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... More
Culinary Arts Alumni Open “Comedor” in Newton
As reported in the Boston Globe, Jakob and Fernanda White have recently opened their Chilean-American restaurant, Comedor, in Newton. The couple met at Boston University in 2008 while completing the Certificate Program in Culinary Arts. Fernanda earned her Master of Liberal Arts in Gastronomy at MET in 2009, and also... More
Advertising Professor Quoted in Courier-Journal
Christopher Cakebread, a Boston University College of Communication professor who specializes in sports advertising and who teaches in the master’s program in Advertising, is quoted in the article “Shoe Companies Pay Millions for Walking Ads,” which appeared in Louisville’s Courier-Journal: “When you sponsor a team, you've got essentially six or... More
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... More
Master of Urban Affairs Graduate Receives City’s Public Service Award
Master of Urban Affairs alum Dion Irish (MET’07), who serves as executive director of Boston’s Office of Fair Housing and Equity, received a Henry L. Shattuck Public Service Award from the Boston Municipal Research Bureau. The annual award celebrates the city’s most dedicated workers, such as Irish, who was recognized... More
MET Alumna Receives City’s Public Service Award
Alumna Annie B. Wilcox, a community services officer with the Boston Police Department (District B-3, Mattapan), was recognized for her work in the community with a Henry L. Shattuck Public Service Award from the Boston Municipal Research Bureau. The annual award goes to the city’s most dedicated workers. Officer Wilcox is... More
Advertising Professor Cakebread Quoted in USA Today
Christopher Cakebread, a Boston University professor who specializes in sports advertising and who teaches in the master’s program in Advertising, was quoted in a USA Today article on recent NFL scandals and the power of advertising dollars from the league’s largest advertisers and sponsors—such as Anheuser-Busch. “We are not yet... More
Security: Changing the Game with Jennifer Lesser Henley
On September 4, 2014, the Director of Security Operations at Facebook, Jennifer Lesser Henley, spoke at Boston University to discuss the state of cybersecurity. In her talk, Lesser Henley discussed the delicate balance of maintaining a high level of security without impeding Facebook’s usability. She offered helpful tips for Facebook users, More
Stirring up a New Generation of Globe Food and Wine Correspondents
Beth Wittenstein, a student in the Gastronomy master’s degree program at MET and a correspondent for the Boston Globe, authored the September 9, 2014, article “Doughnut hybrids storm into Chicago.” Wittenstein is one of many students and alumni of MET’s Gastronomy and Culinary Arts programs who were featured in the... More
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
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... More
MET Health Informatics Faculty Key Organizers of ICIW 2014
On September 20, ICIW 2014: the Fifth Immunoinformatics and Computational Immunology Workshop was held in Newport Beach, California, on the theme “Bridging Immunology and Computer Science.” The organizing committee of the international workshop included three faculty involved with MET’s Health Informatics program: Associate Dean Lou Chitkushev, director of Health Informatics;... 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
Kitchen Fashion with Lisa Falso
Apron enthusiast Lisa Falso, who is supervisor of culinary arts programs at MET, was quoted in the Boston Globe article, “Aprons inspire a jump-start in the kitchen.” Falso—who has a growing collection of more than forty aprons—says: “I’ve always loved fashion and there’s not much you can do for fashion... More