ND in the News: May 2026
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The New York Times
May 15, 2026
During his career, Mr. Blakey moved between government service and teaching law, mostly at the University of Notre Dame, his alma mater.
Financial Times
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May 15, 2026
Soumaya Keynes speaks to Melissa Kearney, a professor at the University of Notre Dame and the director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, which recently put out a series on the topic: Demographic Headwinds: The Economic Consequences of Lower Birth Rates and Longer Lives. They discuss why the fertility rate won’t reverse course any time soon — and what happens when the rest of the baby boomers retire.
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The New York Times
May 15, 2026
“Why is this a charitable activity?” said Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, an expert on nonprofits at the University of Notre Dame’s law school. “This is not feeding the poor. Influencers may indeed need the security, but they should pay for it themselves.”
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Science Friday
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May 14, 2026
An upcoming resupply mission will carry tumor samples to the International Space Station for research. Experiments in microgravity have yielded shocking results: Some tumors triple in size in just 10 days—the kind of growth that could take 10 years on Earth. What does that mean for science, and for astronauts? Joining Ira to discuss this new frontier in cancer research are hematologist Catriona Jamieson and aerospace engineer Meenal Datta.
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Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
NBC News
May 14, 2026
In explaining how the court may feel it is acting consistent with the Purcell principle, Derek Muller, an election law expert at the University of Notre Dame Law 91视频, said it does not apply when a court is lifting an injunction, as the Supreme Court did this week in allowing Alabama to move forward with its preferred map, which had previously been blocked. While he acknowledged the court’s recent decisions have favored Republicans, giving fuel to critics, Muller noted that the court would face scrutiny whenever it acted.
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The New York Times
May 13, 2026
“What is going on here is the focus on subset viral moments that land media attention for political leaders,” said Madhav Joshi, a professor at the Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频 at the University of Notre Dame.
USA Today
May 13, 2026
“As soon as you start thinking of yourself as a machine, only not as good, then you’re just a commodity and have no other reason to live,” said John Cavadini, director of the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. “It’s a pathway to desolation.”
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Theology
CBS News
May 12, 2026
More than 450,000 people were killed over decades of conflict, most of them unarmed civilians, according to Josefina Echavarría Alvarez of the Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频. Around 50,000 people were also kidnapped throughout the conflict.
OSV News
May 07, 2026
“We still find that many individuals, when they themselves are experiencing a mental health crisis or mental illness — or when their loved ones are — that a priest or someone in the parish … would be the first person that they would reach out to,” Beth Hlabse, program director for the Fiat Program on Faith and Mental Health at the University of Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life, said.
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The New York Times
May 06, 2026
In the United States, Leo’s background makes him more relevant, according to Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a historian at the University of Notre Dame. Americans “are paying more attention because he’s one of our own,” she said.
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The Christian Science Monitor
May 06, 2026
“The U.S. is trying to get back to the situation that existed before we launched this escapade,” says Eugene Gholz, a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. “We’re not trying to gain. We’re trying to undo a loss.”
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Political Science
ABC News
May 05, 2026
“People always look for signs in state and local elections, of, is this a sign of something bigger? And so this is seen as a sign, because ordinarily, the Indiana primaries don't attract a lot of attention, but people are looking at this as a sign of as a test for the president's clout,” Joshua Kaplan, Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Notre Dame, told ABC News.
Reuters
May 04, 2026
"He began his time on the court often in dissent, and he stood his ground," said Haley Proctor, a University of Notre Dame law professor who previously served as a clerk for Thomas. "The justice's influence on the law has been profound," 鈥婸roctor said. "And that is a consequence, not only of his many years on the court, but also of his persistence."
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