The New York Times
February 18, 2026
Firefighting gear has “significantly more PFAS than a plain Gore-Tex jacket,” said Graham Peaslee, a physics professor at the University of Notre Dame who co-authored a on firefighter textiles and PFAS.
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Experimental Nuclear Physics
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The New York Times
February 17, 2026
Katie Jarvis, a historian of early and late modern France at the University of Notre Dame, did not exactly agree. “No, France never had these exact borders,” she wrote in an email. “If I had to pick one moment in time,” she wrote, the Wembanyama map might correspond to the Kingdom of France in 1461, when Louis XI took the throne.
The Guardian
February 17, 2026
By David Cortright, Professor Emeritus of the Practice at the Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频 in the Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.
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Reuters
February 17, 2026
“When you say that a candidate is religious, most voters then assume that they're Republican, that they're pretty conservative,” said David Campbell, a political science professor at the University of Notre Dame. “What you're seeing now is a small group of Democrats who are using religious language to speak about issues on the left.”
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The Conversation
February 16, 2026
Derek T. Muller, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
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OSV News
February 16, 2026
Timothy O’Malley, who teaches at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, agreed. “Religious practice requires the body, and it’s only a kind of really trite spirituality that forgets that, and tries to think about it simply as a kind of intellectual phenomenon,” said O’Malley, a theology professor, academic director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy and associate director for research at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at Notre Dame.
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Chicago Tribune
February 15, 2026
Kathleen Sprows Cummings, professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, said saints tend to tap into a human need.
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WVPE
February 13, 2026
Kristine Chua, a biological anthropologist in the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Anthropology, co-lead on the The Microchimerism, Human Health & Evolution Project. The work was recently published in the journal Advanced Science. Chua discusses some of the findings.
Scientific American
February 12, 2026
“The team that conducted this work consists of experts at the top of the field, and they have done a very fine job with the data,” says Lauren Weiss, an astrophysicist at the University of Notre Dame, who was not involved in the study. “As for their conclusion that LHS 1903 e formed in a gas-depleted environment, I would have liked to see a more detailed experiment exploring the giant-impact scenario,” she adds.
The Washington Post
February 10, 2026
To many, it seemed entirely far-fetched: Oklahoma wanted to create a Catholic charter school, a public school that would infuse religion throughout the school day. A slew of experts dismissed the idea as an unconstitutional violation of the separation of church and state. Not Nicole Stelle Garnett.
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National Catholic Register
February 09, 2026
Peter Moody, an expert in international relations in East Asia and professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, told the Register that Taiwan values its relationship with the Vatican more than the Holy See values its relationship with Taiwan.
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Chicago Tribune
February 09, 2026
British architect, designer and urban planner John Simpson is the winner of this year’s Driehaus Prize in Architecture, backed by the Chicago-based Driehaus Trust and given by the University of Notre Dame. “John Simpson has long maintained that traditional forms are environmentally sound and contribute to the sense of local identity,” said Stefanos Polyzoides, dean of Notre Dame’s 91视频 of Architecture, in part in a statement. Polyzoides led the jury that selected the winners.
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The Conversation
February 06, 2026
By Cara Ocobock, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, and Gabriel R. Burks, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame.
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Audio
February 05, 2026
Next on the show, modeling the fall of fossil fuels during the decarbonization of energy systems, with civil engineer and environmental sociologist Emily Grubert and historian and engineer Joshua Lappen, both at the University of Notre Dame. The pair wrote a policy forum on predicting chokepoints or “minimum viable scales” in the decline of fossil fuel networks—in effect, when a system might get too small to maintain its function.
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Today Show
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February 05, 2026
Students at the University of Notre Dame built an entire chapel out of ice and snow to bring the community together in the freezing cold conditions. They even held a mass celebrated by one of the school’s chaplains!
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February 05, 2026
These are less-efficient means of generating power from a fuel that is not the cleanest at baseline, said Emily Grubert, associate professor of sustainable energy policy at the University of Notre Dame.
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National Catholic Reporter
February 04, 2026
An estimated 2,000-plus students and other members of the Notre Dame community in South Bend, Indiana, gathered the night of Feb. 2 in subfreezing temperatures to celebrate a candlelit Mass at the site of St. Olaf Chapel, a student-constructed fleeting house of worship made from snow, ice and faith on the North Quad.