Category: 2016

Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows Give Midpoint Presentations

The 2016 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows have reached the midpoint of the session at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Last week, the Fellows presented their ongoing research progress to Pardee Center staff, post-docs, and affiliated faculty to receive feedback at the midpoint of the fellowship. On the first day of presentations, Radost […]

Margaret Hendrick Hired as Post-Doctoral Associate at ISE

Margaret Hendrick, a 2013 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has accepted a post-doctoral associate position with the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy (ISE) beginning in Fall 2016. The ISE is a university-wide institute, administered by the Questrom School of Business, that assists and promotes faculty research, […]

Laurence Delina Publishes Paper on the Climate Action Movement

Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored an article on the climate change action movement published in the journal Interface. The article, titled “Strengthening the climate action movement: strategies from contemporary social action campaigns,” argues that climate activism must be bolstered in order to accelerate the transition to a […]

Pardee Center to Host Special Lecture on Affordable and Just Energy Access

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will host a special lecture titled “New Paradigms for Delivering Affordable and Just Energy Access: Insights from the Social Sciences” with Prof. Benjamin Sovacool on Thursday, July 14 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm at the Metcalf Trustee Center. Prof. Sovacool will discuss how small-scale […]

Janetos to Chair NSF Advisory Committee on Environmental R&E

Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos has been appointed chair of the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education (AC ERE) starting October 1. As chair, Prof. Janetos will lead the 16-member interdisciplinary group of senior scientists from universities and other institutions who oversee NSF’s support for environmental research and education programs on […]

Pardee Center Post-Doc Authors Book on Rapid Climate Change Mitigation

Laurence Delina, Post-Doctoral Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, is the author of a new book released on June 14 by Routledge Press. Titled Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation, the book explores whether the rapid mobilization among countries in preparation for World War II is an appropriate […]

Pardee Center Director Talks About Cities and Climate Change on WBUR

Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos was interviewed during a live segment on National Public Radio affiliate WBUR on June 9 about the leading role cities are playing in adopting measures to address the impacts of climate change. Prof. Janetos was interviewed on the Morning Edition program in relation to the announcement this week that in […]

Call For Proposals: 2016-17 Faculty Research Fellows and Associates

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future announces its annual call for proposals for Faculty Research Fellows and Associates for the 2016-17 academic year. Faculty Research Fellows and Associates are critical partners in achieving the Center’s core mission of developing and disseminating interdisciplinary, policy-relevant research on topics of global significance. […]

Elisabetta Genovese Joins Pardee Center as Visiting Scholar

Elisabetta Genovese has joined the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on a three-week appointment as a Visiting Scholar. Elisabetta is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth (IRCrES) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), where she is currently working on the project “Economics of Natural […]