- Will a robot take my job? Notre Dame researcher says this view is overly pessimisticResearch recently published by Yong Suk Lee, an assistant professor in the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, found that industrial robots, particularly those used within the automotive industry, complemented human workers rather than replaced them — some even working collaboratively, side-by-side.
- Heather Reynolds to testify before Ways and Means Subcommittee on Work and WelfareHeather Reynolds, the Michael L. Smith Managing Director of the University of Notre Dame’s Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO), will testify before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Work and Welfare on Wednesday (March 29) at the hearing “Welfare is Broken: Restoring Work Requirements to Lift Americans Out of Poverty."
- The organization of sex trafficking: Study reveals entrepreneurial cycle of human exploitationA new study from Dean Shepherd, the Ray and Milann Siegfried Professor of Entrepreneurship in the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, examines how human traffickers systematically target girls and women from impoverished villages in India and take them to big cities like Mumbai, where they transform objections into compliance.
- Africana studies professor Zach Sell wins Paul E. Lovejoy PrizeZach Sell’s book, “Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital,” has won the 2022 Paul E. Lovejoy Prize from the Journal of Global Slavery for its excellence and originality in a major work related to global slavery. The panel of judges unanimously awarded the prize to the assistant professor in Notre Dame’s Department of Africana Studies, describing the book as meticulously researched and beautifully written.
- ‘You are not alone’: Q&A with Jessica Payne, expert on sleep, stress and memoryWomen often talk about the struggles they face feeling pinched between family and work obligations. As a result, many have trouble getting enough quality sleep, managing stress and maintaining a healthy work-life balance. These issues are very near and dear to the heart of Notre Dame’s Jessica Payne, professor of psychology and director of the Sleep, Stress and Memory (SAM) Lab, whose research focuses on how sleep and stress influence psychological function, well-being and human memory.
- The invasion of Iraq: Perspectives on war 20 years laterUniversity of Notre Dame experts look back on this 20-year anniversary and discuss whether those objectives were adequately met, and the aftermaths of war and peace on the Iraqi people and on the U.S.
- As banks grapple with bond losses, new research suggests they will comply with accounting rules but break classic investing rulesAs banks such as the recently collapsed SVB Financial Group grapple with bond losses, new research from the University of Notre Dame suggests they will try to limit the effect on earnings and regulatory capital by following accounting rules to the letter.
- Dionne Irving Bremyer named finalist for PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionDionne Irving Bremyer, an associate professor of English at Notre Dame, has been named a finalist for the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the country’s most prestigious peer-juried prize for novels and short stories. The honor is for Irving Bremyer’s short story collection “The Islands,” which follows the lives of Jamaican women — immigrants or the descendants of immigrants — who have relocated all over the world to escape the ghosts of colonialism.
- Monisha Ghosh to testify before Congressional Subcommittee on Communications and TechnologyUniversity of Notre Dame Professor of Electrical Engineering Monisha Ghosh will testify at 9 a.m. Friday (March 10) during a Congressional Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing on “Defending America’s Wireless Leadership.”
- Upward trend in ‘deaths of despair’ linked to drop in religious participation, economist findsOver the past 20 years, the death rate from drug poisonings in the U.S. has tripled and suicide and alcoholic liver disease death rates have increased by 30 percent — particularly among middle-aged white Americans. Daniel Hungerman, professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame, and his co-authors studied the connection between a sharp downturn of religious participation in the late 1980s and the swift rise in these "deaths of despair" among white Americans ages 45 to 54 in the early 1990s.
- In memoriam: Barth Pollak, professor emeritus of mathematicsBarth Pollak, professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Notre Dame, died Feb. 17 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was 94.
- Novelist, English professor Dionne Irving Bremyer on empathy, creative writing and climate change’s impact on cultureReading stories about people who are like us, and not like us, develops an appreciation of what it means to be human, said Notre Dame faculty member Dionne Irving Bremyer, who authored "The Islands," one of 10 books longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
- Religious Liberty Clinic supports Catholic dioceses’ efforts to operate first faith-based charter school in USNotre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic has assisted efforts to secure authorization to operate a Catholic charter school in Oklahoma despite provisions of Oklahoma law that prohibit charter schools from being affiliated with religious organizations and that require the schools to be “nonsectarian.”
- Directors who disagree politically with an incoming CEO are more likely to leave, study showsA new study from the University of Notre Dame shows that the political ideology of an incoming, newly hired CEO influences whether directors on the board of a company choose to continue or leave their positions.
- Cybersecurity expert offers seven tips to prevent identity theft during tax seasonEach year during tax season, identity thieves take advantage of the flood of tax returns being filed to steal sensitive information and commit fraud. The threat of identity theft is real and can have serious consequences, according to cybersecurity expert Mike Chapple, teaching professor of information technology, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.
- Tax return preparation help available for local low-income taxpayersThe University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College will provide free tax return preparation services to low-income families again this year through the Vivian Harrington Gray Tax Assistance Program (TAP).
- What short selling can reveal about a stock’s real valueNew research from finance and economics professor Paul Schultz reveals how firms benefit by exploiting share mispricing.
- Voter ID laws mobilize voters in both parties, rather than sway election resultsNotre Dame researchers found that voter ID requirements motivated supporters of both parties equally to comply and participate, but had little overall effect on the actual outcomes of the elections.
- Notre Dame experts reflect on first anniversary of war in UkraineUniversity of Notre Dame experts take a retrospective view on this one-year mark of the Russian invasion and provide insight into the war and its impact on Ukraine, the U.S. and the world.
- Researchers in chemistry, engineering, physics and biological sciences honored by AAASFive faculty members at the University of Notre Dame have been elected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as lifetime fellows. The fellows include Patricia A. Champion, Jon P. Camden, Yih-Fang Huang, Ahsan Kareem and Rebecca Surman. All are being recognized for scientifically and socially distinguished achievements in their respective fields of study.
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