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Preston and Zaman Speak on Panel on Forced Displacement Crisis
Carrie Preston and Muhammad Zaman, Faculty Research Fellows at the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and co-founders of the new University-wide Center on Forced Displacement (CFD), recently participated in a panel discussion on forced displacement. The event, which was hosted by Boston University Global Programs as part of its 2022 International Education Week, featured an interdisciplinary panel of BU experts exploring the growing crisis of forced displacement, its drivers, and potential... More
Graduate Summer Fellows Program Alum Ateeb Gul Presents Research on Child Marriage in Pakistan
Ateeb Gul, a 2022 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow and a PhD candidate in Religion at Boston University, recently presented a paper at a symposium at the University of Oslo's Norwegian Centre for Human Rights. The paper, titled "Child Marriage Legislation in Pakistan: Religious (Counter)Narratives and the Politics of Law," is the result of Gul's recent research as a Graduate Summer Fellow in which he explored how the age of ‘A’isha bint Abi Bakr at the time of her... More
Graduate Summer Fellows Program Alum Noor Toraif Featured in BU Today on Creation of New Course on Structural Racism
Noor Toraif, a 2021 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow and a PhD candidate at BU's School of Social Work, was recently featured in a BU Today article for her work creating a new free online course for understanding structural racism. Led by Dawn Belkin Martinez, a School of Social Work Clinical Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion, the self-paced non-credit course, titled Understanding Structural & Institutional Racism, seeks to give social workers and other health and... More
Faculty Research Fellow Jeffrey Geddes Gives Distinguished Lecture at University of Toronto Centre for Global Change Science
Jeffrey Geddes, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently presented gave a Distinguished Lecture at the University of Toronto Centre for Global Change Science (CGCS) seminar series. Prof. Geddes's talk, titled "Contemporary and Future Changes to Biosphere-Atmosphere-Chemistry Interactions," explored the role of the terrestrial biosphere as an important global source and sink of short-lived trace gases that contribute to atmospheric reactivity, and discussed challenges... More
Former Graduate Summer Fellow John Okechi Authors Paper on Environmental Health of Lake Victoria
John Okechi, a 2020 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow, recently co-authored a paper exploring the ecological health of Lake Victoria resulting from the rapid growth of cage aquaculture in recent years. About 45 million people depend on Lake Victoria directly and indirectly for their food, economic livelihoods, transportation, and more. To offset the effects of climate change and overfishing, cage aquaculture of Nile tilapia was recently introduced to meet food security needs. In the paper, published in... More