Category: 2013

Pardee Center to Host Oct. 17 Info Session on Science Policy Fellowships

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will host an informational meeting about science and technology policy fellowships offered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to recent PhDs as well as mid-career scientists and engineers. The meeting will take place on Wednesday, Oct.17 at 4:30 pm […]

Pardee Research Fellow Writes on the Oceans Influence on Climate Change

  Pardee Center Visiting Research Fellow Janot Mendler de Suarez is one of four authors of a piece titled, “Ensuring survival: Oceans, climate and security” for Ocean & Coastal Management. The authors discuss the ocean and its vital role in the global carbon cycle, affecting food security and livelihoods for billions of people. The importance […]

New Task Force Report on Remittance Flows to Post-Conflict States

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future in collaboration with the Boston University Center for Finance, Law & Policy has published a new Pardee Center Task Force Report titled “Remittance Flows to Post-Conflict States: Perspectives on Human Security and Development.” The Report is the outcome of an interdisciplinary Task Force […]

Pardee House Seminar on the Future of Biogas Set for October 31

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is collaborating with the Boston University Sustainable Neighborhood Laboratory to present a seminar on Thursday, Oct. 31 titled “Biogas: A Landing Pad for Natural Gas?”  It will take place at Pardee House, 67 Bay State from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Prof. Nathan Phillips […]

Pardee Center Hosts Visitors from Singapore Prime Minister’s Office

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a meeting on Oct. 2 with staff who work on programs related to futures strategies and planning in the Public Service Division of the Office of the Prime Minister of Singapore. The visitors included Chin Lum Kwa, Head of the Centre for […]

Henrik Selin Quoted in Science about New International Mercury Treaty

Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin was quoted in the September 27 issue of Science magazine about the new Minamata Convention on Mercury to be finalized in Japan this week.  The article titled “With Pact’s Completion, The Real Work Begins,” is part of the journal’s special coverage on the treaty and mercury’s impact on the […]

Kevin Gallagher Presents at Financial Reform Conference in Brazil

Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Kevin P. Gallagher presented a paper on September 26 at the Hyman Minsky conference on “Global Financial Reform: Five Years After the Crisis,” held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Prof. Gallagher’s talk was titled “Regulating Capital Flows: Is the ‘System’ Working?” and was based on two Pardee Task Force Reports on […]

Oct. 10 Talk to Launch New Task Force Report on Remittances

The Pardee Center and Boston University’s Center for Finance, Law & Policy are co-sponsoring a talk by the head of the central bank of Bangladesh on Thursday, Oct. 10 to mark the release of the new Pardee Center Task Force Report titled Remittance Flows to Post-Conflict States: Perspectives on Human Security and Development.  The talk […]

Pardee Center Publishes “Issues in Brief” on New Mercury Treaty

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published a new paper in the Issues in Brief series. “The Minamata Convention and the Future of Mercury Abatement” was written by Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin, an expert on global environmental governance issues who has been closely following the negotiations leading […]

2013 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellow Wins Fulbright-Hays Grant

2013 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellow Benjamin Twagira has won a research grant from the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program, administered by the U.S. Department of Education. Twagira, a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Boston University, conducts research on the history of cities in Africa. The award will fund his field research […]