The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invites you to attend its upcoming seminar, “Pathways to a Natural Gas Off-Ramp: The Economic Case for an Energy Transition,” at the Pardee Center, 67 Bay State Road, on Thursday, February 1 from 12:00 – 1:30 pm (lunch will be available beginning at […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently welcomed Prof. Jianguo Liu as a Visiting Scholar and Prof. Pallab Mozumder as a Sabbatical Scholar. Prof. Liu, an Associate Professor at Peking University in China, is an expert on the Chinese regulatory system for chemicals, and he has also been a Chinese […]
Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Joseph Harris is convening the first-ever Symposium on Global Health and the Social Sciences on Nov. 9 and 10, with 25 invited sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists whose research focuses on various aspects of global health. The Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is sponsoring this event […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published a new paper in its Issues in Brief series. The paper, titled “Governance Issues in China’s Food Sufficiency vs. Virtual Water Debate,” was written by Junda Jin, a 2015 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow and a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Boston University. Rapid […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Institute for Sustainable Energy invite you to attend a special lecture by Prof. Christian Blanco, an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Fischer College of Business at The Ohio State University. Prof. Blanco will discuss how he analyzes data to gain insights to help firms […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a seminar on October 19 titled “Assessment of Risks and Options in a Changing Climate,” featuring Katharine Mach, a Senior Research Scientist at Stanford University. Over decades, assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and many others has bolstered understanding […]
Anthony Janetos, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently interviewed about Hurricane Harvey in BU Today. Prof. Janetos explained the ways in which climate change likely influenced the severity of Hurricane Harvey, such as higher sea levels and warmer water temperatures leading to a larger storm surge and […]
The 2017 session of the Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows program concluded on Friday, August 4 as the Summer Fellows submitted their final research papers. The eight BU graduate students spent 10 weeks at the Pardee Center, conducting research and writing papers as well as participating in a series of lunch meetings with Boston University […]
Anthony Janetos, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, will teach a graduate level course this fall titled “Scientific Assessments of Environmental Issues: Process and Evaluation.” Drawing on his wealth of experience serving on several national and international study teams, including the U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA) […]
The 2017 Graduate Summer Fellows have reached the midpoint of the program at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and over the course of two days last week they presented their research progress to receive feedback from Pardee Center staff, post-docs, affiliated faculty, and their peers. On the first day of presentations, Jonathan […]