Media Mentions
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South Bend Tribune
Residents shocked and concerned by elevated lead hazards in South Bend neighborhoods
June 27, 2024
SOUTH BEND — Ornella Joseph and Vikrant Jandev, graduate students with the Notre Dame Lead Innovation Team, provided lead testing at the summer kickoff at Randolph Park on June 1.
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Nature
Messaging risk to drive coastal adaptation
June 26, 2024
Tracy Kijewski-Correa: The acute effects of climate change are already manifesting, yet coastal residents have taken little action to mitigate these effects or adapt to them.
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The Washington Post
Scientists found another way we’re exposed to ‘forever chemicals’: Through our skin
June 26, 2024
Waterproof cosmetics like mascara, long-wear matte lipsticks and waterproof clothing are examples of products with PFAS that could be absorbed through the skin, said Graham Peaslee, a physics professor at the University of Notre Dame who frequently tests for PFAS in everyday products.
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Time
Swifties Band Together to Show Palestinian Solidarity at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour
June 25, 2024
Erin Rossiter, one of the researchers, says that while it’s not clear the extent to which Swifties’ complaints led to the U.S. Department of Justice suing Ticketmaster and its parent company, she and her colleague “like to think and speculate” that this grassroots effort among Swifties “shed light on this issue.”
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‘Hybrid’ disaster response shows how localization saves lives
June 18, 2024
Tracy Kijewski-Correa, professor of engineering and global affairs and the William J. Pulte Director of the Pulte Institute for Global Development, part of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, was the lead author for the study, published in the Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering.
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The Wall Street Journal
Have a Boring Task to Do at Work? Don’t Just Plow Through It
June 18, 2024
Boredom serves an important purpose, much like pain, says Casher Belinda, an assistant professor of management at Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, and a co-author of the research.
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Bloomberg
Climate Change Is Putting Swelling Cities at Risk
June 14, 2024
Countries without ND-GAIN index scores or negative projected urban population growth not shown
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How Colleges and Universities Are Reshaping the Science of Sport
June 14, 2024
At the University of Notre Dame, and in partnership with the NFL, researchers are using advanced sensors, machine learning, statistical analysis, and mathematical modeling to examine the risk factors that lead to hamstring injuries. Through rigorous research, the University’s Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics – along with its Department of Athletics – hope to improve training or prevention programs by better understanding which risk factors predispose an athlete to hamstring injury.
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National Geographic
Becoming a dad comes with a lot of changes—including to your health
June 13, 2024
"Children who grow up with invested fathers have better social, emotional, and academic outcomes than children without such fathers," says Lee Gettler, a biological anthropologist and director of the Hormones, Health, and Human Behavior Lab at the University of Notre Dame.
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Four things you should know: Climate change & Small Island Developing States—by the numbers
June 07, 2024
Out of the 192 countries ranked in the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index sub-index of exposure to climate change, 10 of the 19 countries in the most exposed decile are SIDS.
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Inside Indiana Business
Notre Dame joins Universities Space Research Association
June 07, 2024
The University of Notre Dame has been inducted into the Universities Space Research Association, a consortium of 121 universities that works to advance space-related education and research.
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Local governments hand out fentanyl test strips, but they could be illegal in Indiana
June 06, 2024
Researchers at University of Notre Dame test fentanyl and other test strips for their effectiveness. Dr. Marya Lieberman’s team tested five different test strip brands on more than 200 compounds. Lieberman found that while there are sometimes false positives, overwhelmingly, the strips on the market are accurate and effective when used properly.
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Grocery Shopping Could Prove Your Credit Worthiness
June 06, 2024
A naive approach of simply throwing all our data at this problem without any structure is unlikely to work,'” says Joonhyuk Yang, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.
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Concert ticket fiasco got Taylor Swift fans into politics
June 05, 2024
University of Notre Dame researchers Erin Rossiter, a professor of political science, and Jeff Harden, a professor in the political science department, tested a political science theory called “issue publics.”
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
Should You Use Your Classroom as a Lab?
June 03, 2024
James M. Lang is a professor of practice at the University of Notre Dame’s Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence. His most recent book is Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It, published by Basic Books. He also is the author of Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning.
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South Bend Tribune
Which local city made the Top 25 for 'Best Place to Live'? South Bend, of course
June 03, 2024
"The University of Notre Dame is the area’s largest employer, " U.S. News wrote and also highlighted several health care firms as being other major employers.
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Embracing boredom at work is better instead of powering through
June 03, 2024
Above all, we shouldn’t try to fight it at all costs, according to Assistant Professor of Management at Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business Casher Belinda, who is lead author of the study.
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Online shoppers behave differently after chatting with staff of the opposite gender, new research shows – here’s why businesses should be paying attention
June 03, 2024
Yoonseock Son, Assistant Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations, University of Notre Dame; Corey Angst, Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations, University of Notre Dame; Kaitlin Wowak, Associate Professor of IT, Analytics and Operations, University of Notre Dame.
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phys.org
Study: Grocery shopping habits prove credit worthiness, aiding those without credit history
May 23, 2024
New research from the University of Notre Dame shows that repeated trips to the grocery store may be all that's necessary to prove creditworthiness.
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Young Hondurans’ desire to migrate is influenced by factors beyond poverty and violence
May 20, 2024
By Maria Estela Rivero Fuentes, Senior Researcher, University of Notre Dame. The University of Notre Dame’s Tom Hare and Laura Miller-Graff co-authored the study.