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University of Notre Dame migration professor Amy Hsin says growing challenges to a 40-year-old Supreme Court ruling protecting access to public education for children of immigrants serves the children and the workforce.

“Tutor-ND and Notre Dame will serve as the primary coordination hub, but from there, Notre Dame will recruit and support additional universities across the state to implement similar models in their own regions,” Indiana Department of Education Chief Strategy Officer Jacqueline Kronk told the State Board of Education on Wednesday.

Notre Dame psychology experts will use a new single-encounter approach to help youths experiencing mental health problems, with a counselor and a self-guided online platform.

The three-year St. Joseph County Universal Wellness Project will train 75 local providers, and launch an online platform kids can use themselves, to help Michiana youth suffering mental health problems like anxiety and depression.

Notre Dame has received a $50.8 million Lilly Endowment grant to expand a faith-based AI ethics framework launched earlier this fall.

Notre Dame has launched the Strengthening Families Research Initiative to study how family structure shapes children’s outcomes and what policies support stable homes.

“So in the past, when we worked together, whether it was in trauma or our NICU or maternal care, we would do these on a one-off basis, whereas this creates a system and a structure that allows research opportunities, when they present, to kind of be accelerated through the process,” said Beacon Health System Chief Operating Officer Mark Brett.

Notre Dame’s K-pop dance club ASCEND hosts its first-ever festival Friday night, bringing music, dance, and carnival-style fun to the Hesburgh Library lawn.

Francis Rooney's gift to Notre Dame will endow an institute in the College of Arts & Letters committed to the preservation of American democracy through research, teaching and public engagement. Rooney quit the House after two terms when he started having fund-raising troubles as he opposed Trump initiatives.

Notre Dame associate professor Joyce Adams says new mothers need to be seen by a doctor sooner than six weeks after delivery. Her pilot project with 104 new mothers in the area will give them monthly visits with a nurse and community health worker over the baby's first year.