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, […]
On June 6, Pardee School of Global Studies Dean Adil Najam gave a guest lecture for a class at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) structured around the Pardee Center’s ongoing “The World After Coronavirus” video series. The series, consisting of more than 50 interviews with leading experts and practitioners from across the world, explores […]
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 […]
Sam Deese, a Senior Lecturer in the College of General Studies and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, authored a recent op-ed on the democratization of global governance for Democracy Without Borders. Drawing on ideas from his 2018 book titled Climate Change and the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Qi Zhang, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has been awarded a Microsoft AI for Earth grant as principal investigator to support his research on monitoring the dynamics of cropping cycles using long-term satellite imagery. Increasing the frequency of crop harvests can be a climate-friendly means of […]
Ian Sue Wing, a Faculty Associate and, from 2015-2018, 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 in the Department of Earth & Environment. Prof. Sue Wing was one of 19 Charles River Campus faculty promoted to full professor. […]
Richard Primack, a professor of biology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored an article published in The Conversation on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the ability to conduct field work. In the article, Prof. Primack reflects on the necessary yet costly measures […]