The 2014 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows presented their research on a broad variety of topics from sustainable livestock management to the use of remote sensing in mapping urbanization in China. The presentations on July 1st and 2nd marked the half-way point of this year’s Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellowships, a 10-week program designed to give […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Muhammad Zaman was named this week as 1 of 15 educators from across the United States to receive the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Professorship. The position confers a five year, $1 million grant to be used to advance science learning at undergraduate institutions, and recognizes innovative approaches to teaching that […]
2011 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellow Kristin Sippl was the subject of a June 23rd BU Today article titled “Quicksilver for Quick Gold”, which highlights her research into the use of mercury in artisinal and small-scale gold extraction. Through her work, Sippl aims to provide miners with the information necessary to remain safe when dealing with […]
Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos was a featured speaker at the opening Plenary Session of MIT’s Climate Change Symposium on Sustaining Coastal Cities on June 16. The three-day conference, organized by the MIT Sea Grant College Program, seeks to address concerns over climate-driven sea level rise, storm surges, extreme precipitation, and flooding and looks at […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow and Boston University Professor Les Kaufman was featured in two articles published this week in The New York Times and Virginia Quarterly Review. The articles, titled “Of Fish, Monsoons, and the Future” and “The Giving Flood” address the challenges of sustainable development in the Tonle Sap Lake region of Cambodia, an area currently […]
Past Pardee Graduate Summer Fellow Margaret Hendrick (2013) was recently awarded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s STAR Fellowship, a competitive research grant given annually to outstanding students in the field of environmental science. Hendrick, a doctoral candidate in Boston University’s Earth & Environment Department, works alongside Pardee Faculty Fellow Nathan Phillips on the problem of […]
Seven graduate students from across Boston University began research projects this week at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. The students are the 2014 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows and will spend 10 weeks conducting interdisciplinary research that covers a diverse range of issues including food security, renewable energy, access […]
Pardee Director Anthony Janetos was quoted in a May 7th article in Bloomberg BNA titled “US Issues Loudest, Clearest ‘Alarm Bell’ on Climate Change to Date, Advisers Say”. Prof. Janetos was one of several prominent climate change scientists interviewed by Bloomberg BNA after the release of the third National Climate Assessment Report, a Congressionally-mandated report […]
Rosina Bierbaum, Chair of the Scientific and Advisory Panel of the Global Environmental Facility and Professor at the University of Michigan, delivered a compelling talk titled “Past is Not Prologue: How Climate Change Alters Development Prospects” at the annual Frederick S. Pardee Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday April 30th, 2014. Prof. Bierbaum discussed the serious implications […]
Members of the new Pardee Center Task Force on Higher Education and Innovation presented their research to a diverse audience of scholars, students, and development practitioners at a day-long conference on April 24 at Boston University. The event was co-sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston […]