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  1. 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.

  2. 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.’ 

     

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. ‘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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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."

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  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. 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. 

  19. 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.

  20. 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.