Category: Academics

Anything relating to classes or school – courses, class projects, graduation, registration,

Portrait of a Young Food Photographer

by Katherine “KC” Hysmith There’s nothing better than food people. It’s a sentiment that I share with our guest lecturer, food photographer Nina Gallant, from our food writing class. This idea is reinforced every week when I meet with my BU gastronomy peers, the food folks at places around Boston, our fabulous professors, and the […]

Congratulating Our January Graduates

Please join us in congratulating our nine January graduates! A perusal of their masters projects reveals the breadth, depth, and diversity of our student interests — from studies of cuisine and identity to food and art to sophisticated, yet practical, resources for food-focused teaching and business endeavors. Lauren Bennett “Baking in God’s Kitchen: Confectionery Production from […]

Final Project: Appliance Cookbooks Exhibit

One of our core classes, Survey of the History of Food, requires students to create a final project or paper for the end of the semester. But this fall, Professor Kyri Claflin took a different approach, encouraging students to design a food exhibit rather than a more traditional research paper. Hear from one of her […]

Open Classes for Spring 2012

Having trouble picking out your classes for next semester? We’ve got just the thing to help you out. There are a number of wonderful courses available for Spring 2012, and the following classes still have a few slots left. Several of these are special topics courses that will not be offered regularly. Check them out […]

Congratulations to our September Graduates!

We know we’re a little bit late, but from all of us in the Gastronomy program, we want to wish congratulations and the best of luck to our September graduates!  Anne Marie Goldberg Final project: “The Culinary Laboratory: Science & Technology in the Kitchen” Kristen Day Shelly Final project: “Recognition of Novel Colors in Fruit-Flavored […]