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.
University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., welcomed 23 of Africa’s brightest emerging leaders to campus on June 26 for a six-week Leadership Institute sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. The Pulte Institute has been a Young African Leaders Initiative partner since 2013.
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.
Research recently published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews analyzes the challenges and advancements in the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) field, underlining its crucial impact on global health and development.
When assessing the impact of WASH programs,…
The Pulte Institute, in collaboration with the University of Duhok in the Kurdistan region and other partners, hosted a symposium and panel discussion at the Keough School Washington Office in June to discuss art and culture as a healing force.
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…
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…
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…
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…
There is growing momentum to push for improved, coordinated water management nationally and internationally. But without the private sector's buy-in, this crisis will only accelerate.
Nkosana Masuku and Ludmila Mero, members of Notre Dame’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) 2021 class, were recognized at last week’s International Symposium on Climate Change and Governance in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the new startup…
“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.
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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,…
Water scarcity now threatens the health and development of communities around the globe. And climate change intensifies the problem, pushing governments to find more innovative, collaborative ways to address water stress. That’s why we need new metrics to monitor and assess Safe Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene or WASH interventions, says Pulte Institute Evidence and Learning Associate Director Danice Brown Guzmán.
It has been 20 years since the United States and its allies invaded Iraq in their “war on terror.” What the U.S. sold as a grim but necessary surgical strike for democracy and stability in the Middle East worsened the conditions in which women and children live.
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The devastating toll offers a stark reminder of the urgent need for global communities to strengthen infrastructure to withstand natural hazards like typhoons and earthquakes.
In December, Afghanistan’s Taliban regime ordered all non-governmental groups to suspend employing women, allegedly because some female employees didn’t wear the Islamic headscarf correctly. This “gender apartheid” also devastates Afghan hunger and health.
Earthquakes and tsunamis, referred to among humanitarians as “rapid onset disasters,” strike suddenly on a massive scale, leaving widespread death and destruction and overwhelming local and national response capacities.
Think of the Indian…
This summer, 25 of the brightest young minds from Sub-Saharan Africa will participate in a six-week fellowship at the University of Notre Dame. It’s the 10th year the Pulte Institute for Global Development has served as an institute partner for the Mandela Washington Fellowship, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.
Join us from 9 to 10 am ET on Tuesday, Feb. 27 for a Webcast that brings together officials, policymakers, and experts to discuss Language of Instruction as a critical factor in literacy instruction and global development. The webinar will speak to the research questions that SHARE is trying to answer, the research methodology, and how interested parties can hear more about the study once findings are released at the Comparative International Education Society (CIES) Conference in March and the USAID Global Education Conference (GEC) in April.
With heavy hearts, we remember Andrew J. McKenna Sr., a 1951 Notre Dame graduate who generously supported the McKenna Center and its ‘South Bend Entrepreneurship and Adversity Boot Camp’ for budding entrepreneurs.
At the Pulte Institute, we’re focused on identifying and resolving the systemic causes of the border crisis — versus just dealing with its effects.
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