times
January 05, 2026
Mary Ellen O'Connell, law professor at the University of Notre-Dame, who noted formal extradition requests are required to remove criminal...
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