Year: 2012

Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows Attend Orientation

The Pardee Center hosted the 2012 Pardee Summer Fellows for a special orientation session Monday, May 14, 2012. The Graduate Summer Fellows will be working at the Pardee Center for ten weeks. Each of the eight students will write a research paper that will be considered for publication in one of the Center’s publication series. […]

Faculty Fellow Muhammad Zaman Talks Teacher Evaluations on WBUR

Pardee Faculty Fellow Muhammad Zaman was interviewed on WBUR’s Here and Now program with Robin Young on May 3, 2012 about his innovative use of teaching evaluation in his courses. Prof. Zaman collects student evaluations frequently. He says the feed back helps shape the course. To listen to the full interview click here. WBUR is […]

Pardee Center Publishes Issues in Brief on the Indian Economy and Liberalization

Post-doctoral Fellow Suranjana Nabar-Bhaduri is the author of the Frederick S. Pardee Center’s 23rd Issues in Brief, Free Trade and Inclusive Development: Lessons from the Indian Experience. In the piece, Dr. Nabar-Bhaduri uses the experience of India as a basis to argue that despite encouragement from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to open […]

Prof. Nathan Phillips Joins Pardee Center as Newest Faculty Fellow

Prof. Nathan Phillips, Associate Professor of Geography & Environment at Boston University,  joins the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future as a Faculty Fellow. His research focuses on physiological mechanisms that regulate water, carbon, and energy exchanges between plants/ecosystems and the environment, especially in the context of environmental change.  More […]

Pardee Center Announces the 2012 Graduate Summer Fellows

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future selected seven outstanding Boston University graduate students as its 2012 Graduate Summer Fellows. The departments they represent include Biology, Economics, Geography and Environment, International Relations, Mechanical Engineering, Social Work, and Theology. Starting June 4, they will spend 10 weeks based at Pardee House […]

Faculty Fellow Suchi Gopal Discusses New Pardee Center Research Report

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on April 25 hosted a discussion led by Pardee Faculty Fellow Sucharita Gopal about the methods and findings of a recent Pardee Center Research Report titled Connecting the Dots: Information Visualization and Text Analysis of the Search Project Newsletters. Prof. Gopal co-authored the […]

Pardee Podcast: Food in the City: Issues on the Horizon

Note: This podcast may not be visible on certain web browsers. “Food and the City: Issues on the Horizon” was the panel organized by The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at the Food and the City Conference in February 2012, sponsored by the Boston University History Department. Pardee Center […]

Faculty Fellow Presents Pardee Center Task Force Report at Brookings Institution

Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Kevin P. Gallagher was a presenter at a special discussion about the Pardee Center Task Force Report Regulating Global Capital Flows for Long-Run Development hosted by the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. on April 19. Prof. Gallagher was on a panel with his Pardee Center Task Force co-chairs Stephany Griffith-Jones and […]

Experts Discuss Pardee Task Force Report on Capital Controls at Pardee House Seminar

Watch this video on YouTube Approximately 100 Boston university students, faculty, and other guests attended the Pardee Seminar held on March 8 that introduced the new Pardee Center Task Force Report titled Regulating Global Capital Flows for Long-Run Development. The seminar was organized by Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher, co-chair of the Task Force that […]

Director ad interim James McCann Receives Guggenheim Award

Professor James McCann, the Director ad interim for the The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study into the Longer-Range Future has been selected for a Guggenheim Fellowship to write about his five years of research studying malaria in Africa. “What the Guggenheim allows me to do is to use my sabbatical leave to write […]