VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY NEWS

ABC News
The Fed Is Divided Over Cutting Interest Rates. Here's Why That Matters    

November 25, 2025 -  Top officials at the Federal Reserve have displayed a rare degree of public disagreement over a possible interest rate cut next month... "We haven't seen this much uncertainty from the Fed in a long time," John Sedunov, a finance professor at Villanova University's School of Business, told ABC News.

CBC Radio
One Year Since the Fall of the Assad Regime in Syria  

November 25, 2025 - Ottawan Samer Abboud, professor of global studies at Villanova University, explains how Syrians are recovering after the end of a 13-year civil war.

Reuters
Pentagon Threatens to Prosecute Senator Mark Kelly by Recalling Him to Navy Service  

November 25, 2025 - Brenner Fissell, a law professor at Villanova University, said Kelly could be facing some legal risk. Kelly lacks the protections of Speech and Debate Clause immunity, Fissell said, which protect lawmakers for statements they make on the House or Senate floor.

The Globe and Mail
The China-Canada Relationship Is Warming Again. But at What Human Cost?  

November 24, 2025 - "In pursuing a reset, however, Mr. Carney would do well to remember that it is impossible to divorce trade from human-rights issues. An insistence on pursuing access to the Chinese market without anappreciation of the sharp edge of Chinese power will result in the long-term failure of Ottawa’s efforts—and will mean trading short-term gain for long-term pain." Preston Lim is an assistant professor at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law.

CNN
NASA Missions Capture New Images as an Interstellar Comet Zips by Mars

November 20, 2025 - Spacecraft missions provide some key observational advantages, said Dr. Theodore Kareta, planetary astronomer and assistant professor in the department of astrophysics and planetary science at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. Cameras and instruments on different spacecraft are geared toward various goals and measurements, and they can provide distinct vantage points that might be otherwise impossible to capture, he said.

NPR
As More Catholic Churches Close, Philadelphia Is Trying Something New  

November 19, 2025 - The Archdiocese of Philadelphia is trying something new, and it starts with listening to ordinary Catholics. "We need to be a church that's meeting people where they are," said Matthew Manion, the faculty director of the Center for Church Management at the Villanova School of Business.