Bryan Patenaude, a 2013 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently made the 2020 Forbes “30 Under 30” List in the healthcare category. Patenaude is a healthcare economist specializing in disease intervention, with a particular focus on HIV/AIDS. He currently leads a project that seeks […]
Joshua Duclos, a 2016 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently published a paper titled “Uncomplicating the Idea of Wilderness” in the journal Environmental Values. In the paper, Duclos responds to common empirical, cultural, philosophical, and environmental objections to the idea of “wilderness” in environmental ethics […]
Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Robinson W. (Wally) Fulweiler and 2019 Graduate Summer Fellow Nicholas Ray recently published a paper titled “Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Native and Non-native Oysters” in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science. The paper’s lead author was Gretchen McCarthy of the Fulweiler Lab. The introduction of non-native species of oysters is commonly associated with a wide […]
Kevin Boueri, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology and a 2019 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently released a teaser trailer for a documentary that he’s creating about the Lebanon Mountain Trail (LMT). The film, titled Jabalna, will be “a series of […]
Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow Prof. James McCann and 2018 Graduate Summer Fellow Kristen Carey presented at the first Rocky Mountain Workshop on African History from August 9-11 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Carey, a PhD candidate in the Department of History, presented a paper titled “Bogeys and Misconceptions: The Formation and Portrayal of Tanzanian Population Policy: […]
Last week, the seven 2019 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows submitted initial drafts of their research papers. Over the past month, the Fellows have had lunch discussions with Faculty Research Fellows Prof. Wendy Heiger-Bernays (Environmental Health), Prof. Lucy Hutyra (Earth and Environment), and Prof. Les Kaufman (Biology), as well as Jennifer Weeks, the Environment and Energy […]
Nicholas Ray, a PhD candidate in the Department of Biology and a 2019 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow, is the first author of a recent paper exploring oysters’ denitrification ability. In the paper, published in Marine Ecology Progress Series (MEPS), Ray and his co-authors demonstrate that the oyster digestive system can remove significant amounts of […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published a new paper in its Issues in Brief series. The paper, titled “Demography is not Destiny: The Faulty Link Between Population and Development,” was written by Kristen Carey, a PhD candidate in the department of history and a 2018 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow. […]
Over the past two weeks, the 2019 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows have had lunch discussions with Faculty Research Fellow Prof. Kevin Gallagher (Pardee School of Global Studies and Director of the Global Development Policy Center) and Faculty Associate Prof. Felice Amato (School of Visual Arts). On June 26, as they reached the midpoint of the […]
Over the course of the past two weeks, the Graduate Summer Fellows at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future have had a lunch discussion with Center Director Prof. Anthony Janetos, attended a reception with program alumni, and participated in an interactive game session designed to improve decision-making about the […]