McKenna Center program opens doors for disadvantaged entrepreneurs

The University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs and the Organization of American States have launched a new partnership to strengthen democracy and defend human rights efforts across Latin America. To that end, the institutions will collaborate on joint research and policy projects, exchange faculty experts and train undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers who work in development, human rights and democracy.

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New research from Kristen Ferguson, assistant professor of marketing at Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, finds that consumers are less likely to donate to charities on their smartphones, a phenomenon called the "mobile giving gap."

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The Democratic Party is considering a virtual format for its 2024 Democratic National Convention much like the one held in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. A recent survey conducted by a political scientist at the University of Notre Dame asked the delegates to the 2020 convention how they felt about the virtual format and found that while most of them considered the event a success, a large majority of them would prefer to attend in person to foster unity among party activists.

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The USRA consists of 121 universities that work together to advance space-related education, research, development and operations around the world. The organization noted that research at Notre Dame “is built around a robust framework of strong interdisciplinary and collaborative activities both within in-house departments and with other renowned national and international institutes.”

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