Dr. Alexandra Crampton, a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future was featured in Anthropology News, discussing her experience in navigating a joint doctoral program in Social Work and Anthropology. Alexandra Crampton’s research at the Pardee Center focusses on issues related to global trends […]
Technology has been proclaimed as the “major driver of development.” Yet, to effectively and practically realize the vast potential of technologic advances certain obstacles must be addressed. On November 3rd, 2008, three leading experts from three different fields gathered at the Pardee House to discuss the variety of interdisciplinary challenges facing the long-range future of […]
Examining the challenges and opportunities to improve public health systems in India offers lessons for public health issues on a global scale, according to a panel of experts who spoke at the Pardee House Seminar on June 11. The seminar – titled Leadership for Public Health and Development – featured panelists including Dr. V.I. Mathan […]
Professor Simon A. Levin, the Moffett Professor of Biology at Princeton University and the Director of Princeton’s Center for BioComplexity, today delivered his second of two 2008 Frederick S. Pardee Distinguished Lectures at Boston University this week. Professor Levin is on campus all week as a guest of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the […]
Pardee Center Research Fellow Moeed Yusuf’s research paper on “Prospects of Youth Radicalization in Pakistan: Implications for U.S. Policy” has just been published by the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution. [PDF Download] Moeed Yusuf argues that Pakistan exhibits symptoms that point to high potential for youth radicalization. The situation is marked by a poor […]
Dr. Nirmal Ganguly, The Boston Univeristy Global Health Initiative’s 2008 Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Global Health visited the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future to meet the Director and Fellows at the Center and lead a discussion on future challenges in global health and development. he was accompanied by Prof. […]
Dr. Miquel Munoz, post-doc fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future, gave a guest lecture at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies on 11 November. The lecture, addressed to graduate students, focussed on Global Environmental Governance (GEG) and the GEG reform debate. Dr. Munoz focussed some […]
Dr. Pablo Suarez, Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has recently published two papers on what climate-related disasters can and will mean for poor communities. The first paper is titled "Climate-Related Disasters: Humanitarian Challenges and Reconstruction Opportunities" and is authored by Pablo Suarez along with […]
Moeed Yusuf, Graduate Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future participated in a simulation exercise designed to gauge the potential for future tensions, and perhaps conflict, between India and Pakistan. The event was held in Washington, D.C. on November 6-7, 2008. The workshop brought together renowned Pakistani, […]
The next Pardee House Seminar will be held on Monday, November 3, 2008 at the Pardee House (67 Bay State Road, Boston, MA), on “Future Challenges: Technology and Development.” The lunch seminar will feature Ahmed Hashmi (Vice President, Group Research and Technology, BP, UK), Prof. Dilip Mookherjee (Department of Economics, Boston University), and Dr. Ashley […]