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10 posts tagged "Public Health"

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Anarchy in production

Trevor Lwere | Monday, March 15, 2021

Finally, it seems like the world will prevail over the novel coronavirus. Whereas it will be a while before any sense of normalcy in our lives is restored, the rollout of the vaccination campaign in different parts of the world over the past couple of months is a hopeful sign. Yet, even in this apparently

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Send the students home

Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, August 19, 2020

I write this as an alumna, as a public health professional and as someone who has worked on infectious disease: Notre Dame needs to immediately return to remote learning for the remainder of the semester and develop a comprehensive plan to return its students safely home. It must be emphasized that the outbreak at Notre

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In the face of fear

Theresa Tulsiak | Monday, April 6, 2020

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act in spite of it.” –Franklin D. Roosevelt I think a lot about the firefighters that stood in front of the Twin Towers, looked up and ran straight into the building with the knowledge that this may be the last time they ever put

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Stay home: A plea to the people

BridgeND | Monday, March 30, 2020

The United States is becoming the world’s epicenter for COVID-19, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting over 103,321 cases as of March 28. That’s nearly seven times the number of confirmed cases from just one week ago, according to the World Health Organization. To make matters worse, we know that most people

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ND faculty discuss public health, importance of remote learning in ‘flattening the curve’

Isabella Volmert | Monday, March 23, 2020

Before students left for spring break, engineering professor Jeff Kantor created a model simulation of how COVID-19 could affect the Notre Dame campus and showed it to his students. Kantor explained the model is standard to predict the outcomes of infectious disease which most engineering and STEM students learn early on in their education.  The

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Two sides of the coronavirus

Andrew Sveda | Monday, March 23, 2020

Well, we’ve officially lost it. No doubt about that. Make no mistake, containing the coronavirus, let alone actually curing it, will be anything but an easy fight. But the media has spun the American public into an absolute frenzy. Grocery aisles once filled with nonperishables (and toilet paper) now lay absolutely bare. As everything flies

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Health officials declare first case of coronavirus in Indiana, University updates community via email

Observer Staff Report | Friday, March 6, 2020

After the first identified case of coronavirus in Indiana, Governor Eric Holcomb declared a public health emergency to receive federal funding for response, FOX 59 reported Friday. The patient, a resident of Marion County, traveled to Boston, coming into contact with people infected with coronavirus. After arriving back in Indiana on Wednesday, the article said

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Do you know what’s in your dorm’s pizza? Notre Dame doesn’t

Ben Testani | Thursday, November 7, 2019

In the fall of 2018, Notre Dame struck a deal with Saint Joseph’s County to take over food safety inspections of its property. With dozens of food service establishments on campus, from the dining halls to hot dog stands in the football stadium, the University framed this arrangement as a way to relieve the overburdened

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The opioid battle

Jordan Ryan | Monday, February 26, 2018

Not a day goes by without seeing something in the news regarding the opioid crisis. On average, we lose 176 Americans a day to drug overdoses. Unfortunately, we have yet to unlock an effective solution capable of producing successful results. State and local governments have reacted to this crisis by, at least in part, playing

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Lecture links cholera to environment

Henry Gens | Thursday, March 20, 2014

As part of the Notre Dame Forum on Women in Leadership, Dr. Rita Colwell, distinguished university professor at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, gave a lecture titled “Oceans, Climate and Human Health: the Cholera Paradigm.” Colwell prefaced her talk on cholera by borrowing Hippocrates view, which stated that in order to

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In the wake of the University’s announcement of In the wake of the University’s announcement of Zahm House’s disbandment, The Observer began an investigation into the dorm’s so-called “troubling culture.” 

The investigation revealed several incidents contributing to the administration’s decision, including Zahm residents’ disregard for and plans to alter COVID-19 tests as well as vandalism within and beyond the walls of the hall.

The Observer also obtained a series of email chains sent between roughly 200 Zahm residents from 2019-2020, in which students shared graphic and misogynistic jokes regarding sex and sexual assault.  

Read more about COVID-19 cases and plans to alter results, annual vandalism costs, the disputed culture of the dorm, the Zahm residents’ take on the dorm’s closure and what the final decision means for Notre Dame residential life on The Observer’s website. 

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📸: Isabella Volmert
Graphic: Peyton Stearns
This week’s edition of From the Archives shares This week’s edition of From the Archives shares spirited stories of Notre Dame Campus Dining and the strong allegiances to North and South Dining Halls. Including food poisoning, food fights and marital rivalries, the dining halls’ eventful past adds to the history and tradition of Notre Dame. 

Read more about the story by clicking the link in bio. 
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Pictured: Mike Quigg, Barbara Quigg, Edna Anspaugh and Jim Anspaugh, NDH and SDH employees
📸: Observer archives, Jan. 31, 2003
After a week filled with virtual panels and a Yom After a week filled with virtual panels and a Yom Hashoah Holocaust Remembrance prayer service, today marks the final day of Antisemitism Awareness Week.

In light of the recent increase in antisemitism, the Jewish Club at Notre Dame organized this event to both engage and educate the community about combatting this type of hatred.

On Wednesday, Notre Dame’s student senate unanimously voted to pass Resolution SS 2021-37, which calls upon the University to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism — one that has been embraced by nations, international organizations and universities across the world.

“One of the purposes of the working definition is that it’s hard to combat something if you can’t name it, or understand what it is and define it,” said Jewish Club president junior Bella Niforatos about the importance of adopting IHRA’s definition.

After Tuesday’s incident — where a group of non-ND affiliated people zoom-bombed one of the presentations — Jewish Club secretary sophomore Blake Ziegler said the club received an outpour of support from different members of the community. To create a more inclusive space, he said Notre Dame should actively embrace its Jewish members.

“The best way the Notre Dame community can show solidarity with the Jewish community is honestly just engagement, education, learning more about Judaism, engaging your Jewish friends and family, being open to listening to them and their concerns and addressing them,” he said.

After this week, Niforatos said there is one thing the Notre Dame community should remember: “If you have a voice, then you should use it.”

Read more at the link in bio.
📷: María Luisa Paúl 

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David Prior’s “The Empty Man” hit theaters i David Prior’s “The Empty Man” hit theaters in October 2020 and despite being a film by 20th Century, it received no advertising or fanfare whatsoever, which naturally resulted in the film having a remarkably short theatrical run.

Read more about the film by clicking the link in bio.
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📸: Elaine Park
ICYMI: University President Fr. John Jenkins annou ICYMI: University President Fr. John Jenkins announced in a Wednesday email that Notre Dame will require all undergraduate, graduate and professional students to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus in order to enroll for the 2021-2022 academic year.

“Our goal for the fall semester will be to have as many members of the campus community vaccinated as possible, thereby reducing the risk of infection on campus and in the local community,” Jenkins said.

The University will respect documented medical and religious exemptions to the vaccine, according to the email.

Learn more about the new requirement at the link in bio. 
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No. 12 Notre Dame clinched a conference-leading fi No. 12 Notre Dame clinched a conference-leading fifth series win in ACC play this past weekend as the Irish grabbed two wins out of three at No. 17 Pittsburgh.

Irish head coach Link Jarrett said he was pleased with another good weekend against a quality opponent, as well as the progress his team has made so far this season.

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Pictured: Outfielder, Brooks Coetzee, junior
📸: Ryan Vigilante
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