Application deadline: Monday, March 14, 2015 Download application instructions Applications are now being accepted for the 2016 Pardee 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 broad research interests of BU’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of […]
Cancer is the leading global cause of death, and has been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa and worldwide, which are projected to account for roughly 80 percent of global cancer diagnoses by 2030. Much like the inadequate funding and priority-setting that plagued the treatment of HIV/AIDS early in the epidemic, cancer treatment […]
Two alumni of the Graduate Summer Fellows Program at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future were recently featured in a BU Research Special Report for their work in Africa. Lilly Havstad and Christopher Conz, both doctoral candidates in BU’s History Department and members of the Summer Fellows Program in 2014 and […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a symposium on Tuesday, November 17 at the Boston University School of Law titled, “Adaptation Strategies: Coping with Climate Change and Natural Disasters in Developed and Developing Countries.” Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos gave an introduction, followed by presentations by Richard Moss (Senior Scientist, […]
Due to demand, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invites Boston University graduate students interested in applying for our 2016 Graduate Summer Fellows program to a second information session at the Pardee House, 67 Bay State Road, on Friday, December 11, 2015 from 12:00-1:15 pm (lunch will be provided starting at 11:30 […]
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 […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted Kei Koizumi, Assistant Director of Federal Research and Development at the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP), for a lunch discussion with the Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows on Tuesday, July 28. Koizumi, a Boston University graduate, spoke at length about the role of the OSTP […]
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 […]
Sahar Abi Hassan, a doctoral student in the department of Political Science and a 2015 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently presented a paper at the XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), held in San Juan, Puerto Rico from May 27-30. […]