BU Today Features GDP Center Summer in the Field Fellows
BU Today recently highlighted the experiences of the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center‘s 2018 Summer in the Field Fellows, who spent the summer conducting field research related to the mission of the GDP Center to advance policy-oriented research for financial stability, human well-being, and environmental sustainability across the globe.
The GDP Center, an affiliated center of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, provided stipends to three students — including one Pardee School student — this summer to travel to Asia to conduct research.
The 2018 fellows included Federico Pisani (Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, MA candidate), Rebecca Olson (BU School of Public Health, MPH candidate) and Gedeon Lim (BU Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, PhD candidate in Economics).
BU Today published an August 30, 2018 article entitled “Global Development Policy Fellows Pursue Hands-on Research,” highlighting the experiences of the three fellows.
From the text of the article:
One student spent the summer researching family planning in rural India, another studied job wages on an Indonesian island, and a third designed an app to aid midwives in Myanmar. Meet the inaugural class of the BU Global Development Policy (GDP) Center Summer in the Field Fellows.
The trio of grad students—Federico Pisani (GRS’20), Gedeon Lim (GRS’21), and Rebecca Olson (SPH’19)—each received a $4,000 stipend to travel to Asia to conduct research. They were among 13 candidates who applied for the fellowship, and they were chosen, says center outreach and communication specialist Sarah Lattrell, because their interests aligned closely with the center’s goals—to research financial stability, human well-being, and environmental sustainability across the globe. The center, which operates in partnership with the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and the vice president and associate provost for research, was formed last year.
The GDP Center is a university-wide research center in partnership with the Office of the Vice President and Associate Provost for Research and the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. The GDP Center’s mission is to advance policy-oriented research for financial stability, human well-being, and environmental sustainability.