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Tracy Kijewski-Correa

Pulte Institute for Global Development; Engineering; Keough 91Ƶ of Global Affairs

Office
3150D Jenkins And Nanovic Halls
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone
574-631-2980
Email
tkijewsk@nd.edu

William J. Pulte Director, Pulte Institute for Global Development; Professor of Engineering and Global Affairs; Academic Director, Integration Lab

  • Engineering for international development
  • Disaster risk reduction
  • Resilient and sustainable communities
  • Civil infrastructure and housing

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Because of the cost, home elevation doesn't always make sense for homeowners, says Tracy Kijewski-Correa, a professor of engineering and global affairs at the University of Notre Dame who studies disaster risk reduction. 

Led by Tracy Kijewski-Correa, professor of engineering and global affairs at the Keough 91Ƶ of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, the study, published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, explored how homeowners respond in the aftermath of hurricanes when reconstruction becomes necessary.

NewsNation

“We got to a situation in our country that, while we don’t lose as many lives in storms, our losses are rising because we have more people coming to the coast and we have therefore grown our exposure to these storms,” said Tracy Kijewski-Correa, a disaster-risk reduction specialist. “We have a climate that’s changing, that’s going to be, regrettably, the perfect storm.”

CBC

"I've seen two-by-fours shot through the walls of buildings in these storms," said Tracy Kijewski-Correa, a professor of engineering at the University of Notre Dame and an expert on disaster risk reduction and civil infrastructure. "That could be Anderson's body."

There’s a new reality. And it’s changing what our local weather forecasters and emergency responders are trying to anticipate, says Tracy Kijewski-Correa, an engineering professor at the University of Notre Dame. 

Tracy Kijewski-Correa is a professor of engineering and global affairs at the University of Notre Dame.

Tracy Kijewski-Correa: The acute effects of climate change are already manifesting, yet coastal residents have taken little action to mitigate these effects or adapt to them. 

Science Magazine

Tracy Kijewski-Correa, professor of engineering and global affairs and the William J. Pulte Director of the Pulte Institute for Global Development, part of Notre Dame’s Keough 91Ƶ of Global Affairs, was the lead author for the study, published in the Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering.

A new anti-poverty initiative launched at the University of Notre Dame with a $100 million gift from an alumni couple will look for new ways of thinking and talking about the issue. “Notre Dame’s Poverty Initiative is driven by a moral imperative to prioritize the needs of the poor and vulnerable, rooted in Catholic social teaching” said Notre Dame economist Jim Sullivan, co-founder and director of the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities. Tracy Kijewski-Correa, director of the university’s Pulte Institute for Global Development, said the initiative is looking for new ways to manage the issue and express its impacts. “Poverty is not just material deprivation,” she said. “It affects everything and every part of a person.”

MediaFeed

“The messaging we’ve been using about avoiding losses in the future — you do this today and in the future you shall be spared — it doesn’t work,” says Tracy Kijewski-Correa, a professor, director of the Pulte Institute for Global Development at the University of Notre Dame, and a co-author of the study.

Hurricane recovery can last at least a decade and sometimes longer, said Tracy Kijewski-Correa, an engineering and global affairs professor at the University of Notre Dame who has worked on several major disasters, including 2017's Hurricane Harvey in Texas.

Science

Events like Ian offer a “very good stress test” for buildings, says Tracy Kijewski-Correa, director of the program and a civil engineer at the University of Notre Dame.

But turning that science into on-the-ground home improvement will be another challenge, says Tracy Kijewski-Correa, a structural engineer at Notre Dame University and NICHE co-lead researcher.

When you first see the sheer magnitude of destruction at the site where a hurricane made landfall, “there’s usually a take-your-breath-away moment,” says Tracy Kijewski-Correa, a structural engineer at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. 

Hakai, Smithsonian Magazine

When you first see the sheer magnitude of destruction where a hurricane made landfall, “there’s usually a take-your-breath-away moment,” says Tracy Kijewski-Correa, a structural engineer at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.