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Our Experts in the News: 2023

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  1. The Rise and Fall of Prime-Rib Nation

    December 24, 2023

    We see on holidays and special occasions the times when the kind of longer traditions and deeper histories of how we relate to food come out in ritual,” said Joshua Specht, the author of “Red Meat Republic” and an associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame.

  2. You Deserve a Great Nap

    December 21, 2023

    If you’re lucky enough to have an office or access to a nap room, consider keeping a pillow, eye mask and earplugs at work, said Jessica Payne, a professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame.

  3. It’s not your imagination. Novels are getting weirder.

    December 16, 2023

    Kate Marshall, an English professor at the University of Notre Dame, explains why literature has taken a turn for the strange in her new book 'Novels by Aliens.’ 

     

  4. Cheating in sports: Michigan football the latest scandal. Why is playing by rules so hard?

    December 12, 2023

    “Cheating in the chariot races was written about in the Iliad,” said Clark Power, a professor of psychology and education at the University of Notre Dame who also directs a non-profit organization that promotes equity and character development in youth sports.

  5. Price of diesel fuel continues to fall

    December 11, 2023

    WSBT also spoke with Notre Dame Economics Professor Thomas Gresik who agrees diesel prices impact inflation due to high transportation demands. But, he says it’s not a major component.

  6. ‘Wherever we’ve looked, we see destruction.’ The Ukraine war’s impact on buried archaeological sites

    December 01, 2023

    Science spoke with co-authors Pavlo Shydlovskyi, an archaeologist at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, and University of Notre Dame archaeologist Ian Kuijt about their efforts to track the damage—and prevent more.

  7. War Destroying Ukraine's Cultural Heritage at Scale 'Not Seen Since WWII'

    December 01, 2023

    "As a group of international and Ukrainian archaeologists, we realized there was an urgent needed to visit these locations systematically and visit representative sites," Ian Kuijt, professor of anthropology with the University of Notre Dame who participated in the survey, told Newsweek. 

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  8. Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Then private schools raised tuition

    November 27, 2023

    Dan Hungerman, an economics professor at the University of Notre Dame who has studied the impact of vouchers on private school finances, noted that the Heritage report’s main finding lacked the common elements of rigorous academic research: statistical significance and standard error.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  9. Can you solve it? How cut-throat are you? The ruthless pursuit of power

    November 27, 2023

    Today’s puzzle concerns a group of five power-hungry schemers who are all desperate to become the top boss. Your task will be to work out how the person of lowest status can triumph above all the others. The puzzle is a new variant of what are often called “pirate-division” problems, and was written by Joel David Hamkins, who is currently the O’Hara Professor of Logic at the University of Notre Dame and was previously Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  10. Sometimes Called ‘Little Lent,’ Advent Zeros In On Preparation, Which Can Include Penitence

    November 24, 2023

    Timothy O’Malley, the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and the academic director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, emphasized that much of the church’s year has historically been penitential.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  11. Starbucks denies new employee benefits to unionized workers during bargaining

    November 16, 2023

    Daniel Graff, director of the Higgins Labor Program at the University of Notre Dame”s Center for Social Concerns, remarked, “Starbucks has become the poster child for the service sector employer — the labor-intensive sectors — that say, ‘We cannot have a unionized workforce; we cannot imagine any kind of reallocation of power that’s going to result in some reallocation of the surplus; some reallocation of the income to our workforce.'”

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  12. Protesters demonstrate against world leaders, Israel-Hamas war as APEC comes to San Francisco

    November 13, 2023

    Rory McVeigh, sociology professor and director of the Center for the Study of Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame, said politicians use protests to gauge public opinion and that media attention helps.

  13. Gas Prices Tumble in Time for Thanksgiving

    November 09, 2023

    "Gasoline prices have long exhibited a seasonal pattern in which prices rise in the first half of the year and fall in the second half," University of Notre Dame economics professor Thomas Gresik told Newsweek. "This pattern is due to the change from winter blend gas to summer blend gas."

  14. The Taylor Swift stock-market effect? We are convinced.

    November 06, 2023

    “The market does not respond to pop stars,” says Jeffrey Campbell, an economics professor at the University of Notre Dame.

  15. Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies hosts panel with Latino trailblazers

    November 02, 2023

    The University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies played host to an inspiring panel discussion featuring prominent Latino leaders from Hollywood.

  16. Hezbollah’s reaction to the Israel-Hamas war could finally answer whether the group cares more about Lebanon or being a proxy for Iran

    October 22, 2023

    Asher Kaufman is Professor of History and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame.

