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 […]
Prof. Suchi Gopal and Prof. Les Kaufman, Faculty Associates at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, co-authored a new paper on the application of big data science to improve food, energy, and water systems (FEWS) sustainability. In the paper, published in the journal Frontiers in Big Data, the authors present a […]
Kate Mitchell, a doctoral candidate at the BU School of Public Health and a 2019 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored an article on maternal newborn health (MNH) care delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic in the journal Health and Human Rights. In the article, the […]
Henrik Selin, a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has been appointed the new Associate Dean of Studies at the Pardee School of Global Studies. In this role, Prof. Selin will be responsible for all student affairs and services, including both the graduate and undergraduate programs at […]
Les Kaufman, a Professor in the Department of Biology and a Pardee Center Faculty Associate, and Eliza Garfield, a 2015 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow, are among the co-authors of a new analysis of coral reef restoration projects in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary published in the journal PLOS ONE. Since the 1970s, staghorn coral […]
Min Ye, an Associate Professor in the Pardee School of Global Studies and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has been appointed the first Rosenberg Institute Scholar at Suffolk University’s Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies. As part of the appointment, Prof. Ye will write a research […]
Kristin Sippl, a 2011 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a paper on the evolution and impacts of sustainability standards for gold as part of a special issue of the journal Ecological Economics. In the paper, Sippl examines transnational certification standards in the artisanal […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2020 Graduate Summer Fellows. These 10 outstanding Boston University graduate students represent five different schools or colleges and nine different academic departments. Starting May 26th, the Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks developing research papers to be considered for publication […]