The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future welcomed the Boston University 2012-2013 Humphrey Fellows to Pardee House on Aug. 29 during their orientation week. The mid-career scholars met with Pardee Center Director ad interim Prof. James McCann and Associate Director Cynthia Barakatt to learn about Center’s programs and activities. The […]
Research Fellows Pablo Suarez and Janot Mendler de Suarez are continuing to work on material related to the Games for a New Climate Task Force Meeting and Gaming Session organized by the Pardee Center in March, 2012. The following two videos are filmed and produced by PopTech and sponsored by Rockefeller Foundation and the Nike Foundation […]
The 2012 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows completed the program today with their research paper deadline. The seven Boston University graduate students were in residence at the Pardee Center this summer to work on intensive research projects. During the program, they received support from and participated in programs involving Pardee Faculty Fellows and staff. Their papers […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin P. Gallagher gave several presentations in South America in July related to his research on the economic ties between China and Latin America, as well as his work on the Pardee Task Force Report on Regulating Global Capital Flows for Long-Run Development. On July 17 he gave a presentation titled “China […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin met with the Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows on August 2 to talk about his work in international environmental politics. He discussed his perspectives on future of global environmental governance programs after the United Nations “Rio + 20” meeting in June, and his research on international governance programs covering toxic chemicals […]
The Pardee Director ad interim James McCann was invited to talk about the national drought on Vocalo.org 89.5 FM, in Chicago, on Tuesday July 24, 2012. Prof. McCann compared the drought to other regions in the world, and to other times of drought in American History. “What happens is really a result of how humans […]
Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Muhammad Zaman, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at BU, met with the Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows on July 17. He discussed his educational and professional background as well as his current work designing an affordable tool that tests for counterfeit drugs for which has recently been nominated for a […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin and 2011 Pardee Summer Fellow Kristin Sippl attended the fourth session of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC4) to prepare a global legally binding instrument on mercury. The meeting was held June 27-July 2 in Punta del Este, Uruguay. The Pardee Center’s official observer status for the negotiations enabled the pair […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has appointed Janot Mendler de Suarez as a Visiting Research Fellow for the next two years. Mendler de Suarez’s expertise is in environmental policy and governance, especially marine policy, and her most recent work has been in the development of experiential games for […]
Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Anne Short, Assistant Professor of Geography and Environment at BU, met with the Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows on June 27. She discussed her research on environmental policy and governance programs across various scales, from global to local.