  17. The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong

    October 17, 2023

    Man the Hunter has dominated the study of human evolution for nearly half a century and pervaded popular culture. It is represented in museum dioramas and textbook figures, Saturday morning cartoons and feature films. But Cara Ocobock, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, explains why that's wrong.

  18. A Rural Michigan Town Is the Latest Battleground in the U.S.-China Fight

    October 17, 2023

    “There are really strong commercial logics driving this, and those commercial logics aren’t going away anytime soon,” said Kyle Jaros, a professor at the University of Notre Dame, who studies Chinese investment in the United States.

  19. Pope Francis Opens Debate on LGBTQ Inclusion, Women’s Ordination and Celibacy

    October 04, 2023

    If this synod fails again to open the way to women deacons, “many, many American Catholic women will be disappointed, because that’s such low-hanging fruit,” said Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, who isn’t taking part in this month’s assembly. 

  20. What does Kevin McCarthy being 'ousted' mean for the future?

    October 03, 2023

    Jeff Harden, American Political Science Professor at Notre Dame, says this momentous decision was not simply red versus blue. Matthew Hall, American Politics Professor at Notre Dame, said his jaw dropped watching this go down.

  21. Universities Are Teaching Competing Math Philosophies to Future Teachers. Why That Matters

    September 29, 2023

    But efficiency and reducing students’ cognitive load aren’t the only reasons that math facts are important, said Nicole McNeil, a professor of cognitive psychology who studies math learning at the University of Notre Dame.

  22. Writers’ Strike Over As Union Secures Landmark Deal With AI-Related Labor Protections

    September 28, 2023

    “It’s just the foundational idea that workers must be foregrounded in businesses’ estimation of thinking about their use of labor,” Daniel Graff, director of the Higgins Labor Program at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns, told OSV News. “Workers’ interests and workers’ inherent dignity is something that needs to be considered — and at the same time, the commitment to workers having a voice in the process.”

  23. Preparing Math Teachers: What’s in the Coursework?

    September 27, 2023

    It’s a figure that troubled Nicole McNeil, a professor cognitive psychology who studies math learning at the University of Notre Dame.

  24. How a government shutdown would impact Michiana

    September 26, 2023

    16 News Now spoke with economist Jeff Campbell from the University of Notre Dame who says, in dollar terms, there is a big difference between previous shutdowns and the upcoming one.

  25. Here’s how to actually make friends post-college

    September 20, 2023

    Darcia Narvaez understands this well. She’s a developmental psychologist who explores how culture and childhood experiences contribute to human flourishing.

  26. Economists expect Fed to defy investors with more interest rate rises

    September 17, 2023

    Christiane Baumeister, a professor at the University of Notre Dame, is among those to worry about energy prices after the decision by Saudi Arabia and Russia to cut supply. She expects prices to rise further, potentially bidding up expectations of future inflation as well as delaying the descent in core price growth if companies opt to pass on higher costs to consumers.

  27. Germany has reason to be concerned. "Catastrophe is not unthinkable"

    September 07, 2023

    Such considerations drown out voices suggesting that extending support for carmakers could be counterproductive in the long run, writes The Economist. He evokes the views of Ruediger Bachmann of the University of Notre Dame, who believes that German politicians should rely more on market forces to fill the economic space that may open up as the German automotive industry weakens.

  28. Adieu to a post-colonial bully?

    September 05, 2023

    French officials controlled every aspect of the administration and affairs of their colonies, and declared everything and everyone in these colonies to be French: “But more as in French property. In other words, as subjects of France rather than citizens. The idea behind the insistence of the rightness and dominance of French language and French culture was for Africans to aspire to be French, but of course they could never really be French because they were black and not actually from France,” Prof. Catherine E. Bolten of the University of Notre Dame, told African Arguments.

  29. Texas fracking billionaire brothers fuel rightwing media with millions of dollars

    September 05, 2023

    “Thanks to their incredible wealth and largesse, the country as well as the [Republican] party are now feeling the effects of their aggressive brand of religiously-charged political activism,” said Darren Dochuk, a history professor at the University of Notre Dame and author of Anointed with Oil.

  30. Americans Are Talking About Labor Issues, Unions More Now Than In Recent Past, Experts Say

    September 04, 2023

    “I definitely think this Labor Day, there’s more of a focus by the nation on the state of labor,” said Daniel Graff, director of the Higgins Labor Program at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns. “Coming out of the pandemic — and with the rise of labor organizing we’ve seen the last couple of years — it’s clear that Americans are talking about labor questions more than in the recent past.”