The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce the Center’s Visiting Fellows for the 2015-16 academic year. While they hold positions at other organizations, the Visiting Fellows contribute to the intellectual life of the Pardee Center through scholarly collaborations and participation in the Center’s programs and events. This year’s […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2015-16 Faculty Research Fellows and Associates. With seed funding from the Pardee Center, the 10 Faculty Research Fellows will launch two- or three-year interdisciplinary research projects on topics ranging from the implications of China’s investments in other developing countries to […]
2014 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellow Lilly Havstad has won a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation research scholarship for foreigners to support continuing dissertation research in Portugal between September and December 2015. In September, Lilly will complete a year of fieldwork in Maputo, Mozambique where she has been collecting interviews, historical newspapers, and archival material for her dissertation […]
Less than three weeks remain in the 2015 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows session. Over the past month and a half, the Fellows have been researching and writing their papers while participating in discussions on a wide range of topics at lunches with several faculty members, including Prof. Anthony Janetos (Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study […]
The nine 2015 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows began their 10-week term on June 1 and they are already in full swing. The first week included orientation, a writing and research workshop with guest speaker Prof. Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, and a gathering at the BU Pub with Pardee Center […]
Irene Monasterolo has joined the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future as a post-doctoral associate. She is a development economist with experience in policy monitoring and evaluation; institutional capacity building; governance of evidence based sustainability policies; complex system thinking for modelling the resource-climate nexus; green fiscal and monetary policies for financing […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future announces its first annual call for proposals for Faculty Associates and Fellows for the 2015-16 academic year. Faculty Associates and Fellows are critical partners in making the Center’s core mission a reality. The Center’s main research focus can be generally described as solution-oriented […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce the 2015 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows. These nine outstanding Boston University graduate students represent various schools and departments from across the university, including Earth & Environment, Political Science, Public Health, Biology, Sociology, and Mathematics & Statistics. Starting June 1st, […]
Today the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) released a web-based prototype of climate indicators to track nationally-relevant climate change and the impacts of it over time. Prof. Anthony Janetos, Director of Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and Melissa Kenney, University of Maryland research assistant professor, guided the development […]
2011 Pardee Summer Graduate Fellow M. Chloe Mulderig has won a grant under the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program, which this year includes additional support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Mulderig is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University whose work focuses on youth, gender, piety, and the creation of […]