Author: Elaine Teng

Pardee Center Hosts Scholar from the German Advisory Council on Global Change

The Pardee Center is hosting a visiting scholar, Bernd Sommer, from Germany in May 2010. Bernd Sommer is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen, Germany, and Research Analyst to the German Advisory Council on Global Change, which advises the Federal Government on climate change and other […]

Experts Discuss Distal Determinants of Public Health

Experts from a variety of disciplines met at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on April 30, 2010, to discuss the current best practice modalities for preventing and treating a host of communicable and non-communicable diseases and what explains variation in the implementation of the bio-medical knowledge. The workshop […]

Smart Global Health Policy Report Launched at Boston University

The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Smart Global Health Policy, Boston University, and Harvard University, hosted a conference on the future of global health featuring Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Congressman Michael Capuano (D-MA), Boston University President Robert Brown, as well as top academics, industry leaders and student activists from the Boston […]

Pardee Center Announces 2010 Summer Fellows

Six graduate students from across Boston University have been named Pardee Summer Graduate Fellows for 2010. They will spend the summer conducting research at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and participate in a cross-disciplinary program of research on longer-range challenges related to human well-being. Selected from a pool […]

Pardee Center Publishes Two New Publications for Africa 2060

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future released two new publications in  March and May 2010 respectively as part of the Africa 2060 research program. The first is an issue brief on Envisioning Africa’s Future: A Story of Changing Perceptions by Pardee Post-Doctoral Fellow, Julius Gatune Kariuki, and the second […]

Register for Pardee Conference on “Good News From Africa”, April 16, 2010

(A news report of the conference is available here). Registration is now open for the 2010 Pardee Center Conference on “Africa 2060: Good News from Africa” to be held on Friday, April 16, 2010. The all-day conference will feature four panels (on Social Development, on Markets and Economy, on Politics and Institutions, and on Society and […]

Climate Talks Attendees Discuss Life After Copenhagen

Sustainability@BU and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future co-hosted a panel discussion on Monday, April 5, 2010,  to offer an inside look at the roads leading to and from Copenhagen, featuring Boston University faculty and students who attended the UN Climate Change Conference. Speakers from the Pardee Center included […]

Pardee Center to Hold Workshop on the Distal Determinants of Public Health

Experts from a variety of disciplines will meet at Boston University on April 29 – 30, 2010, to discuss the current best practice modalities for preventing and treating a host of communicable and non-communicable diseases and what explains variation in the implementation of the bio-medical knowledge. The workshop is sponsored by The Clinton Global Initiative […]

Experts Discuss Future Challenges in Dealing with Disasters

On Tuesday, March 30, 2010, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held a lunch seminar on ‘Future Challenges: Dealing with Disasters’. Part of the ‘Pardee House Seminars’ series, the event featured Dr. Pablo Suarez, Prof. Anuradha Mukherji , and Prof. Enrique R. Silva, and was moderated by Prof. Adil […]