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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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. 

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.”

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.”

  17. Opinion | Solving homelessness requires more evidence and less politics

    August 29, 2023

    Bill Evans is the University of Notre Dame Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Economics and co-founder of the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO). David Phillips is a research professor of economics at LEO. Jim Sullivan is a professor of economics and LEO co-founder.

  18. The Disciplining Power of Disappointment: In a new book, Sara Marcus argues that American politics are defined by unfulfilled desire.

    August 11, 2023

    If optimism is the disposition of the victor, then what is the outlook of the victim or survivor of conquest and domination? For Sara Marcus, an assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, it is disappointment. 

  19. Reggaeton often has misogynistic lyrics. A Mexican city is issuing fines.

    August 04, 2023

    Jason Ruiz, an associate professor of American studies at the University of Notre Dame, drew parallels between the trajectory of reggaeton with that of hip-hop and rap, genres that were also decried as violent in their early stages but that have seen a transformation following the rise of female and queer artists within them.

  20. The Kakhovka Dam Collapse Is an Ecological Disaster

    August 04, 2023

    The country is the world’s fifth-largest exporter of wheat — meaning there will be serious knock-on effects for countries that rely on imports. Farmers in the area also produce cherries, plums, apples, tomatoes, eggplants, and other crops, says Susanne Wengle, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.