Administrative Sciences Chair Offers Finance Tips for Rookie Investors
Dr. Irena Vodenska—professor of finance, director of the MS in Financial Management (MSFM) program, and chair of the Department of Administrative Sciences at BU MET—lent her professional and academic expertise to The Ascent, weighing in with tips for first-time investors, clearing up common misconceptions around stock trading, and providing guidance for how consumers should decide […]
MET Computer Science and Distance Education Authors Team Up for a Second Book
Hot on the heels of Best Practices for Administering Online Programs (New York: Routledge, 2021), three BU Metropolitan College coauthors have regrouped to produce another book: Winning Online Instruction: A Q&A for Higher Education Faculty (New York: Routledge, 2022) Dr. Dan Hillman, associate director of instructional design for BU MET’s Office of Distance Education; Dr. […]
Newest Episode of MET Makes Conversation Podcast Explores Global Supply Chain Lessons Revealed by Pandemic
The global pandemic gave consumers across the world a deeper appreciation for the importance of quality supply chain management, as irregularities led to service interruptions, product shortages, and delays. On the newest episode of MET Makes Conversation, the podcast where Metropolitan College faculty lend academic perspectives to real-world challenges, supply chain management experts Canan Gunes […]
Financial Management Director Dr. Irena Vodenska Among BU’s Select Promotions to Full Professor
Dr. Irena Vodenska, who joined Boston University’s Metropolitan College as an assistant professor in 2009, became an associate professor in 2016, and serves as director of the MS in Financial Management program in Administrative Sciences, has been promoted to professor of finance, in recognition of her many accomplishments and contributions to the College and University. […]
Criminal Justice Faculty Examine BU Prison Education Program’s Legacy of Social Justice
This past November, MET professors of criminal justice Dr. Mary Ellen Mastrorilli and Dr. Danielle Rousseau were invited to join BU’s Slone Epidemiology Center to lead a midday Brown Bag Seminar focused on MET’s Prison Education Program (PEP), underscoring its legacy as a purposeful effort by BU to champion greater social justice. When activist Elizabeth […]
Pandemic’s Most Impacted Meal? Lunch, Says MET Food Historian
As a historian, MET Director of Gastronomy Megan Elias takes the long view of the way society interacts with food. The author and associate professor of the practice put the midday meal in focus with her 2014 tome, Lunch: A History, and was recently interviewed by Quartz to shed light on how she thinks the […]
Chef Pépin Shares His Favorite Poem in BU Today
In a BU Today video, renowned chef and television personality Jacques Pépin (Hon.’11) recites his favorite poem, Rimbaud’s “Le Dormeur du Val” (“The Sleeper of the Valley”). The reading is part of the Favorite Poem Project, which was launched in 1997 by former poet laureate Robert Pinsky, a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and a […]
Cybercrime Investigation & Cybersecurity Program Gets $430K Department of Justice Grant for Digital Evidence Education
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has awarded a new block of grant funding to the BU Metropolitan College Cybercrime Investigation & Cybersecurity (CIC) graduate program, dedicated to aligning the development and refinement of programs in computer forensics and digital evidence with the emerging and ongoing needs of law enforcement agencies. With Associate Dean for […]
Desire to Protect Vulnerable Youth Motivates Cybersecurity Student
Rossana De Gaspari, a student in MET’s Master of Science in Criminal Justice program, is featured as part of the Boston Globe’s “Aging Strong” series, which spotlights the achievements of those who continue to set ambitious, fulfilling goals as they get older. De Gaspari, a former school teacher who began to pursue her advanced education […]
MET Computer Science and Learning Team Authors New Tome on Best Practices in Online Education
Best Practices for Administering Online Programs, a new book to be published later this month by Routledge Press, is a collaborative effort by BU MET leadership, faculty, and staff that lays out the principles of one of the College’s major strengths: affordable, accessible, and scalable online learning. Digital, distance-based instruction is a highly collaborative field, […]