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Our Experts in the News: January 2024

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  1. Tired of hostile Washington, China courts Indiana and Minnesota

    January 30, 2024

    There’s been “a huge pullback” on the U.S. side, said Kyle Jaros, an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame working on a book on the topic. “China is reaching out and finding it hard to find partners.”

  2. Is the federal budget a ‘moral document’?

    January 30, 2024

    “Of course it is a moral document,” Joseph P. Kaboski, an economics professor and fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, told OSV News. “Any budget tells you something about what you prioritize.”

  3. University of Notre Dame announces initiative to study, combat poverty

    January 25, 2024

    The University of Notre Dame announced on Jan. 23 that it will be launching a new academic initiative focused on studying and combating poverty, led by economist Jim Sullivan.

  4. Yes, Copying From Wikipedia Is Plagiarism

    January 19, 2024

    “The answer is always the same: yes. You can use it, but you have to cite it because you didn’t write it,” said Susan Blum, a professor at the University of Notre Dame whose scholarship has focused on plagiarism and educational anthropology. 

  5. Ireland Turns on Joe Biden Over Israel

    January 18, 2024

    Michael Desch, a professor of international relations at the University of Notre Dame who specializes in international relations, told Newsweek: "Blood is generally thicker than water and President Biden has had a good relationship with the Emerald Isle over the years given his family ties to the Old Sod. But there are limits to how much Irish ancestry will make up for the gallons of innocent blood being shed in Gaza by Israel with the Biden administration's reluctant support."

    Meanwhile, Robert Schmuhl, professor emeritus of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame and adjunct professor of law and government at Dublin City University, said: "President Biden's Irish heritage is important to his identity, but its value in Ireland is in jeopardy for what appears to many to be a lack of concern for the Palestinian people caught up in the war in Gaza."

  6. Can AI Be Conscious?

    January 16, 2024

    John T. Behrens, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, said that you can think of consciousness as having at least two interrelated ideas: autonomous action and self-awareness.

  7. Trump wins Iowa caucuses as DeSantis edges out Haley for second

    January 16, 2024

    “More than anything, Donald Trump’s victory in Iowa demonstrates how much he and his political organization have learned since 2016,” Robert Schmuhl, professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, who critically observes the modern American presidency, told OSV News.

  8. Study Shows Faith, Spirituality Boost Mental Health, Especially During Isolation and Despair

    January 10, 2024

    “The data produced through this project is like the Webb telescope, only instead of distant stars, it has revealed the interior lives of many Americans — how they think and feel about their relationship to a higher power,” writes University of Notre Dame Professor David Campbell in the study’s introduction.

  9. How Your Body Adapts to Extreme Cold

    January 08, 2024

    If this is making you miserable, it’s because you, like most people, overwhelmingly prefer hot places. That group does not include Cara Ocobock, a biological anthropologist at University of Notre Dame who is one of the scientists trying to understand how the human body adjusts to extreme cold.

  10. Harvard’s Claudine Gay was ousted for ‘plagiarism’. How serious was it really?

    January 08, 2024

    “I don’t believe in churning everything through turnitin.com because that’s a mechanical way of doing things,” says Susan Blum, a professor of linguistic anthropology at Notre Dame, referencing a go-to anti-plagiarism tool.

  11. Places ravaged by opioids are giving Republicans the upper hand

    January 05, 2024

    To try to isolate the role of the epidemic on voting, Carolina Arteaga and Victoria Barone, respectively economists at the University of Toronto and the University of Notre Dame, started by looking at areas where opioids had been heavily prescribed when they first hit the market in the 1990s.

  12. Battling Artificial Intelligence in the classroom

    January 03, 2024

    Artificial Intelligence in the classroom has been a polarizing topic. But Notre Dame Professor John Behrens said, education is always changing to keep up with trends.