Michael Dietze, a Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently hosted a Reddit AMA in which he discussed ecological forecasting and environmental conservation. As a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow from 2018-2021, Dietze led the formation […]
On September 29, the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future’s International History Institute (IHI) and the BU College of General Studies’ World Affairs Forum hosted a seminar titled “Afghanistan, the Forever Wars, and Military-Civilian Divides.” The seminar featured a talk by Jack Weinstein, Lieutenant General, USAF, (Ret) and Professor of the Practice […]
Pablo Suarez, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently participated in a Facebook Live webinar exploring how cartoons and humor can improve communication and problem-solving. The discussion was hosted by Bob Mankoff, former Cartoon Editor for The New Yorker. In recent years, Suarez and […]
On September 8, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted its annual fall reception. At the beginning of the reception, the Pardee Center’s 2021 Graduate Summer Fellows gave a series of lightning talks on the outcomes of their summer research. The posters from the lightning talks are available to […]
The Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs has updated its estimates of the total human and budgetary costs of the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere, estimating that 929,000 people have been directly killed, and that the United States has appropriated and is obligated to spend […]
Boston University’s International History Institute (IHI) has established an affiliation with the Pardee School of Global Studies’ Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, becoming a new research initiative of the Pardee Center. IHI was founded within BU’s College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) in 1999 to promote the importance of […]
Former Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow Nicholas Ray and Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Robinson (Wally) Fulweiler co-authored a new paper presenting a review of how we assess denitrification in oyster habitats. In recent years, oyster aquaculture has been recognized as a novel technique to remove excess nitrogen from coastal ecosystems. In this paper, published in the […]
Heidi Peltier, a Research Professor at Boston University’s Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, was recently interviewed by CBS News about the current and projected human and monetary costs of the war in Afghanistan. “We’ve spent more than $2.5 trillion just on Afghanistan so far, and a lot of the […]
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On August 6, the 2021 session of the Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows program came to an end, concluding the program’s thirteenth year. During the last week of the 10-week program, which was held in a hybrid in-person and remote format this year, the eight Fellows gave final presentations on their summer research and submitted their […]