07/14/2026
While campus slows down for the summer, students at the Frederick S. Pardee Institute for International Futures are hard at work on research that reaches around the globe.
Pardee's graduate fellows are supporting the foundational research for future scenario work on the [this is a bit of a word salad, but want to make the distinction clear students will be doing the foundational work for the forecasts, not the forecasts themselves] the potential long-term effects of the war in Iran, digging into a literature review of the conflict's impacts to help shape future scenarios. They're also fine-tuning International Futures (IFs), the institute's long-range forecasting system, by checking the more than 200 indicators it tracks and improving its help guide.
On the C**T project, research aides are building a one-of-a-kind dataset that tracks the overseas travel of world leaders across roughly 200 countries and organizations, going all the way back to 1990, turning deep qualitative research into data that academics and policymakers actually rely on.
And the Core Diplo team is busy behind the scenes, writing custom tools to collect data, cleaning up records across 600+ UN treaties, and mapping embassies and diplomatic ties around the world, all to strengthen datasets that U.S. government partners and researchers depend on.
The best part? Students are gaining real, hands-on skills while doing work that matters well beyond campus. Summer may quiet the campus, but it doesn't quiet the work.
