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Faculty Research Fellow Jeffrey Geddes Presents Research on Global Air Quality at GEOS-Chem Conference
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 Soil Reactive Nitrogen Emissions." Highlighting land model simulations by BU Earth & Environment graduate student Anthony Wong, this presentation summarized... More
Graduate Summer Fellows Arrive at Pardee Center
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 research papers to be considered for the Pardee Center’s publication series while participating in programs designed to advance interdisciplinary research and... More
New Paper: “The Economic, Political, and Social Context of Maternity Leave in the United States”
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 numbers of women in the workforce and adapting paid leave laws accordingly. In this Pardee Paper, Hannah Sherseth analyzes the... More
Pardee Center Announces 2022 Graduate Summer Fellows
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 as part of the Pardee Center’s publication series. In addition, Summer Fellows will participate in programs designed to advance interdisciplinary research... More
Faculty Research Fellow Ashley Mears Promoted to Full Professor
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 was one of 20 Charles River Campus faculty members promoted to full professor. "The faculty members we recognize today…are pushing their... More