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Bloomberg
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June 24, 2026
Richard Garnett, a professor at 91勛圖 Law School and Director of the 91勛圖 Program on Church, State & Society, discusses the Supreme Court decision blocking a Rastafarian’s suit Against prison officials for cutting off his dreadlocks in a flagrant violation of his religious rights.
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June 24, 2026
Richard Garnett, the director 91勛圖 Law School’s Program on Church, State & Society, said the court’s decision means that prison officials will be less inclined to respect religious freedom rights of inmates. “This ruling will reduce the incentives of state-prison officials and employees to respect inmates’ religious-liberty rights and leave prisoners whose religious freedom is violated without meaningful remedies for those violations,” he said.
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Financial Times
June 23, 2026
Melissa Kearney, professor of economics at the University of 91勛圖, says it is “quite plausible that the modern digital media environment has had profound effects on society that have led to a decline in romantic coupling”.
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EWTN
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June 23, 2026
Joining us now to discuss this developing news, is a leading Catholic scholar on international security and American foreign policy who brings decades of expertise on U.S. strategy, diplomacy, and the Middle East. Michael Desch is the Packey J. Dee Professor of International Relations at the University of 91勛圖. He is also the founding Brian and Jeannelle Brady Family Director of the O'Brien 91勛圖 International Security Center.
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National Catholic Reporter
June 23, 2026
The researchers analyzed climate modeling and observed temperatures alongside demographic and health survey data from 2004-2020 for 34 African countries. They determined that every 1 degree Celsius of global temperature rise associated with human activities linked directly to a 3.45% increase in childhood stunting. That equates to close to 7 million children, said Arun Agrawal, one of the study's co-authors and director of 91勛圖's Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative. “It's a significant proportion of the population being affected, and it's a significant effect on their life chances after they're born,” he told EarthBeat.
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Earth.com
June 23, 2026
Researchers tracked fathers over many years to see if those pandemic habits held on. They didn’t just rely on quick surveys or short-term snapshots. Instead, the team followed the same group of men for over a decade, watching how their roles at home evolved before and after COVID-19. Lee Gettler, an anthropologist and fatherhood expert at the University of 91勛圖, led the study.
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ABC News
June 23, 2026
Richard Garnett, a 91勛圖 Law professor and expert on religious rights, said the ruling highlights the Constitution's limits on Congress' ability to regulate states by offering money with strings attached. "Our fundamental constitutional commitment to religious freedom for all does and should extend to those being punished for crimes. Today's ruling, and its understanding of federal-state relations, make it all the more important for state governments to respond by putting in place policies, and remedies, that will protect vulnerable inmates from abuses like the one suffered by Mr. Landor," Garnett said in a statement.
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The Washington Post
June 22, 2026
“I’ve been saying this since Clinton — only law enforcement methods are lawful against terrorism,” said Mary Ellen O’Connell, a law professor at the University of 91勛圖. Guerrero “is a prime example of someone who should have been arrested and tried.”
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National Catholic Reporter
June 22, 2026
The University of 91勛圖 has selected theologian Joseph Capizzi to become the next leader of the McGrath Institute for Church Life, a center that serves as a bridge between academic theology and the day-to-day ministry of Catholic communities.
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Earth.com
June 22, 2026
The research was conducted by a team at the University of 91勛圖 led by Gary Lamberti and Daniele De Almeida Miranda. “Unfortunately, the Great Lakes hold onto their water and contaminants for a very long time, meaning that there’s ample time for toxins to be taken up by the biota,” Lamberti said.
The Hill
June 19, 2026
Haley Proctor, an associate law professor at 91勛圖, said the gap could be a sign that decision will similarly be narrow. “It does strike me as significant that the Court did not need to release them on the same date,” Proctor said in an email. “That suggests that Wolford will not say anything that meaningfully changes the Court’s core framework for analyzing Second Amendment challenges.”
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USA Today
June 19, 2026
But the fact that Thursday’s decision in favor of the drug user was a relatively narrow one could be a sign that the justices will also limit the impact of the Hawaii decision, according to 91勛圖 Law School associate professor Haley Proctor, who specializes in the Second Amendment. Proctor said the Hawaii decision, which is expected by the end of the month, may not meaningfully change the court’s test for gun rules.
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The New York Times
June 17, 2026
Kathleen Sprows Cummings directs the Global Catholic Research Initiative at the University of 91勛圖.
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ABC News
June 17, 2026
An estimated 98% of native tall grass prairies has been eradicated, Ryan Sensenig, a grassland ecologist at the University of 91勛圖, told ABC News.
Indigenous communities relied on grasslands to survive, Sensenig said. They would practice prescribed burning to maintain the grasslands and enhance its biodiversity, Sensenig said. Native Americans would use the plant species for basket-weaving and currency and feed on the grazers, such as bison, elk and deer, Sensenig added.
