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Annual i-Lab Showcase Spotlights Solutions to Social Challenges

Annual i-Lab Showcase Spotlights Solutions to Social Challenges

The Keough School, in partnership with the Pulte Institute, recently hosted its i-Lab Showcase. The annual event was an opportunity for Master of Global Affairs students to present their summer fieldwork and internships, research and creative activities, conducted in conjunction with partners across the world as part of the i-Lab's Global Partner Experience — a learning-by-doing approach that allows MGA students to work at the front lines of today’s most pressing challenges.

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Pulte Institute Welcomes New Faculty

Pulte Institute Welcomes New Faculty

The Pulte Institute recently welcomed eight new core affiliated faculty members whose work is distinguished by an emphasis on poverty and inequality, and the social dimensions of environmental issues.

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Look to Local Leaders to Get SDGs Back on Track

Pulte Institute Visiting Associate Rachel Svetanoff says as the United Nations convenes the SDG Summit at its New York Headquarters during the General Assembly high-level week in September, the session mark a crucial milestone in the journey towards achieving the 2030 Agenda and the urgent need to put the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) back on track.

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Notre Dame Launches New MENA Business Leadership Program

Notre Dame Launches New MENA Business Leadership Program

The Pulte Institute, in association with international experts and partners at Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, joined forces to establish the inaugural Reimagining Business Excellence program. Hosted by the University's Global Gateway in Jerusalem, the program serves leaders and entrepreneurs who work and care for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

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Pulte Institute Announces Senior Leadership Change

Pulte Institute Announces Senior Leadership Change

Tracy Kijewski-Correa, engineering and global affairs professor, became the Pulte Institute's William J. Pulte Director, effective July 1. She replaces Ray Offenheiser, who became senior advisor to Scott Appleby, the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School, and serves as the director of the McKenna Center for Human Development. 

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Pamoja Summit designed to accompany African partners

Pamoja Summit designed to accompany African partners

The up-and-coming Pamoja ND Africa initiative focused on collaborative, interdisciplinary research and professional connections hosted a two-day conference, “Pamoja Nairobi Partnership Summit,” on May 24 and 25 at Strathmore University School of Business in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Broadening understanding of water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions

Water insecurity is a daily challenge for billions of people around the world. While many initiatives seek to improve access to water and its quality, a new study highlights the importance of a comprehensive approach to WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) projects. 

The study, Measuring transformative WASH: A new paradigm for evaluating water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions

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New $9 million Keough School gift for Pulte Platform for Policy Studies

Established in 2012 as part of the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs and changing its name to the Pulte Institute for Global Development after entering into a $111 million partnership with the Pulte Family Charitable Foundation in 2019, the Pulte Institute plays a vital role in identifying and resolving the systemic causes of poverty and inequality.

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Remarks of Branko Milanovic

Remarks of Branko Milanovic

Delivered as a part of the Pulte Institute Lecture Series underwritten by the Ford Foundation at the University of Notre Dame Eck Visitors Center on April 25, 2023.
 

What is global inequality? Technically, global inequality is inequality among all citizens of the world. Income inequality is simply considering income after taxes and social transfers over the course of one year.

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SHRI is Making Water Central to Climate Action

SHRI is Making Water Central to Climate Action

In late March, the United Nations hosted the first conference on water in 46 years. The Pulte Institute for Global Development’s Sustainability and Human Rights Initiative (SHRI) was one of 200 groups invited to present its efforts to combat water insecurity. (Only nine other universities were invited to present.) 

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Reimagining Globalization in a 21st-Century World

Reimagining Globalization in a 21st-Century World

The international movement toward open markets prompted by the World Trade Organization is under stress. The W.T.O.’s premise was that trade liberalization would benefit all because individual countries could exploit their position of comparative advantage. However, major trading nations are reevaluating how they want to engage global markets and on what terms. As a result, the foundational principles of contemporary capitalism are suddenly in question.

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The Human Right to Water: SHRI to present at UN Water Conference

The Human Right to Water: SHRI to present at UN Water Conference

“To reach universal access to drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene by 2030, the current rates of progress would need to increase fourfold,” the United Nations says. The Keough School’s Sustainability and Human Rights Initiative (SHRI) is working to achieve that goal. 

SHRI will present on its efforts to combat water insecurity and enhance human flourishing at the United Nations Water Conference on March 22-24, 2023 in New York.

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Visit to Sidi Abdellah University: Advancing Research with our Algerian Partners

Visit to Sidi Abdellah University: Advancing Research with our Algerian Partners

In 2021, the Pulte Institute was selected by the U.S. Department of State for a program facilitated by the U.S. Embassy in Algiers to accelerate the pace of STEM learning in the North African country. The goal was for the Pulte Institute, along with other Notre Dame partners, including the IDEA Center, to collaborate with academic institutions in Algeria to create a Research Hub where researchers, academics, and students from both countries could work together on scientific research more efficiently.…

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