Category: News

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 […]

Senior Postdoc Emily Klein Co-Authors Article on ‘Blue Growth’ in The Brink

Emily Klein, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored an article exploring historical examples of “blue growth”—a concept akin to the “green economy” that promotes sustainable ocean management—in The Brink. The article follows the publication of a major study in the journal Fish and Fisheries in […]

Graduate Summer Fellows Program Kicks Off With Orientation, Communications Workshop

This week, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future welcomed the 2020 Graduate Summer Fellows. Over the course of the next 10 weeks, the Fellows will develop research papers to be considered for the Pardee Center’s publication series while participating in remote programs designed to advance interdisciplinary research and learning. On the first […]

Visiting Research Fellow Pablo Suarez Facilitates COVID-19 ‘Cartoonathon’

Pablo Suarez, a Pardee Center Visiting Research Fellow and Associate Director for Research and Innovation at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, recently designed and facilitated a “cartoonathon” exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on the future of humanitarian work. The event, hosted by The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Solferino Academy, included over […]