The 2017 Graduate Summer Fellows have reached the midpoint of the program at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and over the course of two days last week they presented their research progress to receive feedback from Pardee Center staff, post-docs, affiliated faculty, and their peers. On the first day of presentations, Jonathan […]
Les Kaufman, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Professor in the Department of Biology, recently published an article as part of a multi-part blog series exploring biodiversity in the world’s largest tropical lake, Lake Victoria, and the critical role the lake plays in providing […]
Michael Dietze, an associate professor of Earth & Environment, discussed concepts from his new book, Ecological Forecasting (Princeton University Press 2017), at a seminar hosted by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on June 21. In the book, Prof. Dietze presents “a new way of doing ecology,” bringing together the […]
On June 22, the Graduate Summer Fellows had a lunch discussion with Joseph Harris, an assistant professor of Sociology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Prof. Harris gave an overview of his research on the “social determinants of health” — such as class, […]
The founding Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Prof. David Fromkin, passed away on June 11, 2017 at age 84. A widely respected scholar and a prolific author, he served as the inaugural Director of the Pardee Center from 2000 through 2007. Obituaries were published in The […]
The Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows met with Faculty Research Fellow Kevin Gallagher over lunch on June 13. Prof. Gallagher talked about his research on international trade and investment agreements and global financial and environmental governance issues. He also discussed his career path from an undergraduate major in biology and political science to his current […]
An article by Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos that was published recently by The Conversation has been picked up by media outlets and websites around the world. Originally appearing in The Conversation on June 4, the article is about research conducted by Prof. Janetos and Pardee Center Post-Doctoral Associate John Connors that uses models to […]
Anthony Janetos, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, wrote an op-ed for The Conversation about the implications of President Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Prof. Janetos explained that the last several reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invites you to attend its upcoming seminar with Prof. Michael Dietze, an associate professor in the Department of Earth & Environment, where he will discuss his new book, “Ecological Forecasting” from Princeton University Press. The seminar will be held at the Pardee Center at […]
On the second day of the program, the Graduate Summer Fellows at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future participated in a writing and communications workshop led by Director Anthony Janetos and Associate Director Cynthia Barakatt. Janetos and Barakatt began with an overview of the structure and objective of the research paper that […]