Jeffrey Geddes, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently presented research at the International GEOS-Chem Conference (IGC10) held at Washington University in St Louis. At the conference, Geddes shared preliminary work in a poster titled, “Impact of Global Climate and Land Use Change on […]
This week, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future welcomes the 15th cohort of the Graduate Summer Fellows program to the Center. This year’s session includes BU graduate students representing five different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments. Over the course of the next 10 weeks, the Fellows will write […]
As American female labor force participation and educational attainment has grown over the past seven decades, laws supporting women with children have not kept pace with changes in workforce demographics, particularly in the form of paid maternity leave. Relative to its economic counterparts, the United States has shown a significant delay in addressing the increasing […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2022 Graduate Summer Fellows. These eight outstanding Boston University graduate students represent five different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments. Starting May 31, the Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks developing research papers to be considered for publication […]
Ashley Mears, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has been promoted to the rank of full professor of sociology. Prof. Mears specializes in gender studies and economic sociology, focusing on the intersection of culture and markets and the commoditization of beauty and glamor. She […]
Pablo Suarez, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored a series of eight humanitarian insights derived from the Working Group II’s contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report, which looks at ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global […]
Joseph Harris, an Associate Professor of Sociology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and Jon Shaffer, a former Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow, recently co-authored a paper comparing the contributions of four major social science disciplines — anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology […]
Joseph Harris, an Associate Professor of Sociology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently elected Vice Chair of the International Studies Association’s (ISA) Global Health Studies Section. The ISA’s Global Health Studies Section “aims to make the ISA the global hub for […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2022 Faculty Research Fellows. With seed funding from the Pardee Center, the nine new Faculty Research Fellows will launch one- or two-year interdisciplinary research projects. The projects were selected by an interdisciplinary committee of Pardee Center-affiliated faculty. Over the course […]
Les Kaufman, a Professor in the Department of Biology and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, co-authored a major new paper exploring the costs and benefits of primary pandemic prevention actions. The authors of the paper, which was published in the journal Science Advances, included environmental and […]