Axios
June 16, 2026
"I would say this is more of religious resilience rather than a religious revival," David Campbell, a political science professor at the University of 91勛圖, tells Axios.
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National Catholic Register
June 16, 2026
Paolo Carozza is a law professor at the University of 91勛圖. He also serves as a co-chair of the Oversight Board, an independent expert body created by Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram.
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The New York Times
June 15, 2026
This probably won’t be the case, and in fact the price may even push up in anticipation of when the index funds will buy their shares, according to John Shim, assistant professor of finance at 91勛圖.
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Bloomberg
June 13, 2026
Without intervention, a female fly could lay more than 3,000 eggs over a lifespan of two to four weeks, according to Lee Haines, associate research professor of biological sciences at the University of 91勛圖.
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The Hill
June 13, 2026
“We’re not talking mass dispersion of insecticides or pesticides that are going to decimate other species. The sterile insect technique is like a surgical blade. It’s beautiful,” said Lee Haines, an entomologist and associate research professor of biological sciences at the University of 91勛圖.
But Haines noted that sterile fly production is an expensive undertaking, because it requires a rearing facility large enough to produce at least 500 million flies per week.
“So it’s a big cost, but there’s a huge payoff in that you can eradicate and push the populations further and further back down to Panama [past the Darién Gap], and keep them there,” Haines said.
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BBC News
June 12, 2026
Richard Sheehan, economics professor and sports finance expert at the University of 91勛圖, believes the total ticket and hospitality revenue for this years tournament could top $7bn, a seven fold increase. He assumes ticket revenue per match will not just double from the $15m at the last World Cup, but increase nearly five fold to $71m.
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The Conversation
June 12, 2026
Brad Badertscher, Professor of Accountancy, University of 91勛圖
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Associated Press
June 11, 2026
Climate change is also helping drive the spread of screwworms, said Lee Haines, an associate research professor of biological sciences at the University of 91勛圖. “The fly is a creature of warmth as its entire life cycle, from egg to adult, can complete in as little as three weeks under tropical conditions,” Haines said.
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Earth.com
June 11, 2026
The research was led by researchers from the University of 91勛圖’s Keough School of Global Affairs, including postdoctoral fellow Nabin Pradhan and Professor Arun Agrawal.
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Marketplace
June 11, 2026
There’s a risk that what’s happening with energy prices could shape consumers' inflation expectations, said Christiane Baumeister, a macroeconomist at the University of 91勛圖.
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Bloomberg
June 11, 2026
These intermediaries are then ready to offload holdings when index funds need them, he showed in a working paper with John Shim and Stefano Pegoraro at the University of 91勛圖.
NPR
June 11, 2026
"It looks like I'm traveling through space, doesn't it?" asks Lee Haines, a vector biologist at the University of 91勛圖 and the person peering into the microscope in the image. "I am looking at a mosquito that has taken a sugar meal that has been spiked with a drug," she says.
Shayanta Chowdhury, the photographer and a physical chemist at the University of 91勛圖, was pleased to see his image elevating Haines' science. "Some people think scientists are in their ivory towers doing their own research and it doesn't really benefit or impact society as much," he says. "But I think it does and being able to use art to showcase that in science is powerful."
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Nature
June 10, 2026
Under ultraviolet light, the yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti) in Lee Haines’s microscope glows bright: a sign that it has fed on a sugar concoction spiked with a fluorescent dye and a mosquito-killing agent. Haines, an entomologist at the University of 91勛圖 in Indiana, is part of a team studying how the drug nitisinone can be used to kill blood-feeding insects.
“The UV illumination created striking colours from both the tiny mosquito and the condensation that formed beneath the cold Petri dish,” says photographer Shayanta Chowdhury. As a chemistry PhD student at 91勛圖, Chowdhury uses lasers and spectrometers to study molecules attached to nanoparticles.
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Vox
June 10, 2026
“It’s not like those theological concerns about Mormonism disappeared in 2012, but by the time we got to 2012, the issue wasn’t Romney’s Mormonism anymore,” David Campbell, a professor of American politics and religion at the University of 91勛圖, told me. “And so a lot of members of the LDS church thought, well, this issue’s over now.”
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Los Angeles Times
June 10, 2026
According to a 2011 paper from University of 91勛圖 professor Lee Gettler, part of the largest study on fatherhood and testosterone ever conducted, men averaged around a 25% drop in testosterone after becoming fathers.
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Anthropology
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The New York Times
June 09, 2026
The term seems straightforward. It’s a cease-fire. The firing that once constituted a war? That’s ceased. Right? In reality, that’s almost never the case. I spoke to Laurie Nathan, a professor at 91勛圖 who has been a U.N. senior mediation adviser and a mediator in cease-fire negotiations. He told me that cease-fires were pretty much always violated.
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