Application Deadline: Tuesday, March 14 Download full application instructions Applications are now being accepted for the 2023 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 Center for the Study […]
Ateeb Gul, a 2022 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow and a PhD candidate in Religion at Boston University, recently presented a paper at a symposium at the University of Oslo’s Norwegian Centre for Human Rights. The paper, titled “Child Marriage Legislation in Pakistan: Religious (Counter)Narratives and the Politics of Law,” is the result of Gul’s recent research as […]
Noor Toraif, a 2021 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow and a PhD candidate at BU’s School of Social Work, was recently featured in a BU Today article for her work creating a new free online course for understanding structural racism. Led by Dawn Belkin Martinez, a School of Social Work Clinical Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Equity […]
John Okechi, a 2020 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow, recently co-authored a paper exploring the ecological health of Lake Victoria resulting from the rapid growth of cage aquaculture in recent years. About 45 million people depend on Lake Victoria directly and indirectly for their food, economic livelihoods, transportation, and more. To offset the effects of climate […]
On September 28, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted its annual fall reception. At the beginning of the reception, the eight 2022 Graduate Summer Fellows, who represent five different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments, gave a series of lightning talks on the outcomes of their […]
Joshua Duclos, a former Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, authored a new book titled Wilderness, Morality, and Value. In the book, Duclos explores the morality of wilderness preservation given the inherent suffering of wildlife, and argues that “the technological and ethical reality of the […]
This week, the 2022 Graduate Summer Fellows gave presentations on their ongoing research projects at the midpoint of the 10-week program at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. The eight Fellows presented their research progress to date and next steps, receiving feedback from their peers, Pardee Center staff, and affiliated faculty. The Fellows will […]
This week, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future welcomes the 15th cohort of the Graduate Summer Fellows program to the Center. This year’s session includes BU graduate students representing five different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments. Over the course of the next 10 weeks, the Fellows will write […]
As American female labor force participation and educational attainment has grown over the past seven decades, laws supporting women with children have not kept pace with changes in workforce demographics, particularly in the form of paid maternity leave. Relative to its economic counterparts, the United States has shown a significant delay in addressing the increasing […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2022 Graduate Summer Fellows. These eight outstanding Boston University graduate students represent five different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments. Starting May 31, the Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks developing research papers to be considered for publication […]