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The definitive English-language book on Sicilian Wine
MET Wine Studies instructor and Master of Wine Bill Nesto coauthored The World of Sicilian Wine (UC Press, March 2013) with his wife Frances Di Savino. The book has received many positive reviews, including a recent one in the quarterly The World of Fine Wine (issue 43), which calls it... More
Culinary Legend Jacques Pépin Prepares for Final TV Series
Jacques Pépin, cofounder with Julia Child of MET’s Certificate Program in the Culinary Arts and MLA in Gastronomy, recently discussed his last scheduled cooking series (the 26-episode Jacques Pépin: Heart and Soul, scheduled to air in October 2015 on KQED Public Television), and his plans for the future as he... More
MET Faculty Receives Fulbright Scholarship
Dr. Beth Bennett, adjunct lecturer of English at Metropolitan College, was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to teach for nine months in the English Department at the University of Ghana. Bennett will teach African American literature and writing, undertake research in Accra and other sites in the country, and retrace the... More
Campus Climate Lab Awards Funding to Trio of MET Students for Research Effort in Support of BU Climate Plan
These students’ research will help BU facilities managers make critical decisions about what measures to take in planning for climate change. More
Conservation Nonprofit Founder Cites MET Degree for Business Acumen
Beth Allgood (MET’93) is the founder of OneNature, an organization dedicated to balancing human well-being with conservation efforts. She has extensive experience in the nature-oriented nonprofit field, but there’s one thing that sets her apart from her peers—her managerial expertise. More
Professional Genealogy Course Helps Researcher Unlock African American History
John Mills has been on a mission—he wants to help Black Americans like himself learn more about where they come from, even when the past is shrouded by injustice. More
Citing Art’s ‘Infinite Capacity for Reinvention,’ Arts Administration Director DeNatale Offers Positive Forecast for Evolving Field
Like so many spaces, the art world is in the midst of massive change. Technology, an evolving post-pandemic economy, and dynamic reevaluations of cultural norms are only among some of the disruptors facing the field. More
Criminal Justice Master’s Graduate Takes Post as University of Colorado Boulder Public Safety Head
Marlon Lynch (MET’05), who earned his Master of Science in Criminal Justice at BU’s Metropolitan College, was recently appointed associate vice chancellor for public safety at the University of Colorado Boulder. More
In First Year, Administrative Sciences’ Entrepreneurship & Technology Symposium Gathers Dozens of International Innovation Leaders
Innovation is like planting a seed—out of which we hope surprising beauty will come.” So said Irena Vodenska, MET’s chair of administrative sciences, at the inaugural Entrepreneurship & Technology Symposium, which gathered researchers from more than a dozen countries and nearly two dozen research institutions to “Explore New Challenges in Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship in Education. More
Food Business Launched by Global Marketing Management Student Gets International Distribution
Global Marketing Management master’s degree student Parth Mutha is believed to be the first BU student with a product available on Amazon—PROMUNCH, the vegetarian snack he launched during the pandemic. More
MET Online Master’s Programs Climb U.S. News & World Report Poll for 2024, with 3 Top-10 Placements
For the 11th straight year, Metropolitan College online master’s degree programs have been deemed among the best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. This year, three graduate programs netted top-10 ratings, with each climbing above last year’s rankings. More
Urban Affairs Award-Winning Graduate Takes Aim at Career in Higher Ed
Award for Excellence winner Corey Louis Coleman came to Boston University’s Metropolitan College (BU MET) with a clear set of goals. Motivated by the academic legacy of his grandfather, he wanted to take his career skills in the field of construction and amplify them with a Master of Urban Affairs, to further his ambitions to make an eventual transition into higher education and teaching. More
Computer Science Professor Earns $98K Grant to Improve Speech Recognition Technology
Assistant Professor Shengzhi Zhang, of the Metropolitan College Department of Computer Science, has been awarded a grant in the amount of $98,197 from Cisco as part of a project which will help build better speech recognition systems by improving the ways they deal with misidentified inputs. More
Cybersecurity Director Choi: In the Cybercrime Fight, Help Wanted
Every day, our lives become more and more interconnected through the digital space. From our phones to our bank accounts, our work lives to our personal ones, all of it can be accessed through technology—and not just by us ourselves. More
Criminal Justice Graduate Promoted to Police Captain in Rhode Island as Fellow Alum Rises to Lieutenant
Angela Deneault (MET'14), a MS in Criminal Justice graduate, has been named captain of the Jamestown, Rhode Island police department. More
Gastronomy Director Joins Connecticut Public Radio to Chat Kitchenware
Metropolitan College Associate Professor of the Practice and Director of Gastronomy Megan Elias recently joined The Colin McEnroe Show to discuss an interesting food topic—what people keep in their kitchen. More
Gastronomy Student Helps Bring New Life to City Farmers Markets through Mayor’s Office Fellowship
When Andrea Catania first heard about an opportunity to join the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, she didn’t think her Master of Arts in Gastronomy studies would qualify her. But she soon learned the program was open to graduate students of all types, and with the help of the BU Initiative on Cities, she was able to land a summer fellowship that gave her eight weeks to make a difference in the lives of Boston residents. More
Urban Affairs Grad Named Campus Development Director for UMass Amherst
David Dower, a 1997 graduate of Metropolitan College’s Master of Urban Affairs degree program, has been named executive director for campus development at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. More