More Than the Year of COVID: Pardee School 2020 In Review

While 2020 was filled with headlines dominated by COVID-19 and its global impacts, this year was also an incredibly eventful at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. To cap off this year, we have compiled some of the biggest stories from 2020 below.

There will be much more to come from the Pardee School’s faculty, students, research centers, and alumni community in the coming year, and we look forward to sharing it with you.

Faculty News

Menchik Promoted to Associate Professor	Henrik Selin Appointed Associate Dean for Studies	Lukes and Grimes Awarded 2020 Gitner Prize for Faculty Excellence
Pardee School Welcomes 3 New Faculty Members	Janine Ferretti Appointed to World Bank Leadership Position	Schmidt Awarded Honorary Professorship

Research/Book News

Min Ye Publishes New Book: The Belt Road and Beyond	Jessica Stern Publishes New Book on Radovan Karadžić	Miller Co-edits Book on China-India Relations; Ye Contributes Chapter	Pardee School Launches Global Decolonization Initiative
Schmidt Publishes Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy	Selin Publishes New Book: Mercury Stories	Brulé Publishes Women, Power, and Property	Chehabi Publishes New Book: Onomastic Reforms

Student News

Pardee School Welcomes 2019-21 Dean’s Ambassadors	Pardee School Students Awarded UROP Grants	Pardee School Celebrates the Class of 2020
Pardee Students Awarded for Academic Achievement	Pardee School Students Selected for Yawkey Program	Dean’s Ambassadors and Pardee Leadership Meet to Discuss Diversity and Inclusion

Research Center News

Daniela Caruso Named New Director of the Center for the Study of Europe	Pardee Center Joins the Pardee School	Woldemariam Named Director of African Studies Center
CURA Announces 2020-21 Fellows	World After Coronavirus: A Pardee Center Video Series	GDP Center Launches Database on China’s Development Finance

Alumni News

Two Pardee Alums Make Forbes “30 Under 30” List

Pardee School Launches Alumni Video Spotlight Series

Pardee School Alumni Awarded Joint Service Commendation Medal

Event News

Policy Leaders Forum: Mexican Amb. Martha Bárcena Coqui	Gallagher and Najam Discuss COVID-19 with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister	Pardee School and Center Host 3-Part “World In Flux” Series
CLAS Hosts Panel Discussion on DACA	Deans Najam & Galea Explore the Realities of Climate Change	BtH Explores Global Perception of U.S. Presidential Election

In Remembrance

Dearly Departed: Remembering Sharat Kumar Nambiar	RIP: Professor Robert Jackson
RIP: Professor Uri Ra’anan	RIP: Professor Joachim Maître

General School News

We Stand Against Racism	Back2BU Experience at the Pardee School
A Message to BU Pardee School Students from Ban Ki-moon	A Conversation with DAB Member Aamer Sarfraz on Being Named to UK House of Lords

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