GDP Center Hosts Panel Discussion in Washington, DC
Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm 1777 F Street NW, 1st Floor, Washington, DC 20006 President Robert A. Brown and Provost Jean Morrison hosted a panel discussion organized by the BU Global Development Policy Center and BU Federal Relations in Washington, D.C. on April 18. Center Director Kevin Gallagher moderated a conversation with […]
Former UN Secretary-General Kicks Off BU Think Tank
Ban Ki-moon encourages students to think globally Ban Ki-moon, eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations, gave the keynote speech kicking off the opening of BU’s new Global Development Policy Center. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Former secretary-general of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon told a standing-room only crowd at BU’s Metcalf Trustee Center on Wednesday that […]
Telling the Truth about Rwanda
Pardee professor speaks today about his new book on country’s recovery Timothy Longman with youth from Kabarondo, a village in the Eastern Province of Rwanda, in 2006. Photo courtesy of Timothy Longman. Timothy Longman doesn’t go back to Rwanda anymore. Too much of his work has displeased the regime. “I don’t feel safe to go,” says […]
BU Trustees Approve Aggressive Climate Action Plan
Effort prepares University for global temperature rise The BU Climate Action Plan adopted by the BU Board of Trustees recommends new building efficiencies, changes to renewable energy sources, and ways to make climate change a bigger part of the University’s curriculum and research. Illustration by Rubén D. Cerón Guevara (MET’19) and BU Metropolitan College Professor […]
Trump’s Top Intelligence Advisor Visits BU
Dan Coats speaks to Pardee School of Global Studies students and faculty Daniel Coats, director of national intelligence (standing), spoke with students and faculty at BU’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies on September 29. Photos by Jackie Ricciardi. The man responsible for briefing President Donald Trump daily on national and global security issues […]
BU’s Peter Berger Remembered as Outstanding Sociologist
Scholar who did landmark research into religion and development dies at 88 Peter Berger, a CAS professor emeritus who did pathbreaking sociological research into religion and the developing world, died June 27. Photo courtesy of Pardee School of Global Studies. New York Times conservative columnist David Brooks once confessed his debt to BU sociologist Peter Berger, “whose […]
US-Russian Relations Under the Microscope
Pardee expert: Trump-Putin connection unnerves allies President Donald Trump has been criticized for his rosy assessment of Russian President Vladimir Putin, but his administration’s contacts with that nation have been problematic so far. Trump photo by Flickr contributor Gage Skidmore; Putin photo by the Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images. Robert G. Loftis knows diplomacy after three decades in […]
Taking Stock of the New President’s Foreign Policy Proposals
BU experts predict “a ride like we… have never seen before” Rex Tillerson, Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, has close ties with Russia, which concerns both senators who must confirm him and some BU foreign affairs scholars. Photo by Olivier Douliery/ABACA (Sipa via AP Images). rom vowing to pull out of last year’s United […]
Bucking Trends, BU Outside Funding Continues to Rise
Team behind the scenes keeps the money coming in Amy Lieberman, an SED assistant professor of deaf studies, says BU “made it clear that my research was going to be valued and supported here. It’s a big part of the reason I came.” Photo by Cydney Scott. The chart of United States R&D funding, as […]
Terrorism Expert Joins Pardee School of Global Studies
Jessica Stern on how ISIS works and what we can do to stop it Terrorism expert Jessica Stern, who has joined the Pardee School faculty, inspired Nicole Kidman’s character in The Peacemaker. Photo courtesy of Jessica Stern. Working with a military intelligence officer, a future BU professor hunted for terrorists who’d stolen a nuclear bomb, […]