MET Alum Leads Museum of African American History to Greater Heights

MET Alum Leads Museum of African American History to Greater Heights

In a recent interview with Bostonia: Boston University’s Alumni Magazine, Leon E. Wilson (MET’75), the president and CEO of the Museum of African American History, explains the ways his nonprofit organization found growing success even amid the challenges of operating during a global pandemic. Wilson, who earlier in his career earned... More

Spring Pépin Lecture Series offers Global Perspectives on Food

Spring Pépin Lecture Series offers Global Perspectives on Food

The Pépin Lecture Series at Boston University is your chance to learn from some of the world’s foremost gastronomy and food studies experts, free of charge. Sponsored by the Jacques Pépin Foundation, these lectures explore issues of the day through the prism of food. This spring’s slate of Pépin lectures features... More

MET Computer Science Student Wins Top Prize at BU Innovation Awards

MET Computer Science Student Wins Top Prize at BU Innovation Awards

An app that simplifies the circuit design process made a winner of one MET student at this year’s BU Spark! Fall 2021 Demo Day, held in December. Harunobu Ishii (MET’22), who is pursuing his Master of Science in Computer Science (MSCS) with a concentration in Data Analytics, was part of the... More

How Catholic Symbolism, Mysticism Feeds Horror in Mass Media

How Catholic Symbolism, Mysticism Feeds Horror in Mass Media

Hollywood has a long tradition of drawing inspiration from diverse sources, but according to Dr. Regina Hansen, editor of Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema, one of the movie industry’s favorite creative wellsprings is the Catholic Church, thanks in large part to the religion’s relationship with the supernatural. Writing... More

Urban Grape’s TJ Douglas Interviewed in Yankee Magazine Featured

Urban Grape’s TJ Douglas Interviewed in Yankee Magazine

On October 28, 2021, TJ Douglas—owner of Boston’s South End wine retailer Urban Grape with his wife and business partner Hadley—was featured in Yankee Magazine’s “Weekends with Yankee Q&A.” In the Q&A, TJ discusses his approach to making wine approachable and accessible to those of us who fall between “connoisseur”... More

How Health Equity Relies on Health Literacy

How Health Equity Relies on Health Literacy

The language of healthcare can be hard to understand. For those with basic or marginal health literacy, it can even be a hazard. At last month’s annual meeting of the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD), Leigh Curtin-Wilding, director of the BU MET Health Communication program, shared insights on the evolution... More

Bold New Horizons Take the Stage at Performing Arts Administration Panel

Bold New Horizons Take the Stage at Performing Arts Administration Panel

The theater business never stared down a crisis more dramatic than the 2020 onset of a global pandemic. All across the world, stages went dark for an unscheduled and indeterminate intermission, cheating audiences out of performances they rely on to inspire awe and wonder, and leaving theater managers, along with... More

MET Cybercrime Investigation Chief Wins National Award for Contribution to Criminology Field

MET Cybercrime Investigation Chief Wins National Award for Contribution to Criminology Field

Dr. Kyung-shick Choi, director of Cybercrime Investigation & Cybersecurity (CIC) at Boston University’s Metropolitan College, has won the American Society of Criminology’s Division of Cybercrime’s Outstanding Contribution Award. Nominated by peers from higher education institutions across the country, the award comes in recognition of Dr. Choi’s exceptional commitment to cybercrime investigation... More

Criminal Justice Alum Brings Cybercrime Knowledge to Canadian News

Criminal Justice Alum Brings Cybercrime Knowledge to Canadian News

Chris Kayser (MET’16), founder, president, and CEO of the Calgary-based security firm Cybercrime Analytics, Inc., has been on a prolific run of making news as a cybercriminologist. It began with an April interview in the Kingsville Observer (Canada) titled “OPP major crimes unit to probe racist fake help wanted ad.” From there, Kayser... More

MET Computer Science Department Appoints Cybersecurity Director

Metropolitan College has appointed Dr. Yuting Zhang as director of Cybersecurity programs. An assistant professor since 2011, Dr. Zhang has long played a significant leadership role at Boston University in the important field of security. As faculty coordinator of information security programs, she developed a proposal for a new joint... More