ND in the News: September 2026
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Law.com
September 14, 2026
"Don't forget much from that day," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh said Friday during a 9/11 memorial event at the University of Notre Dame. "Seared in my memory is the secret service agents saying, 'Run. Sprint. Ladies take off your heels and sprint.' And we were all kind of sprinting out the gate toward Lafeyette Park."
C-SPAN
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September 14, 2026
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh reflected on the September 11, 2001, attacks and their lasting impact. He spoke at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
CNN
September 14, 2026
“There’s a suggestion on the election administration side that no one really thinks this is going to be implemented,” said Derek Muller, an elections law professor at Notre Dame. “And a lot of the litigation is just theatrical at this point.”
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OSV News
September 11, 2026
Support for democracy has begun a modest recovery across the Americas, according to the 2026 Pulse of Democracy report by the University of Notre Dame‘s Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs and Vanderbilt University’s Center for Global Democracy. However, researchers also expressed concern about the rise of authoritarianism. “The findings offer some encouraging signs, but they also underscore the work that remains,” Ann Mische, acting director of Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute for International 91视频 and an associate professor of sociology and peace studies, said in a statement.
Marketplace
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September 11, 2026
Shippers might be able to adjust to a new normal, according to Eugene Gholz, who focuses on national security and economic policy at the University of Notre Dame.
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America
September 11, 2026
“It was the cross of San Damiano that was the entrance point into his vocation, his mission to rebuild the church, and he spent his entire life unfolding that mission,” said Sister Damien Marie Savino, a member of the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist and a visiting professor of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences at the University of Notre Dame.
Newsweek
September 11, 2026
Meanwhile, Jeffrey Campbell, a professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame and a former senior economist and research adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, is more hawkish.
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Economics
Fortune
September 10, 2026
Other research on the question points in different directions, he noted. Economist David Autor and his coauthors found that manufacturing decline during the China Shock reduced marriage rates in the hardest-hit communities. Economists Melissa Kearney and Riley Wilson, studying localized fracking booms that raised men’s earnings, found increases in both marital and nonmarital births—but no corresponding increase in marriage rates.
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Devex | Subscription Only
September 10, 2026
The investment brings together the University of Chicago, the University of California, Berkeley, and AIM for Scale, alongside international agricultural research center CIMMYT and the nonprofits Precision Development and Digital Green. AIM for Scale, which stands for Agricultural Innovation Mechanism for Scale, is an initiative launched by the Gates Foundation and the United Arab Emirates at the 28th U.N. Climate Change Conference, and is now funded through the University of Notre Dame.
Bloomberg
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September 10, 2026
Richard Garnett of Notre Dame University Law 91视频, who filed an amicus brief in support of the state with Georgtown Law’s Stephanie Hall Barclay, said it would be a mistake and an oversimplification to say it’s an easy case for the plaintiffs. He called their argument “a stretch.”
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The Telegraph
September 10, 2026
“We’re battling evolution. And right now, we’re losing,” said Prof Neil Lobo, a research professor in the Eck Institute for Global Health at the University of Notre Dame.
USA Today
September 09, 2026
Kavanaugh will be speaking about his experience for a panel discussion at the University of Notre Dame on Sept. 11 in honor of the 25th anniversary.
Vatican News
September 09, 2026
“Within Your Gates: The Forum for the Universal Vocation of Jerusalem” is born, a new interdisciplinary forum promoted by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, and developed in collaboration with the academic center of the University of Notre Dame. “Each of us felt that something in our souls had died. Cardinal Pizzaballa’s invitation was, first and foremost, to listen deeply and compassionately to others, without an attitude of moral superiority, but in order to learn from them,” explains Daniel Schwake, Director of Notre Dame Jerusalem and of the Advisory Committee of Within Your Gates.
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Americas Quarterly
September 08, 2026
This finding comes from the 2026 Pulse of Democracy, published this month by Vanderbilt University’s Center for Global Democracy with the Kellogg Institute for International 91视频 at the University of Notre Dame.