Dr. Miquel Muñoz, Postdoctoral Fellow at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-range Future, contributes to the World Climate Teach-in Day. The World Climate Teach-In Day will consist of lectures on different aspects of climate change prepared by some of the leading experts in the field, and will involve thousands […]
Pardee Graduate Fellow, Rachel Denae Thrasher, authored two articles with the recently reprinted Encyclopedia of Sustainability Volume II (The Business of Sustainability). Thrasher authored the articles on Fair Trade and Free Trade in the volume. The Business of Sustainability is a core resource for business and economics students, policy makers, members of the development community, […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of International Relations and Geography and Environment at Boston University was invited to give a plenary presentation at the 2010 Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation Day (MALSI 2010). The theme of this year’s event was “The Future […]
The blog All Things Pakistan (Pakistaniat.com) founded and edited by Prof. Adil Najam – the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a Professor of International Relations at Boston University – won top honors in the category of Current Affairs Blog in the First Pakistan Blog Awards. […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a lunch seminar on ‘Future Challenges of Global Energy Systems ‘ on Tuesday, June 8, 2010, featuring Dr. Rajan Gupta from the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Seminar will be moderated by Prof. Adil Najam, Director, Pardee Center. Dr. Rajan Gupta […]
The Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future kicked off its 2010 Summer Program today with the arrival of the 2010 batch of Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows. Launched in 2008 and formalized in 2009, this is the third year of the Summer Fellows program. The 2010 class of […]
Pardee Center Faculty Fellow, BU Professor of Geography and Environment, and Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of the Earth, Prof. Cutler Cleveland, has written a comprehensive report on all aspects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also known as the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill or the BP Oil Spill) in the Encyclopedia of the Earth. […]
Pardee Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Miquel Muñoz Cabré and Pardee Visiting Fellow Bernd Sommer published a joint piece on the recent 18th Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD 18). CSD 18 was held at UN Headquarters in New York, May 3-14, and convened under the topics of mining, chemicals, transport and sustainable consumption […]
Boston University Provost Dr. David Campbell and Pardee Center Director Prof. Adil Najam presented the findings and state of research on the “Mapping Complexity in Higher Education in Developing Countries” project to a meeting of the National Academies of Sciences Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) meeting in Chicago on Friday, May 21, 2010. Pardee Center Faculty […]
Enrique R. Silva, Assistant Professor and Faculty Coordinator of City Planning and Urban Affairs from Boston University, was named as a Faculty Fellow of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Prof. Silva has been involved with the Pardee House since the beginning of 2010. In March 2010, […]