Pardee Faculty Fellow and Boston University Professor Les Kaufman was featured in two articles published this week in The New York Times and Virginia Quarterly Review. The articles, titled “Of Fish, Monsoons, and the Future” and “The Giving Flood” address the challenges of sustainable development in the Tonle Sap Lake region of Cambodia, an area currently […]
Past Pardee Graduate Summer Fellow Margaret Hendrick (2013) was recently awarded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s STAR Fellowship, a competitive research grant given annually to outstanding students in the field of environmental science. Hendrick, a doctoral candidate in Boston University’s Earth & Environment Department, works alongside Pardee Faculty Fellow Nathan Phillips on the problem of […]
Seven graduate students from across Boston University began research projects this week at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. The students are the 2014 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows and will spend 10 weeks conducting interdisciplinary research that covers a diverse range of issues including food security, renewable energy, access […]
Pardee Director Anthony Janetos was quoted in a May 7th article in Bloomberg BNA titled “US Issues Loudest, Clearest ‘Alarm Bell’ on Climate Change to Date, Advisers Say”. Prof. Janetos was one of several prominent climate change scientists interviewed by Bloomberg BNA after the release of the third National Climate Assessment Report, a Congressionally-mandated report […]
Rosina Bierbaum, Chair of the Scientific and Advisory Panel of the Global Environmental Facility and Professor at the University of Michigan, delivered a compelling talk titled “Past is Not Prologue: How Climate Change Alters Development Prospects” at the annual Frederick S. Pardee Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday April 30th, 2014. Prof. Bierbaum discussed the serious implications […]
Members of the new Pardee Center Task Force on Higher Education and Innovation presented their research to a diverse audience of scholars, students, and development practitioners at a day-long conference on April 24 at Boston University. The event was co-sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce the 2014 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows. These seven outstanding Boston University graduate students represent various schools and departments from across the university, including Earth & Environment, History, International Relations, Public Health, and Political Science. Starting May 27th, the Graduate […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, in cooperation with the Center for the Study of Asia and the East Asian Studies program at Boston University, cosponsored an April 16th talk titled “Indian Americans: The Life and Work of a New Immigrant Community”. The event, part of BU’s India-China Comparative […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the Latin American Studies Program and the Initiative on Cities at Boston University cosponsored an event on April 9th on “Latin American Urban Experiences: Crisis, Creativity, and Renewal”. The conference, organized by Pardee Faculty Fellows Susan Eckstein and Enrique Silva, featured faculty and student […]
Former Pardee Center Director Adil Najam has been named inaugural Dean of the new Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. The school, which is set to open in the fall of 2014, brings together existing area studies programs and the International Relations department within the College of Arts and Sciences. Professor […]