The Boston University community, and especially the staff of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, deeply feels the loss of Director Anthony Janetos, who died of pancreatic cancer in early August. A well-known leader in the global climate change community, Tony came to BU and the Pardee Center in […]
The Global Development Policy Center and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently co-hosted a seminar titled “A Climate Risk Assessment of Sovereign Bonds’ Portfolio,” featuring Irene Monasterolo of Vienna University of Economics and Business. Monasterolo, a Pardee Center post-doctoral associate from 2015-2017, is a development economist with experience in policy […]
Prof. Anthony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor and Chair of the Department of Earth & Environment, was featured on WGBH’s Greater Boston where he discussed a recently released United Nations assessment report on the global state of biodiversity. The report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2019 Graduate Summer Fellows. These seven outstanding Boston University graduate students represent six different academic departments. Starting May 28th, the Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks at the Pardee House developing research papers to be considered for publication as part of […]
Ariana Gunderson, a 2018 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow, was one of seven graduate students from across Boston University who participated in a “puppet slam” on April 18 as part of an experimental course called “Thinking Through Puppets and Performing Objects” initiated by Pardee Center Faculty Associate Felice Amato. The HUB Cross-College Challenge course, a […]
Several scholars affiliated with the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future presented research at the 2019 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting held from April 3-7 in Washington, DC. Post-doctoral associate Laurence Delina presented a paper titled, “Energy Use for Productive Purposes as Indicator for Energy Access: Lessons Learned […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University is pleased to welcome Emily Klein as a senior post-doctoral associate. Broadly, Emily is interested in better understanding the dynamics, structure, and resilience of coupled human-natural systems through time and space, and how that knowledge can guide decisions and policies […]
Pamela Templer, a Professor in the Department of Biology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently elected as a 2019 Ecological Society of America (ESA) Fellow. The ESA fellows program was established in 2012 to recognize members who have made outstanding contributions to ecological […]
On April 11, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a seminar titled “The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change.” The panel discussion was convened by Ellen Ruppel Shell (Pardee Center Faculty Associate, and Professor and Co-Director of the Graduate Program in Science Journalism), and […]
Marcia McNutt, the President of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), discussed the role of science in what has been called the “post-truth” era when she gave the 2019 Pardee Center Distinguished Lecture at the GSU Metcalf Ballroom on March 5. The lecture, titled “The Past, Present & Future of Truth,” was sponsored by the […]