Min Ye, an Associate Professor in the Pardee School of Global Studies and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has been appointed the first Rosenberg Institute Scholar at Suffolk University’s Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies. As part of the appointment, Prof. Ye will write a research […]
Kristin Sippl, a 2011 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a paper on the evolution and impacts of sustainability standards for gold as part of a special issue of the journal Ecological Economics. In the paper, Sippl examines transnational certification standards in the artisanal […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2020 Graduate Summer Fellows. These 10 outstanding Boston University graduate students represent five different schools or colleges and nine different academic departments. Starting May 26th, the Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks developing research papers to be considered for publication […]
Adriana Craciun, Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair of Humanities and Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has been awarded a Henderson Senior Research Fellowship by the Boston University Center for the Humanities (BUCH). Named after Jeffrey Henderson, former Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences (CAS), the […]
Muhammad Zaman, a professor of Biomedical Engineering and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently awarded a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship. Awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Fellowship recognizes individuals who have “demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability […]
Qi Zhang, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently published two papers on the mangrove ecosystems in India’s Sundarbans Biosphere Region (SBR), a biodiversity hotspot that is acutely susceptible to the impacts of climate change. The region makes up nearly 3 percent of the Earth’s total area […]
Emily Klein, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored a paper on historical lessons for the future implementation of “blue growth” strategies, a concept that aims to promote growth in ocean economies while managing marine systems. The paper, titled “Something old, something new: Historical […]
The late Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future from 2013-2019, has been posthumously awarded the Ecological Society of America (ESA) 2020 Distinguished Service Citation. The Distinguished Service Citation “recognizes long and distinguished volunteer service to ESA, the scientific community, and the larger purpose of ecology in […]
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 Hill comparing the coronavirus response to fighting a war. In the article, titled “Fighting a virus with the wrong tools,” Prof. Crawford and Prof. Catherine Lutz, co-founders and co-directors of […]
WATCH ON YOUTUBE On April 1, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Center for the Study of Asia hosted a livestreamed seminar titled “Coronavirus and the Future of Infectious Disease.” The seminar featured a panel discussion including Nahid Bhadelia (Associate Professor, Medicine/Infectious Diseases, BU School of […]