This week, the 2022 Graduate Summer Fellows gave presentations on their ongoing research projects at the midpoint of the 10-week program at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. The eight Fellows presented their research progress to date and next steps, receiving feedback from their peers, Pardee Center staff, and affiliated faculty. The Fellows will […]
This week, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future welcomes the 15th cohort of the Graduate Summer Fellows program to the Center. This year’s session includes BU graduate students representing five different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments. Over the course of the next 10 weeks, the Fellows will write […]
As American female labor force participation and educational attainment has grown over the past seven decades, laws supporting women with children have not kept pace with changes in workforce demographics, particularly in the form of paid maternity leave. Relative to its economic counterparts, the United States has shown a significant delay in addressing the increasing […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2022 Graduate Summer Fellows. These eight outstanding Boston University graduate students represent five different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments. Starting May 31, the Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks developing research papers to be considered for publication […]
Joseph Harris, an Associate Professor of Sociology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and Jon Shaffer, a former Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow, recently co-authored a paper comparing the contributions of four major social science disciplines — anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology […]
Application Deadline: Tuesday, March 15 Download full application instructions Applications are now being accepted for the 2022 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program, which offers graduate students from across Boston University an opportunity for intensive interdisciplinary research and writing on topics aligned with the future-focused research interests of BU’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study […]
On September 8, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted its annual fall reception. At the beginning of the reception, the Pardee Center’s 2021 Graduate Summer Fellows gave a series of lightning talks on the outcomes of their summer research. The posters from the lightning talks are available to […]
Former Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow Nicholas Ray and Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Robinson (Wally) Fulweiler co-authored a new paper presenting a review of how we assess denitrification in oyster habitats. In recent years, oyster aquaculture has been recognized as a novel technique to remove excess nitrogen from coastal ecosystems. In this paper, published in the […]
On August 6, the 2021 session of the Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows program came to an end, concluding the program’s thirteenth year. During the last week of the 10-week program, which was held in a hybrid in-person and remote format this year, the eight Fellows gave final presentations on their summer research and submitted their […]
The 2021 Graduate Summer Fellows have reached the midpoint of the 10-week program at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Over the course of two days last week, the eight Fellows gave presentations on their research progress and next steps, receiving feedback from their peers, Pardee Center staff, and Pardee School Dean Adil Najam. The Fellows […]