CIC Director Choi: Uber Hack Evidence of Need for Cyber-Vigilance, Training
Professor of the Practice Kyung-shick Choi, Metropolitan College’s director of Cybercrime Investigation & Cybersecurity programs, was interviewed by BU Today to share his thoughts on the recent high-profile data breach of international rideshare company Uber. In the Q&A, Dr. Choi outlined the importance of applied learning, as offered by the... More
Chef Jacques Pépin Reflects on Life Lived Through Food in New Chicken-Centric Cookbook
Chef Jacques Pépin, cofounder of BU MET’s Certificate in the Culinary Arts and MA in Gastronomy programs, has released a new book; Jacques Pépin Art of the Chicken: A Master Chef’s Paintings, Stories, and Recipes of the Humble Bird. As featured in a recent news article in the Boston Globe penned... More
Culinary Arts Core Chef Dishes on Dining in Boston
Acclaimed restauranteur Jody Adams, a core chef in BU MET’s Certificate Program in the Culinary Arts, was recently interviewed by the Boston Globe, where she offered her thoughts on Boston’s current restaurant scene, changing neighborhoods, and what it was like keeping businesses afloat during the global pandemic. Adams, one of the... More
3rd Annual White Hat Conference Puts Combating Crypto Crimes in Focus
The third annual International White Hat Conference was held June 1–2, hosted once again by Boston University Metropolitan College and the Center for Cybercrime Investigation & Cybersecurity. Bringing together stakeholders from government, the private sector, and academia, the events were emceed by one of the first-ever graduates of MET’s Master of... More
Fulbright Specialist Award for Cybersecurity Sends Professor Chitkushev to Ecuador
Metropolitan College Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Lou Chitkushev has been granted a prestigious Fulbright Specialist Foreign Scholarship award for work that takes him to Ecuador, where the associate professor of computer science and director of health informatics and health sciences will lend his expertise in cybersecurity to the... More
City Planning & Urban Affairs Interim Director Yeşim Sungu-Eryilmaz Receives Initiative on Cities Grant
Assistant Professor Yeşim Sungu-Eryilmaz, director ad interim of MET’s City Planning & Urban Affairs programs, has been awarded a grant by BU’s Initiative on Cities dedicated to investigating the relative community impact of private sector real estate development projects in the city. As part of the grant, Sungu-Eryilmaz, whose research... More
Gastronomy Master’s Grad Launches Cheese and Charcuterie Catering Business
Kimi Ceridon, a master's degree in gastronomy graduate, was recently featured in a Boston Globe story highlighting her Stoneham-based cheese and charcuterie catering business, Life Love Cheese. The former engineer pivoted to specialty food services after completing her studies at MET, where she also earned the Certificate in Culinary Arts. Read... More
Boston’s New Police Commissioner Should Implement Direct Community Oversight, Says Shea Cronin
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Shea Cronin recently spoke with BU Today about Boston’s newly appointed police commissioner, Michael Cox, who arrives to the job with a mandate to reform the department he oversees. The chair of MET’s Department of Applied Social Sciences, Cronin offered suggestions on how Cox can... More
Return to Workplace Makes Lunch Hour More Important, Gastronomy Director Says
As author of Lunch: The History of a Meal, Dr. Megan Elias is an authority on the midday meal. The Gastronomy program director and associate professor of the practice, who has previously noted that lunch was the meal most impacted by the pandemic, was quoted in a recent Boston Globe... More
MET Health Communication Program Cofounder Helps Examine Neighborhood Iconography in Visual Media Journal
In recent a contribution to The Journal of Visual Communications, visual literacy expert Dr. Domenic Screnci, who helped to found Metropolitan College’s groundbreaking MS in Health Communication, turns his eye to a different kind of medium: the religious lawn shrines of Italian American neighborhoods like the East Boston one where... More
After Walking in Her Hero’s Footsteps, Culinary Arts Student Lives Dream by Winning Julia Child Challenge
A former culinary arts student at BU MET is making a name for herself by following in the footsteps of her culinary idol all the way to the screen, and into the winner’s circle. Jaíne Mackievicz grew up watching Programs in Food & Wine co-founder and star chef Julia Child teach... More
New Data on High-Paying Jobs Puts Spotlight on MET Programs
The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has released new data on which career tracks have the most promising professional outlooks through 2030, bringing to light the value of many Metropolitan College programs. Director of Cybercrime Investigation & Cybersecurity programs and Professor of the Practice Kyung-shick Choi spoke with BU Today... More
MET Faculty Among BU’s Inaugural Fellows to Develop Antiracist Curricula
Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research has a mission to build an antiracist society that ensures racial equity and social justice. Now, a pair of MET faculty will take significant steps in advancing that mission by redesigning courses in ways that thoughtfully foreground antiracist practices in curricula and pedagogical strategies. More
Cabin Fever, Song in Her Heart Propels MET Student to Marathon
It takes tremendous will to run a marathon. To go the considerable distance, runners draw deeply from all kinds of reserves. For Olivia Clachar, a BU employee who is capitalizing on her benefits by pursuing her BS in Management Studies at MET, it was the confinement born of the global... More
City Planning & Urban Affairs Students Make Impact with South Boston Curb Usage Study
A major component to any Metropolitan College (MET) education is hands-on experience within a given field. Students studying for their Master of City Planning or Master of Urban Affairs are given opportunities to connect with policymakers, urban leaders, and academics. And in fall 2021, through BU’s Initiative on Cities (IoC)... More