The Pardee Center is hosting a visiting scholar, Ulrike Heine, from Germany in September 2010. Ulrike Heine is a student from Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen and a PhD-candidate at the Research Group on the topic “Transnational Media Events from Early Modern Times to the Present” funded by the German Research Foundation. While at the Pardee Center, Ulrike will […]
Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Les Kaufman has been selected as the recipient of the 2011 Parker/Gentry Award in Conservation Biology presented by The Field Museum of Chicago. The award, presented annually since 1996, honors an individual, team or organization “whose efforts have had a significant impact on preserving the world’s natural heritage and whose actions […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently named four Boston University faculty members as Pardee Center Faculty Fellows. Prof. Carlos Blanco from the Department of International Relations, Prof. Les Kaufman from the Department of Biology, Prof. David Scott Palmer from the Departments of International Relations and Political Science, and […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University has published a new paper (No. 14) in The Pardee Papers series. Africa’s Technology Futures: Three Scenarios was written by 2008-2009 Pardee Visiting Graduate Fellow Dirk Swart. This paper uses a scenario planning approach to explore two questions about Sub-Saharan […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University has published a new paper in its Sustainable Development Insights series that calls for new emphasis on accountability and implementation in global environmental governance (GEG). “Rio +20: Accountability and Implementation as Key Goals” was written by former Pardee Center Director […]
Boston University Prof. James McCann, a well-known scholar on the history of the food, ecology and agriculture of Africa, has been appointed Director, ad interim of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future as of August 15. He takes over from Prof. Adil Najam, who recently returned to his native […]
Pardee Center Post-Doctoral Fellow Miquel Muñoz was interviewed by National Public Radio for a story broadcast on August 9 on the solar energy industry and green jobs in Spain. A native of Spain, Dr. Muñoz is an expert on renewable energy on a global scale. His research at the Pardee Center focuses on renewable energy […]
Robert M. Hollister, a Professor in the Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences, will be in residence at Pardee House for the 2011-2012 academic year as a Visiting Faculty Fellow of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study for the Longer-Range Future at Boston University. As a Pardee Visiting Faculty Fellow, Prof. Hollister […]
Pardee Center Post-Doctoral Fellow Miquel Muñoz is the guest co-editor (with Sikina Jinnah of American University) of the August 2011 special issue of the journal Global Environmental Politics. The issue, titled “Climate Bandwagoning: The Impacts of Strategic Linkages for Regime Design, Maintenance and Death,” covers a range of topics that are subject to the international […]
The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future concluded its 10-week 2011 Graduate Summer Fellows Program on Friday, August 5. The 2011 class of Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows included graduate students from the BU departments of Political Science (2), Religion (1), International Relations/Geography & Environment (1), Anthropology (1), […]