Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Michael Dietze has launched the Ecological Forecasting Initiative website. The Initiative is “a grassroots consortium aimed at building and supporting an interdisciplinary community of practice around near-term (daily to decadal) ecological forecasts.” The website is a major component of Prof. Dietze’s work as a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2018-19 Faculty Research Fellows. With seed funding from the Pardee Center, the 12 new Faculty Research Fellows will launch two- or three-year interdisciplinary research projects, joining five other ongoing projects and three completed projects. Over the course of their projects, the […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Institute for Health System Innovation & Policy hosted a seminar on September 25 with Joseph Harris, an Assistant Professor of Sociology and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, where he discussed his recent book, Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of […]
Prof. Les Kaufman, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and his graduate student Katey Lesneski recently began a long-term field project monitoring the health, regeneration, and restoration of coral reef habitats in South Florida’s Biscayne Bay. Boston University is leading a team providing science […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce the publication of a new conference report stemming from its Symposium on Global Health and the Social Sciences, a two-day gathering of nearly 30 leading political scientists, anthropologists, and sociologists on November 9 and 10, 2017. The symposium, which was convened […]
Joseph Harris, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently elected to serve on the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Sociology of Development Section Council. The ASA Sociology of Development Section promotes theoretical and applied work on the […]
Prof. Kevin Gallagher, Director of the Global Development Policy Center and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored an article exploring the need to integrate climate change considerations into economic policy, specifically international trade agreements. The article, titled “Assessing the Climate Impacts of […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future announces a call for proposals for Faculty Research Fellows, Faculty Associates, and Sabbatical Leave Scholars for the 2018-19 academic year. Faculty Fellows, Associates, and Sabbatical Scholars are critical partners in achieving the Center’s core mission of developing and disseminating interdisciplinary, policy-relevant research on […]
Les Kaufman, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Professor in the Department of Biology, co-authored a recent paper on the value of marine environmental stewardship in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. The paper, titled “Stranded capital: environmental stewardship is part of […]
Richard Primack, a professor of biology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored an article titled “Spring Budburst in a Changing Climate” in American Scientist. In the article, Prof. Primack explains his 15-year effort to use Henry David Thoreau’s unpublished 1850s field notes to compare the […]