Air pollution is a global problem that harms the lives of millions of people. The Initiative on Cities, the Department of Environmental Health, and the Pardee Center welcome to campus Iyad Kheirbek, Head of Air Quality for C40 Cities, where he will discuss urban air quality initiatives in two settings: New York City and C40 […]
John Patrick Connors (an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Texas A&M University and a former Pardee Center post-doctoral associate) and Anne Short Gianotti (an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Pardee Center Faculty Associate) were recently awarded a $375,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to support their […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University is pleased to welcome Kira Sullivan-Wiley as a post-doctoral associate. Sullivan-Wiley, who was a Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow in 2015, is a behavioral geographer using tools from the spatial and social sciences to better understand human-environment relationships. She uses […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2018-19 Faculty Research Fellows. With seed funding from the Pardee Center, the 12 new Faculty Research Fellows will launch two- or three-year interdisciplinary research projects, joining five other ongoing projects and three completed projects. Over the course of their projects, the […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Institute for Health System Innovation & Policy hosted a seminar on September 25 with Joseph Harris, an Assistant Professor of Sociology and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, where he discussed his recent book, Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of […]
Chukwuemeka Umeh, a postdoctoral associate at the School of Public Health and a 2016 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently published a paper titled “Challenges toward achieving universal health coverage in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania” in The International Journal of Health Planning and Management. […]
Pablo Suarez, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently hosted an original, interactive game session focused on art for risk communication at the National University of Singapore Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk (NUS-LRFI). Suarez, who was recently appointed Artist-in-Residence at […]
The 2018 Graduate Summer Fellows had their final faculty lunch discussion of the program on July 25 when they met with Prof. Henrik Selin, a Pardee Center Faculty Associate and an associate professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies. Prof. Selin gave an overview of his career path, stressing the valuable role that interdisciplinary study played […]
On July 19, the Pardee Center’s Graduate Summer Fellows, staff, and a group of affiliated faculty had a lunch discussion with Ari Fertig, the University Relations Manager at The Conversation, a non-profit online publication featuring articles written by academics and intended for the general public. Fertig gave an overview of The Conversation, which has editions in Australia, […]
Prof. Les Kaufman, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and his graduate student Katey Lesneski recently began a long-term field project monitoring the health, regeneration, and restoration of coral reef habitats in South Florida’s Biscayne Bay. Boston University is leading a team providing science […]