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    An older Asian man with graying hair smiles gently, wearing a black jacket and white shirt. Behind him is a whiteboard covered in blurry scientific equations and diagrams.

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    Professor Hsueh-Chia Chang has been a Notre Dame faculty member for nearly 40 years. He has worked with over 70 Ph.D. and postdoctoral students on low-cost and portable medical devices for screening diseases. His NIH- and NSF-funded research ranges from fundamental engineering principles to product development. His goal is to reduce disease mortality in low-resource communities.

    Brown-haired woman in a light blue collared shirt looking intently at colorful bar charts projected on a white wall. She has a subtle smile.

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    When products we use or eat are dangerous, safety recalls can be a matter of life and death. And when a pandemic forces factories to shift production to ventilators or PPE, bottlenecks risk more lives. IT and analytics expert Kaitlin Wowak's research is helping companies increase the speed of safety recalls and quickly turn production lines in response to market needs.

A teacher in a patterned dress writes a mathematics problem about determining profit margin on a classroom blackboard. Several students in cream and green uniforms sit at desks, facing the lesson.

Social sciences stories

    Social sciences stories

    1. Illustration of a hopscotch like pattern with business symbols in the shape of a dollar sign with a business woman standing at the bottom.

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      Bringing humans back into the equation

      Finance professor Andrea Tamoni has devoted his career to understanding how the behavior of sophisticated institutions (and less-sophisticated individuals) shapes financial systems.

    2. A man in a blue suit pushes a large red arrow upwards, turning its direction from a downward trend. Several dark blue arrows continue to point downwards in the background.

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      Investor attention on individual stocks can predict marketwide performance

      When retail investors suddenly pay more attention to the stock market, returns over the next week tend to fall. But when institutional investors start paying more attention, returns over the next week tend to rise — especially when big news is about to come out, according to new research from University of Notre Dame finance professor Zhi Da.

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      Opioid epidemic reaches beyond health impacts to influence politics

      Vicky Barone, assistant professor of economics at Notre Dame, researched the origins and development of the opioid epidemic and found that the unregulated marketing of potent painkillers led to increased access to prescription opioids and subsequent overdose mortalities. Tracing the long-term consequences of opioid overdose deaths on the political landscape in America, she found an increased support for conservative beliefs and Republican candidates.