Last week, the seven 2019 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows submitted initial drafts of their research papers. Over the past month, the Fellows have had lunch discussions with Faculty Research Fellows Prof. Wendy Heiger-Bernays (Environmental Health), Prof. Lucy Hutyra (Earth and Environment), and Prof. Les Kaufman (Biology), as well as Jennifer Weeks, the Environment and Energy […]
Nicholas Ray, a PhD candidate in the Department of Biology and a 2019 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow, is the first author of a recent paper exploring oysters’ denitrification ability. In the paper, published in Marine Ecology Progress Series (MEPS), Ray and his co-authors demonstrate that the oyster digestive system can remove significant amounts of […]
Laurence Delina, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a 139-page commissioned white paper on China-Philippine cooperation on climate change action, of which Oxfam has published a 15-page summary. In the white paper, Delina makes the case for cooperation between government agencies and civil […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published a new paper in its Issues in Brief series. The paper, titled “Demography is not Destiny: The Faulty Link Between Population and Development,” was written by Kristen Carey, a PhD candidate in the department of history and a 2018 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow. […]
Over the past two weeks, the 2019 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows have had lunch discussions with Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Kevin Gallagher (Pardee School of Global Studies and Director of the Global Development Policy Center) and Faculty Associate Prof. Felice Amato (School of Visual Arts). On June 26, as they reached the midpoint of the […]
Emily Klein, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, co-chaired the International Council for Exploration of the Seas Working Group on the History of Fish and Fisheries (ICES WGHIST) annual meeting at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom last week. The ICES WGHIST […]
Suchi Gopal, a Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a talk on spatial analytics in public health at a symposium hosted by the World-Wide Human Geography Data (WWHGD) Working Group and the Center […]
A new paper published today in Nature Communications by researchers from Boston University, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice found that by mid-century climate change will increase the demand for energy globally, even with modest warming. Most previous studies explored this topic for a single country […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published a new paper in its Issues in Brief series. The paper, titled “The Informal Sector and Universal Health Coverage: Crucial Considerations,” was written by Lawrence Were, a Pardee Center Faculty Associate and an Assistant Professor in both BU’s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences […]
Over the course of the past two weeks, the Graduate Summer Fellows at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future have had a lunch discussion with Center Director Prof. Anthony Janetos, attended a reception with program alumni, and participated in an interactive game session designed to improve decision-making about the […]