Our Experts in the News
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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.
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Associated Press
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.
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The Guardian
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.
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Wired
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.
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The Economist
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.
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WSBT TV
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.
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The New York Times
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.
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The New York Times
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.
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The Washington Post
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.’
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USA Today
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.
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WSBT TV
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.
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Science
‘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.
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Newsweek
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.
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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.
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The Guardian
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.
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OSV News
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.
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Our Sunday Visitor
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.
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Associated Press
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.
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Newsweek
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."
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MarketWatch
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.