The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2020 Graduate Summer Fellows. These 10 outstanding Boston University graduate students represent five different schools or colleges and nine different academic departments. Starting May 26th, the Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks developing research papers to be considered for publication […]
The late Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future from 2013-2019, has been posthumously awarded the Ecological Society of America (ESA) 2020 Distinguished Service Citation. The Distinguished Service Citation “recognizes long and distinguished volunteer service to ESA, the scientific community, and the larger purpose of ecology in […]
This event has been postponed. Please stay tuned for information about a rescheduled date. The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invites you to attend its 2020 Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, April 13 from 4:00 – 5:30 pm at the Metcalf Trustee Center, 1 Silber Way. The annual Pardee Center […]
The application deadline has been extended to Monday, March 23 Download application instructions Applications are now being accepted for the 2020 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program, which offers graduate students from across Boston University an opportunity for intensive interdisciplinary research and writing on topics aligned with the future-focused research interests of BU’s Frederick S. Pardee […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce that it has established an affiliation with the Pardee School of Global Studies, becoming the School’s newest interdisciplinary research center. “Now in its 20th year, the Pardee Center has become a truly international destination for public policy scholarship and […]
On November 20, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a seminar exploring how the Pentagon thinks about its fuel use and climate change, featuring Neta C. Crawford, Professor and Chair of the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow. In her talk, titled […]
Laurence Delina, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently convened a pair of interdisciplinary workshops on the future of energy systems in developing countries. The first workshop, which was held November 1-2 at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, focused on China’s rapidly expanding investments in energy […]
On November 13, the Pardee Center hosted a seminar featuring Adel Daoud, a Docent/Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and a Bell Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he explored the impacts of IMF programs on child poverty in low- and middle-income countries using a […]
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 […]
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 […]