On September 28, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a forum titled “Economic Expansions, Past and Present: How America’s Experience Connects to Modern-Day China.” In late 2013, the Chinese leadership launched the ambitious Belt and Road strategy to counter industrial overcapacities and economic downturn. Economic priorities have driven the […]
Anthony Janetos, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently interviewed about Hurricane Harvey in BU Today. Prof. Janetos explained the ways in which climate change likely influenced the severity of Hurricane Harvey, such as higher sea levels and warmer water temperatures leading to a larger storm surge and […]
John Patrick Connors, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently participated in an interdisciplinary workshop hosted by the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group (MGGG) at Tufts University to study applications of geometry and computing to gerrymandering in the United States. The “Geometry of Redistricting” workshop at […]
Pamela Templer, a Professor in the Biology Department and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently awarded a $3 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Traineeship (NRT) grant. The NRT program awarded a total of $51 million across 17 projects to “develop and implement bold, new, […]
The 2017 session of the Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows program concluded on Friday, August 4 as the Summer Fellows submitted their final research papers. The eight BU graduate students spent 10 weeks at the Pardee Center, conducting research and writing papers as well as participating in a series of lunch meetings with Boston University […]
The Boston Green Ribbon Commission and Boston University hosted a panel discussion on Internal Carbon Funds on Thursday, September 21. Carbon pricing is a policy instrument regarded by climate scientists, economists, and political and business leaders as an important part of efforts to mitigate global climate change. Microsoft’s Liz Willmott explained how in its first five years […]
On July 31, the Graduate Summer Fellows had their ninth and final faculty lunch discussion of the session with Prof. Pallab Mozumder, an Associate Professor of Earth & Environment and Economics at Florida International University and a recently appointed Sabbatical Scholar at the Pardee Center from August 2017 through May 2018. Prof. Mozumder spoke about his educational background, from […]
Anthony Janetos, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, will teach a graduate level course this fall titled “Scientific Assessments of Environmental Issues: Process and Evaluation.” Drawing on his wealth of experience serving on several national and international study teams, including the U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA) […]
On July 26, the Graduate Summer Fellows had a lunch discussion with Suchi Gopal, a professor of Earth & Environment and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Prof. Gopal talked about her career path and her wide range of research interests, including GIS and remote sensing, artificial intelligence, spatial analysis […]
The Graduate Summer Fellows recently had a lunch discussion with Jennifer Weeks, the Environment and Energy Editor at The Conversation, a non-profit online publication featuring articles written by academics and intended for the general public. Weeks gave an overview of the origin of The Conversation, which began in Australia and now has editions in Africa, Canada, […]