Articles from Lehigh University

People are the most important component of resilience. Researchers at Lehigh University’s Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience are closely monitoring the tragedy unfolding in Southeast Asia.

Two of the ten most damaging earthquakes in recorded history happened on January 17th. This year is the thirtieth anniversary of Japan’s Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. The Northridge Earthquake in Southern California happened just one year earlier, in 1994. The two events killed 6,400 people, injured 45,000, and left a half million people homeless.

People are the most important component of resilience. Researchers at Lehigh University’s Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience urge all those in the path of wildfires currently spreading in and around Los Angeles, California to heed the advice of authorities managing the unfolding disaster.

When researchers and graduate students at Lehigh University began planning a Workshop on Climate, Equity, and Resilience in Catastrophe Modeling, they had no idea the gathering would become a roundtable in the wake of the most devastating two weeks in modern meteorological history. The landfalls of hurricanes Helene and Milton, just thirteen days apart and less than a week before the workshop, caused 300 billion dollars in damage across seven states. The storms left more than 250 people dead and laid bare the need to improve the modeling of these events from a number of perspectives including engineering, infrastructure, supply chains, and social support networks.

Lehigh University (the “University”) has announced that it is currently evaluating the potential issuance of one or more series of bonds (collectively, the “Bonds”) on or about July 2024.*