Category: 2020

Faculty Research Fellow Ziming Xuan Awarded Developmental Study on Alcoholism and HIV in India

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 […]

Postdoc Qi Zhang Co-Authors Two New Papers on Forest Ecosystems in India

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) […]

Senior Postdoc Emily Klein Co-Chairs ICES Meeting on Long-Term Change in Fisheries Science & Policy

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 […]

Graduate Summer Fellows Meet with Affiliated Faculty Neta Crawford, Kevin Gallagher, and Felice Amato

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 […]

Faculty Research Fellow Heidi Peltier Authors Op-Ed Quantifying Jobs Potential of Conservation Funding

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 […]

Summer Fellow Christine Marsico Co-Authors BU Today Op-Ed on Immigration-Based Harassment in Schools

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 […]

Faculty Research Fellow Neta Crawford Co-Authors Op-Ed on Impact of Defense Spending on COVID-19 Preparedness

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, […]

Graduate Summer Fellows Participate in Session on Using Humor to Communicate About the Future

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 […]