Tag: Faculty Associates

Faculty Associate Adriana Craciun Awarded BUCH Henderson Senior Research Fellowship

Adriana Craciun, Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair of Humanities and Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has been awarded a Henderson Senior Research Fellowship by the Boston University Center for the Humanities (BUCH). Named after Jeffrey Henderson, former Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences (CAS), the […]

Faculty Associate Muhammad Zaman Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

Muhammad Zaman, a professor of Biomedical Engineering and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently awarded a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship. Awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Fellowship recognizes individuals who have “demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability […]

Faculty Associate Lawrence Were Publishes Paper on Impact of Social Health Insurance on HIV+ Pregnant Women in Kenya

Lawrence Were, a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and an Assistant Professor in both the Department of Health Sciences at Sargent College and in the Department of Global Health at the School of Public Health, recently authored an article titled “Effects of social health insurance on access and […]

Faculty Associate Henrik Selin Authors Article on U.S. Withdrawal from Paris Agreement for The Conversation

Henrik Selin, an Associate Professor in the Pardee School of Global Studies and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a piece for The Conversation reacting to the Trump administration’s formal notification to the United Nations that the U.S. would withdraw the Paris Agreement on […]

Experts Discuss Implications of the Informal Economy on Development, the Environment, and Health at Pardee Center Seminar

On October 17, the Pardee Center hosted a seminar titled “The Informal Economy: Implications for Development, the Environment, and Health.” The seminar featured Pardee Center Faculty Associate Lawrence Were (BU School of Public Health & Sargent College); Hwa-Young Lee (Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health); Afreen Siddiqi (MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics […]

Faculty Associate Muhammad Zaman Launches New Initiative on Forced Displacement

Muhammad H. Zaman, a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and a Pardee Center Faculty Associate, is the founder of a new university-wide initiative on forced displacement. The Initiative for Interdisciplinary Approaches to Forced Displacement (IIAFD) at Boston University will foster interdisciplinary collaborations among faculty, staff, and students in the emerging field of refugee studies. Through teaching, research, […]

Faculty Associate Henrik Selin Launches NSF project on Mercury in Small-Scale Mining

Henrik Selin, an Associate Professor in the Pardee School of Global Studies and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore the environmental and human health risks from mercury pollution in artisanal and small-scale gold […]

New Paper: “The Informal Sector and Universal Health Coverage: Crucial Considerations”

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published a new paper in its Issues in Brief series. The paper, titled “The Informal Sector and Universal Health Coverage: Crucial Considerations,” was written by Lawrence Were, a Pardee Center Faculty Associate and an Assistant Professor in both BU’s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences […]