On February 26, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the College of Arts & Sciences, and the Center for the Humanities hosted an all-day, interdisciplinary symposium exploring the future of the Arctic. The event, titled “Arctic Worlds: A Symposium on the Environment and Humanities,” took place at Barristers Hall at the […]
Muhammad Zaman, a professor of Biomedical Engineering and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, is the author of a new book, titled Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens, published by Harper Wave. The book explores the rise of antibiotic resistance, which leads […]
Michael Dietze, an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a talk at the Center for Geospatial Analytics at NC State University. In his talk, titled “Forecasting Ecology in a Changing World,” Prof. […]
On February 11, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a seminar titled “The Future of China’s Foreign Relations.” The seminar featured a panel discussion including Jorge Heine (Research Professor, Pardee School of Global Studies), Min Ye (Associate Professor, Pardee School), Joseph Fewsmith (Professor, Pardee School), and Adil Najam (Dean, Pardee School). […]
Neta C. Crawford, Professor and Chair of the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently authored an article for The Conversation on the $2 trillion dollar cost of the Iraq War to date. Included in the ongoing costs are nearly $200 billion for medical care and disability compensation for Iraq War […]
The application deadline has been extended to Monday, March 23 Download application instructions Applications are now being accepted for the 2020 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program, which offers graduate students from across Boston University an opportunity for intensive interdisciplinary research and writing on topics aligned with the future-focused research interests of BU’s Frederick S. Pardee […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce that it has established an affiliation with the Pardee School of Global Studies, becoming the School’s newest interdisciplinary research center. “Now in its 20th year, the Pardee Center has become a truly international destination for public policy scholarship and […]
Radost Stanimirova, a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth & Environment and a 2016 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a paper titled “Sensitivity of Global Pasturelands to Climate Variation” published in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) journal Earth’s Future. Pastures are the most […]
Bryan Patenaude, a 2013 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently made the 2020 Forbes “30 Under 30” List in the healthcare category. Patenaude is a healthcare economist specializing in disease intervention, with a particular focus on HIV/AIDS. He currently leads a project that seeks […]
Emily Klein, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, edits a quarterly newsletter, the Oceans Past News, which released its most recent edition this month. The Oceans Past News aspires to unite and inform the global community interested in long-term and historical perspectives of marine social-ecological […]