The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce the Center’s Visiting Fellows for the 2015-16 academic year. While they hold positions at other organizations, the Visiting Fellows contribute to the intellectual life of the Pardee Center through scholarly collaborations and participation in the Center’s programs and events. This year’s […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2015-16 Faculty Research Fellows and Associates. With seed funding from the Pardee Center, the 10 Faculty Research Fellows will launch two- or three-year interdisciplinary research projects on topics ranging from the implications of China’s investments in other developing countries to […]
Visiting Research Fellow Pablo Suarez was one of several co-authors of a paper titled “Ensuring climate information guides long-term development” published in the September 2015 issue of the journal Nature Climate Change. The paper addresses the failure of many sub-Saharan African countries to include climate information in long-term development decision-making. The region, which faces significant climate adaptation challenges […]
2014 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellow Lilly Havstad has won a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation research scholarship for foreigners to support continuing dissertation research in Portugal between September and December 2015. In September, Lilly will complete a year of fieldwork in Maputo, Mozambique where she has been collecting interviews, historical newspapers, and archival material for her dissertation […]
Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, participated in a session called “The Debate: How Do We Respond to Climate Change” at the 2015 American Chemical Society’s (ACS) National Meeting and Exposition on Tuesday, August 18. Prof. Janetos was joined by the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Peter […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted Kei Koizumi, Assistant Director of Federal Research and Development at the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP), for a lunch discussion with the Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows on Tuesday, July 28. Koizumi, a Boston University graduate, spoke at length about the role of the OSTP […]
Less than three weeks remain in the 2015 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows session. Over the past month and a half, the Fellows have been researching and writing their papers while participating in discussions on a wide range of topics at lunches with several faculty members, including Prof. Anthony Janetos (Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study […]
John Patrick Casellas Connors has joined the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future as a post-doctoral associate. He is a geographer specializing in the study of social-ecological systems, focused primarily on issues of food system sustainability and processes of land cover change. His research has examined an array of issues related […]
Laurence L. Delina has joined the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future as a post-doctoral associate. Delina is also an Earth System Governance Research Fellow and a Research Associate at the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His work explores governance and institutional arrangements in […]
The nine 2015 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows began their 10-week term on June 1 and they are already in full swing. The first week included orientation, a writing and research workshop with guest speaker Prof. Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, and a gathering at the BU Pub with Pardee Center […]