Category: Students

For student profiles, specific student achievements, projects, awards, and activities.

Saving the Planet in a Tasty(?) Way: Eat Bugs

Today, we are highlighting work from students in Steven Finn’s course: MET ML626 – Food Waste: Scope, Scale, and Signals for Sustainable Change. This post comes from Megan Perlman.  With the world’s population forecast to reach nine billion by 2050, food production will have to nearly double to keep up. Yet our planet simply cannot […]

Commonwealth Kitchen: Innovating for a Sustainable, Equitable Food System

Today, we are highlighting work from students in Steven Finn’s course: MET ML626 – Food Waste: Scope, Scale, and Signals for Sustainable Change. This post comes from Sarah Thompson.  If you are in Massachusetts, chances are, sipping on Madhrasi Chai, snacking on GRIA nuts, or dining at Clover Food Lab, you have enjoyed the fruits […]

Student Work Wednesday- Featuring Kelly Fernandes

This week we’re highlighting the work of Gastronomy student Kelly Fernandes.  Kelly completed a project in which she created a summer program for the Food Waste course taught by Steven Finn here at Boston University’s Metropolitan College. Here’s Kelly’s vision for the project: In one of my reflections, I spoke about creating a summer program that would […]

Student Work Wednesday- Featuring Nick Lucovich

This week we’re highlighting the work of Gastronomy student Nick Lucovich.  Nick completed this project on food waste in the cruise ship sector for the Food Waste course taught by Steven Finn here at Boston University’s Metropolitan College. A little about the author: Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, Nick Lucovich has a passion for food deeply rooted beyond the […]

Course Spotlight: Food & Museums

Got Food? Got History? Go Public. Food and Museums (ML623), Fall 2023   In Food and Museums (4 cr), we examine food-related displays and programming from museums, living history museums, and folklore/folklife programs, as well as culinary tourism offerings, “historical” food festivals, and food tours. Our goal is to compare different approaches that use food […]