Note-by-Note Cooking—Dr. Hervé This speaks at BU on Friday, October 24
French author and physical chemist Hervé This was one of the key figures in the development of molecular gastronomy in the 1990s. On Friday, October 24, at 6 p.m., Dr. This will be joining Boston University’s Programs in Food, Wine & the Arts to discuss his provocative vision in culinary innovation: note-by-note cooking. In a […]
MET Computer Science Professor Receives DLI Grant
MET Associate Professor of Computer Science Eric Braude was one of three Boston University faculty to win an EdTech Seed Grant from BU’s Digital Learning Initiative (DLI)—a faculty-led group that acts as the “hub” for BU’s MOOCs (massive open online courses), and serves to “spearhead the University’s most innovative projects in online learning, uninhibited by […]
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 an “impressively scholarly new book.” […]
Arts Administration’s Richard Maloney on Jury for 2014 ENCATC Award
Assistant Professor and Director ad interim of Arts Administration Richard Maloney was a member of the award jury for the 2014 ENCATC Cultural Policy and Cultural Management Research Award, bestowed on Elodie Bordat, from Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence in France. ENCATC is the leading European network on cultural management and cultural policy education. The award ceremony—held […]
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 turns 80. In the News […]
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 steps Richard Wright took on […]
MET: Revolutionizing Boston’s Wine Industry
Metropolitan College’s Wine Studies Program was credited for producing “many of the region’s leading wine trade experts and professionals” in Scott Saunders’ article for Meininger’s Wine Business International, “Wine market to watch: Boston.” Quoted in the article are Wine Studies instructor and Master of Wine Bill Nesto, along with former students of the program. Read […]
Learning from Boston’s Top Cop
A BU Today series examining the building blocks of education at BU recently profiled Boston Police Commissioner William Evans, who is teaching MET’s criminal justice course Policing in a Democratic Society. Evans, who this year received a Roger Deveau Part-Time Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, is spending six hours a week this summer in a BU […]
MET Online Course Wins Catalyst Award with Distinction
Blackboard’s Catalyst Award, Director’s Choice for Courses with Distinction, was given to Associate Professor and Chair of Computer Science Anatoly Temkin and Senior Instructional Designer Dan Hillman for Quantitative Methods for Information Systems, a core course in MET’s online master’s in Computer Information Systems. As defined by Blackboard, the Catalyst Award “honors those who push […]
MET Commencement 2014 and Speaker Dr. Bacevich
On Saturday, May 17, 2014, this year’s class of MET graduates received their diplomas. While the students are now moving on to the next steps in their lives, we won’t forget the great strides they made here at MET or how they’ve enriched this university. Dean ad interim Tanya Zlateva introduced Commencement 2014 Speaker Andrew […]