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Applications Now Being Accepted for 2025 Graduate Summer Fellows Program
Application Deadline: Tuesday, March 25 Download full application instructions Applications are now being accepted for the 2025 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program, which offers graduate students from across Boston University an opportunity for intensive interdisciplinary research and writing on topics aligned with the future-focused research interests of BU’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. The Pardee Center conducts future-oriented, interdisciplinary, and policy-relevant research that can contribute to long-term improvements in the human condition. More
Pardee Center Co-Hosts Webinar Titled “Greening the Arctic”
“Arctic greening” describes the alarming increase of vegetation around the Northern world, which accelerates global warming and permafrost thaw. But greening in the Arctic also inspires economic, political, and imaginative innovation among local and Indigenous Arctic peoples, who are “experts of change,” as Mininnguaq Kleist (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Greenland) affirmed at the Arctic Circle Assembly of 2023. “Greening” thus means different things to different people. For social scientists, it is a deliberate introduction of plants... More
Pardee Center Completes Fall 2024 Global Health Politics Workshop Speaker Series
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently concluded the fifth semester of its Global Health Politics Workshop (GHPW) speaker series. The four-part Fall 2024 series included talks about the unprecedented influence on global public health wielded by the Gates Foundation; the links between state investment in public health and health service provision in Malawi; the challenges of rural precarity and health governance among immigrants in the US; and the... More
Pardee Center Hosts Teacher Workshop on Deep-Sea Science and Conservation
On November 7, 2024, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a workshop for local K-12 teachers sponsored by the Crustal Ocean Biosphere Research Accelerator (COBRA). COBRA is an NSF-funded international network-of-networks focused on the structure, function, resilience, and ecosystem services of the crustal ocean biosphere to inform decision-making for emergent human uses of the deep sea, such as deep-sea mining and subseafloor carbon sequestration. There are five COBRA... More
Faculty Associate Adriana Craciun Authors Article on Svalbard Global Seed Vault for The Conversation
Adriana Craciun, Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair of Humanities and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored an article exploring controversies surrounding the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway — "the world’s most famous backup site for seeds." In the article, Prof. Craciun explains that the Global Seed Vault is home to several hundred million seeds from 80 countries that are stored in metallic pouches at... More