The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently hosted a panel discussion convened by Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Joseph Harris reflecting on the Symposium on Global Health & the Social Sciences, an effort he led to bring together nearly 30 leading anthropologists, political scientists, and sociologists to contribute to evolving […]
Michael Dietze, an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently gave a Distinguished Lecture hosted by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences. In the lecture, Prof. Dietze discusses the challenges and opportunities in near-term ecological forecasting, an emerging interdisciplinary research area spanning environmental […]
Jim Stodder, a Visiting Professor in BU’s Metropolitan College and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently worked as a consultant on the Rec, a newly launched electronic “social currency” sponsored by the European Union and the City Council of Barcelona. Barcelona’s Rec (Real Economy Currency) is […]
NOTE: Due to demand, the location has been changed to CAS 132 at 725 Commonwealth Avenue The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invites Boston University graduate students interested in applying for our 2019 Graduate Summer Fellows program to an information session at CAS 132, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, on Tuesday, […]
Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Michael Dietze has launched the Ecological Forecasting Initiative website. The Initiative is “a grassroots consortium aimed at building and supporting an interdisciplinary community of practice around near-term (daily to decadal) ecological forecasts.” The website is a major component of Prof. Dietze’s work as a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, […]
Pardee Center post-doctoral associate Kira Sullivan-Wiley and Faculty Associate Prof. Anne Short Gianotti recently co-authored a paper on agricultural management in eastern Uganda in the journal Land Use Policy. The paper, titled “Pursuing productivity gains and risk reduction in a multi-hazard landscape: A case study from eastern Uganda,” explores the co-beneficial role that agricultural land […]
Henrik Selin, an associate professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored an article on mercury pollution in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. In the article, titled “A Critical Time for Mercury Science to Inform […]
Air pollution is a global problem that harms the lives of millions of people. The Initiative on Cities, the Department of Environmental Health, and the Pardee Center welcome to campus Iyad Kheirbek, Head of Air Quality for C40 Cities, where he will discuss urban air quality initiatives in two settings: New York City and C40 […]
John Patrick Connors (an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Texas A&M University and a former Pardee Center post-doctoral associate) and Anne Short Gianotti (an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Pardee Center Faculty Associate) were recently awarded a $375,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to support their […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University is pleased to welcome Kira Sullivan-Wiley as a post-doctoral associate. Sullivan-Wiley, who was a Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow in 2015, is a behavioral geographer using tools from the spatial and social sciences to better understand human-environment relationships. She uses […]