Joshua Duclos, a former Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, authored a new book titled Wilderness, Morality, and Value. In the book, Duclos explores the morality of wilderness preservation given the inherent suffering of wildlife, and argues that “the technological and ethical reality of the […]
This week, the 2022 Graduate Summer Fellows gave presentations on their ongoing research projects at the midpoint of the 10-week program at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. The eight Fellows presented their research progress to date and next steps, receiving feedback from their peers, Pardee Center staff, and affiliated faculty. The Fellows will […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future community mourns the loss of Frederick S. Pardee, the founder and benefactor of the Pardee Center and the Pardee School of Global Studies, who passed away in Los Angeles on June 27, 2022 at the age of 90. Fred Pardee was a Boston […]
Jeffrey Geddes, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently presented research at the International GEOS-Chem Conference (IGC10) held at Washington University in St Louis. At the conference, Geddes shared preliminary work in a poster titled, “Impact of Global Climate and Land Use Change on […]
This week, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future welcomes the 15th cohort of the Graduate Summer Fellows program to the Center. This year’s session includes BU graduate students representing five different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments. Over the course of the next 10 weeks, the Fellows will write […]
As American female labor force participation and educational attainment has grown over the past seven decades, laws supporting women with children have not kept pace with changes in workforce demographics, particularly in the form of paid maternity leave. Relative to its economic counterparts, the United States has shown a significant delay in addressing the increasing […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2022 Graduate Summer Fellows. These eight outstanding Boston University graduate students represent five different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments. Starting May 31, the Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks developing research papers to be considered for publication […]
Ashley Mears, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has been promoted to the rank of full professor of sociology. Prof. Mears specializes in gender studies and economic sociology, focusing on the intersection of culture and markets and the commoditization of beauty and glamor. She […]
Pablo Suarez, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored a series of eight humanitarian insights derived from the Working Group II’s contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report, which looks at ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global […]
Joseph Harris, an Associate Professor of Sociology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and Jon Shaffer, a former Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow, recently co-authored a paper comparing the contributions of four major social science disciplines — anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology […]