Photo by Jake Belcher Boston University recently awarded the third annual Anthony Janetos Climate Action Prize to Carly Golden (Molecular & Translational Medicine, CAMED ’27) for her research, in collaboration with Dr. Angie Serrano, Saylor Williams (Serrano Lab Manager), and Greg Miller (CReM Lab Manager), which aims to reduce plastic waste and energy consumption in […]
Boston University has awarded the second annual Anthony Janetos Climate Action Prize to Olivia Henning (Environmental Analysis and Policy, CAS ’22) and Lucia Vilallonga (Statistics and Computer Science, CAS ’22) for their research on quantifying BU employee air travel emissions. The Prize, which includes a financial gift to the winners, is awarded annually to the […]
John Patrick Casellas Connors, an Assistant Professor of Geography at Texas A&M University and a Pardee Center post-doctoral associate from 2015-2018, is the lead author of a chapter in a new book titled Extreme Events and Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Approach. The chapter, titled “Agricultural Losses in a Telecoupled World,” was posthumously co-authored by Prof. […]
Boston University recently awarded the inaugural Anthony Janetos Climate Action Prize to Gayatri Sundar Rajan (Mechanical Engineering, ENG ’22) and Keeley Bombard (Earth & Environment, CAS ’22) for their outstanding contributions to sustainability efforts at BU. The Prize, which includes a financial gift to the winners, is awarded annually to the student or team of […]
Boston University has launched the Anthony Janetos Climate Action Prize in honor of the late Prof. Tony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future from 2013-2019. This recognition will be awarded annually each spring to the student or team of students involved in a project through BU’s […]
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) hosted a virtual session at its 2020 Annual Meeting honoring the work of the late Prof. Tony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future from 2013 until his death in 2019. The session, titled “A Research Agenda for Tackling Global Change: The […]
The late Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future from 2013-2019, has been posthumously awarded the Ecological Society of America (ESA) 2020 Distinguished Service Citation. The Distinguished Service Citation “recognizes long and distinguished volunteer service to ESA, the scientific community, and the larger purpose of ecology in […]
The late Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future from 2013-2019, wrote an essay titled “Why is climate adaptation so important? What are the needs for additional research?” that was posthumously published in the journal Climatic Change. In the essay, Prof. Janetos presented a general framework for climate adaptation […]
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recently launched “How We Respond: Communities and Scientists Taking Action on Climate Change,” which brings together stories highlighting the ways that 18 communities across the U.S. are responding to climate change. Pardee Center Director Prof. Anthony Janetos, who passed away last month, served for a year and a […]
The Boston University community, and especially the staff of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, deeply feels the loss of Director Anthony Janetos, who died of pancreatic cancer in early August. A well-known leader in the global climate change community, Tony came to BU and the Pardee Center in […]