Ziming Xuan, an Associate Professor in BU’s School of Public Health and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a talk exploring the role of alcohol consumed by men in influencing the risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) among married women in India. The […]
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the EPA have estimated that food production by itself accounts for nearly a quarter of all greenhouse emissions in the world. What we eat, where it comes from, and how food gets to the table impacts our world in more ways than we may think. Join […]
Joseph Harris, an assistant professor of Sociology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently published a new paper exploring healthcare reform in the developing world. The paper, published in the journal Sociological Forum, is titled “The Politics of Expanding Healthcare Access to the Poor and Informal Sectors” […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University has launched a new collaboration with the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University to expand the Costs of War project. The new “20 Years of War” research series is funded by a generous grant from the […]
On September 25, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Institute for Sustainable Energy (ISE) co-hosted a seminar titled “Rising Temperatures, Rising Costs: The Increasing Global Energy Needs that Come with a Changing Climate,” featuring Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Ian Sue Wing and ISE Associate Director […]
Les Kaufman, a Professor in the Department of Biology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored three related papers exploring fish food webs in systems undergoing rapid change: coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific, small lakes and reservoirs in Brazil, and large lakes […]
Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellows Prof. Les Kaufman (Department of Biology) and Prof. Michael Dietze (Department of Earth & Environment) were featured in a BU Today story about the Trump administration’s recently announced changes to the Endangered Species Act, which allows species to be reclassified from “endangered” to “threatened” far more easily. The changes will also […]
Last week, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a two-day workshop exploring the nitrogen removal capacity of oyster habitats via denitrification. The workshop, convened by Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Robinson W. (Wally) Fulweiler, brought together a group of about 30 experts to assess the current state of knowledge […]
Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Prof. James McCann and 2018 Graduate Summer Fellow Kristen Carey presented at the first Rocky Mountain Workshop on African History from August 9-11 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Carey, a PhD candidate in the Department of History, presented a paper titled “Bogeys and Misconceptions: The Formation and Portrayal of Tanzanian Population Policy: […]
Michael Dietze, an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently interviewed in Science about the Ecological Forecasting Initiative (EFI). Launched in 2018 with the help of a seed grant from the Pardee Center, EFI is […]