Heidi Peltier, a Research Professor at the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently gave a talk exploring U.S. military spending in the context of other national priorities. In the talk, Prof. Peltier drew on her recent research for the Costs of War project to compare U.S. military spending […]
Michael Dietze, Robinson (Wally) Fulweiler, and Lucy Hutyra, Faculty Research Fellows at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, have been promoted to the rank of full Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment. As a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, Prof. Dietze leads the Ecological Forecasting Initiative (EFI), […]
Heidi Peltier, a Research Professor at the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently participated in a webinar in which she was interviewed on military spending, employment, and contracting for CODEPINK, a grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars. In the conversation, facilitated by CODEPINK co-director Carley Towne, Prof. […]
Neta C. Crawford, Professor and Chair of the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently authored a new paper for The Costs of War project detailing the dramatic increase in civilian casualties in Afghanistan since the United States military relaxed its rules of engagement for airstrikes in the country […]
Former Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow Nicholas Ray and Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Robinson (Wally) Fulweiler co-authored a new paper exploring the impacts of oysters on coastal biogeochemistry. In the paper, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, the authors used a meta-analysis approach to assess how oyster reef restoration and oyster aquaculture development is changing coastal […]
Neta C. Crawford, Professor and Chair of the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently co-authored a new article for The Conversation exploring how the Biden administration will impact the future of racism, the Supreme Court, and foreign policy. In the article, Prof. Crawford specifically addresses the future of foreign […]
Catherine West, a Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored a paper exploring the size of cod in the North Pacific over the past several thousand years. The paper, published in the journal Quaternary Research, […]
The Ecological Forecasting Initiative’s Research Coordination Network (EFI-RCN) has announced the launch of the inaugural NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network) Ecological Forecast Challenge. The challenge asks participants to make predictions about ecological processes using NEON data prior to its release. The challenge spans five themes: aquatic ecosystems, terrestrial carbon and water fluxes, tick populations, phenology, […]
In Conjunction with the Stanley P. Stone Distinguished Lecture Series, the BU College of General Studies, the Workable World Trust, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning From October 28-30, 2020, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies hosted a symposium […]
Heidi Peltier, a Research Professor at the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently gave a talk exploring the impacts of post-9/11 military spending. In the talk, Prof. Peltier drew on her recent research for the Costs of War project to illustrate the scale of post-9/11 U.S. military spending […]