The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2018 Graduate Summer Fellows. These 10 outstanding Boston University graduate students represent six different BU schools/colleges: Arts & Sciences, Social Work, the Pardee School, and for the first time in the program’s history, Metropolitan, Communication, and Sargent. Starting May 29th, the Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University invites applications for three Post-Doctoral Research Fellow appointments starting in the fall of 2018, each for a full-time, two-year term. The Pardee Center is searching for young scientists with strong quantitative skills, and a demonstrated interest in applying them to challenges […]
John Patrick Casellas Connors, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment, recently gave a talk titled “The Lively Politics of Deer Management in the Suburbs” at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers. Connors’ talk explored […]
Moeed Yusuf, a former Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a new book on nuclear crisis management in South Asia. The book, titled Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: U.S. Crisis Management in South Asia (Stanford University Press), proposes an original theory of brokered bargaining to better understand […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invites you to participate in a Facebook Live event on the state of global climate change research and policy options, and how cities, states, and private organizations are stepping up in the Trump era. The event, titled “Climate Change: Challenges & Opportunities,” is co-hosted by […]
Laurence Delina, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored a paper on the nexus of extreme weather events and social conflict in the Philippines for the Journal of Peacebuilding & Development. The paper, co-authored by Rufa Cagoco-Guiam, a retired professor of at Mindanao State […]
Pardee Center Visiting Scholar Jianguo Liu, Associate Professor at Peking University, recently participated in a public meeting of the Science Advisory Board (SAB) to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Toxics Use Reduction Act program. Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Wendy Heiger-Bernays is a member of the SAB. Prof. Liu is an expert on environmentally sound management […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently hosted a talk by Frank Davis, a professor at UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, exploring the interplay between projected future solar energy development and conservation efforts in California’s western Mojave Desert. Prof. Davis began by providing an overview of current trends in solar energy […]
Diana Liverman, a leading expert on the human dimensions of global environmental change and the impacts of climate on society, reflected on her several decades of work on climate vulnerability and adaptation when she delivered the 2018 Pardee Center Distinguished Lecture at the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering (CILSE) on April 6. The event was […]
The Boston University Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience & Environmental Health invites you to attend its Spring Symposium on April 25 from 2:30-4:30 pm in BRB 113, 5 Cummington Mall. The Symposium will feature a series of lightning talks (see below) by BU faculty on a wide range of urban research themes in water, air, climate, […]