ND in the News: March 2023
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Robotics & Automation News
Will a robot take my job? Notre Dame researcher says this view is overly pessimistic
March 31, 2023
With the impact of industrial robots on the US labor markets in the past two decades, and an ever-increasing presence of machine-driven technology (such as artificial intelligence and ChatGPT), many employees have feared that one day robots will take their jobs. Not necessarily so, according to research recently published by Yong Suk Lee, an assistant professor in the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs.
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Keough School of Global Affairs
The New York Times
DNA Confirms Oral History of Swahili People
March 29, 2023
Under Islamic law, exhumations are permitted if they serve a public interest, including that of determining ancestry, according to Ebrahim Moosa, who studies Islamic law and ethics at the University of Notre Dame.
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Kroc Institute for Peace Studies
NBC News
Vietnam soldier’s family reunited with dog tag after journey around the globe
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March 29, 2023
Fifty years ago today, the last American combat troops left Vietnam. Harry Smith shares the remarkable lengths former Senator Jim Webb and a group of Notre Dame students went to return a dog tag from the battlefield to the family of a Vietnam veteran.
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Political Science
PBS
The Movement and the "Madman"
Video Audio
March 28, 2023
David Cortright, Professor Emeritus from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, is featured in the documentary film "The Movement and the 'Madman'" as part of the PBS series "American Experience."
ND Experts
Keough School of Global Affairs
Foreign Policy
Turkey’s Government Uses Disaster for Profit
March 28, 2023
Opinion: Sehrazat G. Mart is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and department of sociology.
Commonweal
Islam’s Future in Kathmandu
March 27, 2023
The conference represented one element of the Madrasa Discourses initiative, itself a component of the Contending Modernities project based at the University of Notre Dame and generously funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Ebrahim Moosa, a practicing Muslim with an impressive résumé spanning East and West, ably directs the project with the help of the scholar of religion Josh Lupo.
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Kroc Institute for Peace Studies
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Commonweal
Whose War Is It?: Letter from Germany
March 27, 2023
By William Collins Donahue. Donahue is the Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities at the University of Notre Dame, where he serves as director of the Initiative for Global Europe in the Keough School of Global Affairs.
National Catholic Reporter
Catholic colleges cut humanities programs, citing student interest in other fields
March 24, 2023
At the University of Notre Dame, Sarah Mustillo, dean of the College of Arts and Letters, questioned the federal data on humanities graduates for the school.
Today Show
Notre Dame says name, image, likeness rule is too easy to abuse
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March 23, 2023
Less than two years after the NCAA changed the rules about college athletes using their name, image and likeness to make money, Notre Dame President Father John Jenkins and athletic director Jack Swarbrick say the new NIL system is damaging college athletics.
CNBC
This is the personality test you should take, says psychologist—it’s a ‘better predictor of behavior’
March 23, 2023
“They don’t get into the dirty underbelly of personality,” said David Watson, a professor of personality psychology at the University of Notre Dame.
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The New York Times
College Sports Are a Treasure. Don’t Turn Them Into the Minor Leagues.
March 23, 2023
By John I. Jenkins and Jack Swarbrick. Father Jenkins is the president of the University of Notre Dame, where Mr. Swarbrick is director of athletics.
The Wall Street Journal
Christian Colleges Can Be Good for Jews
March 23, 2023
Jews are already on Christian campuses, but in small numbers. Most aren’t religiously observant. Blake Ziegler is a senior at the University of Notre Dame and president of the Jewish Club. According to the school, the number of Jewish students has averaged around 30 over the past three years.
Our Sunday Visitor
Jewish parents challenge California ban on special education funds at religious schools
March 22, 2023
Nicole Stelle Garnett, a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, told OSV News that it is “pretty clear” that the California provision distinguishing between sectarian and nonsectarian private schools’ eligibility for the funding is unconstitutional.
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Notre Dame Law School
The Economist
A fight in Arizona over sacred land and a mine raises big issues
March 22, 2023
Stephanie Barclay, of the University of Notre Dame, who will represent the National Congress of American Indians in the Oak Flat case, says that the federal government has a history of showing “callousness, disregard and, I think, contempt” to Native American faith.
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Notre Dame Law School
Associated Press
Video on social media doesn’t show genetically modified mosquitoes
March 21, 2023
Nora Besansky, a biology professor at the University of Notre Dame who specializes in mosquitoes, notes mosquitoes only have one pair of wings while the insect in the video has two pairs.
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Department of Biological Sciences
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Our Sunday Visitor
Mercy sister who is lifelong advocate for developmentally disabled to receive Notre Dame's Laetare Medal
March 21, 2023
Mercy Sister Rosemary Connelly, former executive director of Misericordia and lifelong advocate for individuals with developmental disabilities, will receive the University of Notre Dame's 2023 Laetare Medal, the oldest and most prestigious honor given to American Catholics.