Christine Marsico, a 2020 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow and a PhD candidate at BU’s Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, recently co-authored an op-ed in BU Today on the impacts of xenophobic rhetoric and immigration-based harassment on stress and anxiety levels in schools. Research shows that harassment based on immigration status has been increasing in recent years. Marsico’s […]
Over the past two weeks, the Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows have had virtual lunch discussions with Prof. Muhammad H. Zaman and Prof. Lucy Hutyra, and participated in an interactive “cartoonathon” with Visiting Research Fellows Pablo Suarez and Janot Mendler de Suarez exploring the use of humor to better communicate about the future. On June 3, Prof. Zaman, a Pardee […]
This week, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future welcomed the 2020 Graduate Summer Fellows. Over the course of the next 10 weeks, the Fellows will develop research papers to be considered for the Pardee Center’s publication series while participating in remote programs designed to advance interdisciplinary research and learning. On the first […]
Kate Mitchell, a doctoral candidate at the BU School of Public Health and a 2019 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored an article on maternal newborn health (MNH) care delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic in the journal Health and Human Rights. In the article, the […]
Les Kaufman, a Professor in the Department of Biology and a Pardee Center Faculty Associate, and Eliza Garfield, a 2015 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow, are among the co-authors of a new analysis of coral reef restoration projects in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary published in the journal PLOS ONE. Since the 1970s, staghorn coral […]
Kristin Sippl, a 2011 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a paper on the evolution and impacts of sustainability standards for gold as part of a special issue of the journal Ecological Economics. In the paper, Sippl examines transnational certification standards in the artisanal […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2020 Graduate Summer Fellows. These 10 outstanding Boston University graduate students represent five different schools or colleges and nine different academic departments. Starting May 26th, the Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks developing research papers to be considered for publication […]
This event has been postponed. Please stay tuned for information about a rescheduled date. The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is one of the co-sponsors of an upcoming symposium titled “Silences and Reverberations: Studying Historical and Contemporary Vietnam.” The one-day symposium will take place on Wednesday, March 18 from 9:30 […]
The application deadline has been extended to Monday, March 23 Download application instructions Applications are now being accepted for the 2020 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 […]
Radost Stanimirova, a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth & Environment and a 2016 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a paper titled “Sensitivity of Global Pasturelands to Climate Variation” published in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) journal Earth’s Future. Pastures are the most […]