The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2021 Graduate Summer Fellows. These eight outstanding Boston University graduate students represent five different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments. Starting June 1, the Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks developing research papers to be considered for publication […]
Application deadline: Tuesday, March 16 Download application instructions Applications are now being accepted for the 2021 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 of […]
Former Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow Nicholas Ray and Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Robinson (Wally) Fulweiler co-authored a new paper exploring the impacts of oysters on coastal biogeochemistry. In the paper, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, the authors used a meta-analysis approach to assess how oyster reef restoration and oyster aquaculture development is changing coastal […]
Ariana Gunderson, a 2018 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow and a graduate of the Metropolitan College (MET) Gastronomy program, recently authored two articles about food during pandemics. In the first article, published in the journal Food and Foodways, she explores how COVID-19 has changed the ways San Franciscans eat in public, and how the city’s […]
Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Robinson W. (Wally) Fulweiler and 2019 Graduate Summer Fellow Nicholas Ray recently published a paper exploring the impact of oysters on nitrogen cycling in coastal ecosystems in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series (MEPS). Recent research has focused on quantifying the impact of oyster habitats on biogeochemical cycling in coastal ecosystems, but […]
Ahmad Azari, a 2020 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow and a MA candidate at the Pardee School of Global Studies, recently authored a blog post for BU’s Institute for Sustainable Energy on the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) renewable energy investments during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the post, Azari outlines the recent steps taken by the UAE […]
On July 31, the 2020 session of the Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows program came to an end, concluding the program’s twelfth year, and the first in a remote format. During the final two weeks of the 10-week program, the Fellows submitted preliminary drafts, and had virtual discussions with The Conversation’s Editor and General Manager […]
During the past two weeks, the 2020 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows have participated in a policy workshop with Pardee School of Global Studies Dean Adil Najam, as well as virtual discussions with Faculty Associates Prof. Les Kaufman and Prof. Joseph Harris. The policy workshop hosted by Dean Najam on July 8 centered around two books the Fellows […]
The 2020 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows have reached the midpoint of the 10-week program. Over the course of two days last week, the 10 Fellows presented their research progress to receive feedback from their peers, as well as from Pardee Center staff and affiliated researchers. During 10-minute presentations, followed by 20-minute Q&A sessions, the Fellows presented their ongoing […]
During the past two weeks, the Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows have had virtual lunch discussions with Faculty Research Fellow Neta Crawford and Faculty Associates Kevin Gallagher and Felice Amato. On June 15, Prof. Crawford discussed the Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, which she co-founded in 2010 […]