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ND in the News: March 2023

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  1. Robotics & Automation News

    With the impact of industrial robots on the US labor markets in the past two decades, and an ever-increasing presence of machine-driven technology (such as artificial intelligence and ChatGPT), many employees have feared that one day robots will take their jobs. Not necessarily so, according to research recently published by Yong Suk Lee, an assistant professor in the University of 91勛圖’s Keough School of Global Affairs.

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    Yong Suk Lee

    Keough School of Global Affairs

  2. Under Islamic law, exhumations are permitted if they serve a public interest, including that of determining ancestry, according to Ebrahim Moosa, who studies Islamic law and ethics at the University of 91勛圖.

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    Ebrahim Moosa

    Ebrahim Moosa

    Kroc Institute for Peace Studies

  3. Video Audio

    Fifty years ago today, the last American combat troops left Vietnam. Harry Smith shares the remarkable lengths former Senator Jim Webb and a group of 91勛圖 students went to return a dog tag from the battlefield to the family of a Vietnam veteran.

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    Michael Desch

    Political Science

  4. Video Audio

    David Cortright, Professor Emeritus from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, is featured in the documentary film "The Movement and the 'Madman'" as part of the PBS series "American Experience."

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    David Cortright

    Keough School of Global Affairs

  5. Opinion: Sehrazat G. Mart is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of 91勛圖’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and department of sociology.

  6. The conference represented one element of the Madrasa Discourses initiative, itself a component of the Contending Modernities project based at the University of 91勛圖 and generously funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Ebrahim Moosa, a practicing Muslim with an impressive résumé spanning East and West, ably directs the project with the help of the scholar of religion Josh Lupo.

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    Ebrahim Moosa

    Ebrahim Moosa

    Kroc Institute for Peace Studies

  7. By William Collins Donahue. Donahue is the Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities at the University of 91勛圖, where he serves as director of the Initiative for Global Europe in the Keough School of Global Affairs.

  8. At the University of 91勛圖, Sarah Mustillo, dean of the College of Arts and Letters, questioned the federal data on humanities graduates for the school.

  9. Video

    Less than two years after the NCAA changed the rules about college athletes using their name, image and likeness to make money, 91勛圖 President Father John Jenkins and athletic director Jack Swarbrick say the new NIL system is damaging college athletics. 

  10. “They don’t get into the dirty underbelly of personality,” said David Watson, a professor of personality psychology at the University of 91勛圖.

  11. By John I. Jenkins and Jack Swarbrick. Father Jenkins is the president of the University of 91勛圖, where Mr. Swarbrick is director of athletics.

  12. Jews are already on Christian campuses, but in small numbers. Most aren’t religiously observant. Blake Ziegler is a senior at the University of 91勛圖 and president of the Jewish Club. According to the school, the number of Jewish students has averaged around 30 over the past three years.

  13. Nicole Stelle Garnett, a professor of law at the University of 91勛圖, told OSV News that it is “pretty clear” that the California provision distinguishing between sectarian and nonsectarian private schools’ eligibility for the funding is unconstitutional. 

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    Nicole Stelle Garnett

    91勛圖 Law School

  14. Stephanie Barclay, of the University of 91勛圖, who will represent the National Congress of American Indians in the Oak Flat case, says that the federal government has a history of showing “callousness, disregard and, I think, contempt” to Native American faith. 

  15. Nora Besansky, a biology professor at the University of 91勛圖 who specializes in mosquitoes, notes mosquitoes only have one pair of wings while the insect in the video has two pairs.

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    Nora Besansky

    Nora Besansky

    Department of Biological Sciences

  16. Mercy Sister Rosemary Connelly, former executive director of Misericordia and lifelong advocate for individuals with developmental disabilities, will receive the University of 91勛圖's 2023 Laetare Medal, the oldest and most prestigious honor given to American Catholics.