Ariana Gunderson, a 2018 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow, recently won the Award For Excellence in Graduate Study for the Metropolitan College (MET) Gastronomy program. The award is presented each year during commencement to one student in each of MET’s 16 academic departments who “has exceptional academic records; has either made an outstanding contribution to […]
The Global Development Policy Center and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently co-hosted a seminar titled “A Climate Risk Assessment of Sovereign Bonds’ Portfolio,” featuring Irene Monasterolo of Vienna University of Economics and Business. Monasterolo, a Pardee Center post-doctoral associate from 2015-2017, is a development economist with experience in policy […]
Randi Rotjan, a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology, recently gave a talk at the request of the Fijian Ambassador on the scientific success of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), one of the world’s largest […]
Abaas Yunas, a 2018 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow, was awarded the 2019 Eilts Award for best graduate thesis at the Pardee School of Global Studies convocation ceremony on Saturday, May 18. The Amb. Hermann Frederick Eilts Thesis Awards are given annually to the best undergraduate and graduate theses written by Pardee School students. The award “recognizes […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future co-sponsored the 2019 Ecological Forecasting Initiative (EFI) Conference in Washington, DC, this week. The three-day conference, co-convened by Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Michael Dietze, brought together an interdisciplinary group of over 100 natural and social scientists, public health professionals, engineers, and […]
Qi Zhang, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently published a paper exploring an approach to detect expanding impervious surfaces, such as rooftops, roads, and sidewalks, in Nanchang, China. The paper, titled “An efficient approach to capture continuous impervious surface dynamics using spatial-temporal rules and dense Landsat time series […]
Prof. Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor and Chair of the Department of Earth & Environment, was featured on WGBH’s Greater Boston where he discussed a recently released United Nations assessment report on the global state of biodiversity. The report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy […]
Robinson (Wally) Fulweiler, an Associate Professor of Biology (jointly with Earth & Environment) and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently announced as the recipient of the 2019 Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching, the University’s highest teaching honor. The Metcalf Cup and […]
Laurence Delina, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored his fourth book, titled Emancipatory Climate Actions: Strategies from histories. The book, published by Palgrave Macmillan, offers strategies for strengthening climate change activism based on the mechanisms that made previous large-scale social movements successful. […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2019 Graduate Summer Fellows. These seven outstanding Boston University graduate students represent six different academic departments. Starting May 28th, the Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks at the Pardee House developing research papers to be considered for publication as part of […]