On October 3, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted its annual fall reception. At the beginning of the reception, the eight 2023 Graduate Summer Fellows, who represent four different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments, gave a series of lightning talks on the outcomes of their […]
On September 21, 2023, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the Center for the Study of Asia, and the Kilachand Honors College co-hosted a conference titled “Clandestine Operations Against China during the Early Cold War.” This conference was, in part, an effort to honor the service and sacrifice of […]
Last week, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study for the Longer Range Future at Boston University hosted a meeting of the Climate-Biodiversity Initiative for Ocean Managed Ecosystems (C-BIOME). The initiative, sponsored by Conservation International and convened at the Pardee Center by Faculty Associate Prof. Randi Rotjan, brought together an international group of biodiversity […]
Photo by Jake Belcher Boston University recently awarded the third annual Anthony Janetos Climate Action Prize to Carly Golden (Molecular & Translational Medicine, CAMED ’27) for her research, in collaboration with Dr. Angie Serrano, Saylor Williams (Serrano Lab Manager), and Greg Miller (CReM Lab Manager), which aims to reduce plastic waste and energy consumption in […]
Last week, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future welcomed the 16th cohort of its Graduate Summer Fellows program to the Center. This year’s session includes BU graduate students representing four different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments. During the first two weeks of the program, the Fellows participated in […]
On May 16, 2023, the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the Global Development Policy Center, and the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) held a workshop in Cali, Colombia, titled “Financing the Foundation: The Role of Development Banks in Catalyzing a 21st Century Infrastructure in South America.” The meeting, held in […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2023 Graduate Summer Fellows. These eight outstanding Boston University graduate students represent four different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments. Starting May 30, the Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks developing research papers to be considered for publication […]
Jeffrey Geddes, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently gave an invited talk at the American Chemical Society’s 2023 Spring Meeting in Indianapolis. The title of his talk was “Sources and Sinks in the Biosphere: Advancing the Predictive Capacity of Ecosystem-Atmosphere-Chemistry Interactions.” In his […]
Sam Deese and Michael Holm, Senior Lecturers in the College of General Studies and former Faculty Research Fellows at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, are the co-editors of a new book exploring how liberal democracy can better adapt to the challenges of our time by evolving beyond the […]
The world today faces a huge contradiction. On the one hand, the data shows that power, especially economic power, is shifting to Asia. On the other hand, the established powers, especially in the trans-Atlantic alliance, refuse to acknowledge that a major transition in world history is happening, as they continue to cling to old privileges […]