{"id":23999,"date":"2016-04-28T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?page_id=23999"},"modified":"2020-05-04T11:14:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T15:14:34","slug":"2016-pardee-summer-fellows","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/community\/2016-pardee-summer-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Pardee Summer Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2016\/04\/duclos.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joshua Duclos<\/strong>, doctoral student, Philosophy<br \/>\n<em>He studied the ethics of wilderness preservation and the welfare of wildlife.<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2016\/04\/hines.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Edward Hines<\/strong>, master&#8217;s student, Earth and Environment<br \/>\n<em>He studied\u00a0the links between drought and urban heat stress, the extent to which the connection between the two is recognized by urban policymakers, and possible consequences that may result from policies that do not consider these problems together. <br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2016\/04\/rotz.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Philip Rotz<\/strong>, doctoral student, History<br \/>\n<em>He studied\u00a0Aedes aegypti (the yellow fever mosquito) and the threat of dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever, and zika outbreaks in Durban and coastal KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2016\/04\/stanimirova.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Radost Stanimirova<\/strong>, doctoral student, Earth and Environment<br \/>\n<em>She developed\u00a0a modeling framework that uses remote sensing, meteorological data, and land cover information to help monitor the relative response of global pasturelands to climate variability.<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2016\/04\/tiglay.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leyla Tiglay<\/strong>, doctoral student, Political Science<br \/>\n<em>She studied\u00a0technological and development activities and current governance issues related to the management of rare earth elements.<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2016\/04\/umeh.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chukwuemeka Umeh<\/strong>, doctoral student, Public Health<br \/>\n<em>He studied\u00a0the challenges facing insurance coverage of essential health services in three sub-Saharan African countries (Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya), and what programs or policies need to be modified to ensure universal health coverage. <br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2016\/04\/vivelo.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alexandra Vivelo<\/strong>, doctoral student, Biology<br \/>\n<em>She studied\u00a0whether increased nitrogen fertilization, as a climate change mitigation strategy, poses any long-term threat to affected soils\u2019 ability to provide humans with enough nutrient-dense foods. <br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>More information about the Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program and previous summer fellows is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/community\/graduate-summer-fellows\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Duclos, doctoral student, Philosophy He studied the ethics of wilderness preservation and the welfare of wildlife. &nbsp; 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