Michael Dietze, an associate professor of Earth & Environment, discussed concepts from his new book, Ecological Forecasting (Princeton University Press 2017), at a seminar hosted by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on June 21. In the book, Prof. Dietze presents “a new way of doing ecology,” bringing together the […]
On June 22, the Graduate Summer Fellows had a lunch discussion with 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. Prof. Harris gave an overview of his research on the “social determinants of health” — such as class, […]
The founding Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Prof. David Fromkin, passed away on June 11, 2017 at age 84. A widely respected scholar and a prolific author, he served as the inaugural Director of the Pardee Center from 2000 through 2007. Obituaries were published in The […]
The Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows met with Faculty Research Fellow Kevin Gallagher over lunch on June 13. Prof. Gallagher talked about his research on international trade and investment agreements and global financial and environmental governance issues. He also discussed his career path from an undergraduate major in biology and political science to his current […]
An article by Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos that was published recently by The Conversation has been picked up by media outlets and websites around the world. Originally appearing in The Conversation on June 4, the article is about research conducted by Prof. Janetos and Pardee Center Post-Doctoral Associate John Connors that uses models to […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invites you to attend its upcoming seminar with Prof. Michael Dietze, an associate professor in the Department of Earth & Environment, where he will discuss his new book, “Ecological Forecasting” from Princeton University Press. The seminar will be held at the Pardee Center at […]
On the second day of the program, the Graduate Summer Fellows at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future participated in a writing and communications workshop led by Director Anthony Janetos and Associate Director Cynthia Barakatt. Janetos and Barakatt began with an overview of the structure and objective of the research paper that […]
On May 30, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future welcomed its 2017 class of Graduate Summer Fellows. The eight Boston University graduate students, representing six different academic departments, will spend the next 10 weeks in residence at the Pardee House developing research papers on a wide range of topics for consideration in […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2017 Graduate Summer Fellows. These eight outstanding Boston University graduate students represent various disciplines, including Earth & Environment, Sociology, Economics, Anthropology, International Affairs, and Political Science. Starting May 30th, the Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks at the Pardee House developing […]
Radost Stanimirova, a 2016 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth & Environment, has been accepted as a fellow in the Young Scientists Summer Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Vienna. Since 1977, IIASA’s annual three-month […]