October 2005
Film uncovers emotional, spiritual challenges of illegal immigrants
By: Shannon Chapla
The immigrant clutches onto a speeding train, hanging on between two freight cars, exhausted and praying he doesn’t slip to his death, while his friend hugs the top of an adjoining car, ducking tree branches, afraid to move, dirty, hungry and heartbroken after saying goodbye to his wife and children. >
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Political scientist is co-author of book on political participation
By: Susan Guibert
David E. Campbell, a political scientist at the University of Notre Dame, is a co-author of a new book that proposes means to invigorate the political participation of Americans. >
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Argonne, Notre Dame launch nuclear theory initiative
By: William G. Gilroy
The Physics Division at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Notre Dame’s Physics Department have begun a new collaborative research initiative which they hope will produce a new understanding of the nuclei present in the evolution of our galaxy. > Read the Full Article
Opposition to Mubarak is story of election
By: Matthew V. Storin
It was always presumed that Hosni Mubarak would easily win reelection as the president of Egypt in Wednesday’s polling, an election that the Bush administration has praised as a first step toward democracy. But the far more significant outcome of the election is that over the last year a strong and significant opposition movement against Mubarak went public, according to Geneive Abdo, a fellow in the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Abdo is the author of "No God But God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam" (Oxford University Press, 2000). >
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Is the U.S. Ready for Egyptian Democracy?
By: Geneive Abdo
In the wake of Egypt's reelection of President Hosni Mubarak on Sept. 7, the chattering classes have been pouring praise on Mubarak's government for a vote they view as a first step toward shattering a half-century of authoritarian rule. For the first time in Egyptian history, multiple candidates were allowed to stand in the election. And many assume that credit is due the Bush administration for its persistent pleas for democracy in the Arab world. >
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Continuing brain evolution tied to cultural behaviors
By: Susan Guibert
The recent discovery of changes in two genes thought to regulate brain growth has some scientists convinced that the human brain is still a work in progress, but a University of Notre Dame anthropologist says that these findings need to be interpreted in a cultural context, and that not only the brain, but every aspect of the human being is still evolving. >
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