Ziming Xuan, an Associate Professor in BU’s School of Public Health and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently awarded a developmental study to explore associations between alcohol use and HIV among married couples in India. Given rising rates of alcohol consumption and HIV […]
Qi Zhang, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored two papers on mangrove conservation and on the impacts of forest fires on ecosystem productivity in India. In the first paper, published in the journal Integrated Environment Assessment and Management, the authors identified conservation priority zones (CPZs) […]
Emily Klein, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-chaired the annual meeting for the International Council for Exploration of the Seas Working Group on the History of Fish and Fisheries (ICES WGHIST). Klein has co-chaired the WGHIST for the past six years with Ruth […]
During the past two weeks, the Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows have had virtual lunch discussions with Faculty Research Fellow Neta Crawford and Faculty Associates Kevin Gallagher and Felice Amato. On June 15, Prof. Crawford discussed the Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, which she co-founded in 2010 […]
Heidi Peltier, a Research Professor at the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, authored an op-ed for The Conversation exploring the economic opportunities presented by conservation of—as opposed to expanded oil and gas development on—public lands. Using an input-output model, Prof. Peltier shows that each $1 million of spending […]
Christine Marsico, a 2020 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow and a PhD candidate at BU’s Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, recently co-authored an op-ed in BU Today on the impacts of xenophobic rhetoric and immigration-based harassment on stress and anxiety levels in schools. Research shows that harassment based on immigration status has been increasing in recent years. Marsico’s […]
Neta C. Crawford, Professor and Chair of the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently co-authored an op-ed in The Boston Globe arguing for decreased funding for the military and increased investment in public health programs and infectious disease research. In the article, Prof. Crawford and Prof. Catherine Lutz, […]
On June 6, Pardee School of Global Studies Dean Adil Najam gave a guest lecture for a class at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) structured around the Pardee Center’s ongoing “The World After Coronavirus” video series. The series, consisting of more than 50 interviews with leading experts and practitioners from across the world, explores […]
Over the past two weeks, the Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows have had virtual lunch discussions with Prof. Muhammad H. Zaman and Prof. Lucy Hutyra, and participated in an interactive “cartoonathon” with Visiting Research Fellows Pablo Suarez and Janot Mendler de Suarez exploring the use of humor to better communicate about the future. On June 3, Prof. Zaman, a Pardee […]
Sam Deese, a Senior Lecturer in the College of General Studies and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, authored a recent op-ed on the democratization of global governance for Democracy Without Borders. Drawing on ideas from his 2018 book titled Climate Change and the […]