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Dane Sherman | Wednesday, November 11, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused over 230,000 deaths in the United States since the first case of the virus nearly nine months ago. One concern of the pandemic, beyond the direct physical health impact of the virus, is its mental health impact. College students are just one of the groups feeling the mental health impact.
Dane Sherman | Thursday, November 5, 2020
Notre Dame’s Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) is a preeminent research body on campus focused on taking on the wide-ranging and complex challenge of poverty. The lab is run by and co-founded by Professor William Evans. According to Evans, there are many reasons why one might be experiencing economic hardship. “[Some people] dropped
Dane Sherman | Monday, September 28, 2020
This summer Notre Dame’s International Summer Service Learning Program (ISSLP) will plan to hold both in-person and virtual programs in light of the pandemic. The ISSLP program sent their first students abroad in the summer of 1998 at a time when there were very few options available to travel to “less traveled countries,“ ISSLP director
Dane Sherman | Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Last week, associate justice of the Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg died due to complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer. Justice Ginsburg, also referred to as “the Notorious RBG” and the court’s “Great Dissenter,” led with strength in the face of adversity. She spent much of her early career fighting gender discrimination, before being appointed to
Dane Sherman | Tuesday, September 15, 2020
The Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies hosted an engaging panel Monday with experts from institutes around the world entitled “Xinjiang and the Uyghurs: Religion, Oppression and Geopolitics.” The discussion focused on the genocide and forced labor of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang and around China, and what the world needs to do to
Dane Sherman | Thursday, September 3, 2020
In a virtual town hall for off-campus undergraduate students Wednesday, University President Fr. John Jenkins acknowledged the shortcomings of the University’s preparation to reopen in light of COVID-19, but he said he believes the changes Notre Dame has undergone in the past few weeks will allow the University to be better prepared to keep students,
Dane Sherman | Friday, August 28, 2020
The third senate meeting of the academic year convened via Zoom Thursday evening to discuss the current state of Notre Dame affairs. The session began with a reminder from senior student body vice president Sarah Galbenski. “I know that folks might be experiencing a little bit of extra mental health stress right now,” Galbenski said.