Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Dr. Muhammad Zaman wrote an op-ed on a grounds-up approach to tackling disease for the Huffington Post today. His piece is a reaction to the January 30th declaration made in London by Bill Gates, WHO, and a number of major pharmaceutical companies to eradicate ten diseases afflicting the world’s poor in […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is the lead organizer of the closing panel at the Food and the City Conference on February 24 and 25 sponsored by the Boston University History Department. The conference will take place at the BU Photonics Center, 8 St. Mary’s Street. Pardee Center […]
2012 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program Application deadline: Friday, March 16, 2012 The Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows Program offers graduate students from across Boston University an opportunity for intensive interdisciplinary research and writing on topics aligned with the broad research interests of BU’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published a report of the Center’s 2011 conference Development That Works. The day-long conference took place on March 31, 2011 and was organized in collaboration with the BU Global Development program. The Pardee Center Conference Report features essays written by Boston University […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center welcomes two new additions. Dr. Anne Short is Assistant Professor of Geography and Environment at Boston University. Paul McManus is Executive-in-Residence at the School of Management at Boston University. Dr. Short conducts research and teaches classes on human-environment relations, environmental governance, and sustainable development. She is the author of articles […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future held the first Pardee House Seminar of the year on January 24, 2012 on ‘Future Roles of Universities Worldwide: Moving Beyond the Ivory Tower? The seminar was organized and moderated by Pardee Visiting Faculty Fellow Rob Hollister (Dept. of Urban and Environmental Policy […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher has an op-ed featured in the Financial Times today. In the piece, ‘Capital controls are not beggar they neighbor,’ Dr. Gallagher examines the effect countries with capital controls have on nearby nations. The countries concerned are faced with unstable capital flows in the wake of the financial crisis. Many of […]
Alejandro Avenburg, a 2011 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has been selected to present his paper, “Corruption, Accountability, and Citizen Participation in Protests in Latin America,” at the 2012 Midwest Political Science Association Conference in Chicago next April. Avenburg’s paper is based on research he […]
On Thursday, December 15, 2011, Dr. William R. Jobin delivered the annual Pardee Distinguished Lecture sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at the Boston University. Students and faculty from BU and elsewhere filled the room for the lecture, which was held at BU’s Hillel House. Dr. Jobin […]
Dr. Miquel Munoz, post-doctoral fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center For the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was invited as a keynote speaker to discuss system-wide strategies and frameworks at an event on International Environmental Governance organized by the Nordic Council of Ministers. The event, held at the International Peace Institute in New York, in the […]