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Ever been “Storrowed?” Stuck in a truck under the unusually low-clearance bridges of Boston’s Storrow Drive? If you have, you know that it can be a pretty major inconvenience—but not as great of one as a full renovation of the city’s parkway would pose.
Supply Chain Lecturer Peter Mayer was recently interviewed by The Daily Free Press concerning the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, telling the student-run paper, “These political, social things that we call ‘risk’ have actually created more opportunity” for future leaders in the industry.
In recognition of her ongoing support and mentorship of students pursuing futures in innovation, Metropolitan College Senior Lecturer Dr. Megan M Trainor won the Henry Morgan Award at Innovate@BU’s 2026 Innovators’ Night.
Congratulations to BU MET Senior Associate Dean Lou Chitkushev, who has been named to the Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Analysis Oversight Council by Attorney General Andrea Campbell, where he will help oversee the budget of the agency tasked with “promoting a transparent and equitable healthcare system across the Commonwealth.”
“AI is pushing finance education to more closely resemble modern practice: data-driven, model-based, and explicitly ethical.” Read the fascinating interview with BU MET Professor of Finance Irena Vodenska as she examines the role of AI in finance education, and the critical issues it raises like bias, fairness, systemic risk, skill erosion, and academic integrity versus authentic learning.
Congratulations to Food Studies & Gastronomy Director Megan Elias, whose recent book, “Queers at the Table: An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food (with Recipes),” was named a Lambda Literary Awards finalist, in the LGBTQ+ Anthology category.
How does one best fund a city? And how do leaders balance policy trade-offs? New York City has long had a policy of making parking largely free, but as Mayor Mamdani considers his options amid a budget shortfall, that could change. As City Planning & Urban Affairs Lecturer Terrance Regan explained in a recent interview with CNBC, the city could raise near to $1.5 billion dollars if it adopted paid parking meters.
Following research conducted at MET’s DSLab, and spinning out of coursework from the supply chain management capstone course, MSSCM graduate Ruthairut Wootisarn (MET'24) and MSABA graduate Jingran Xu (MET'23), both current PhD candidates, worked with Associate Professor of the Practice John Maleyeff to author a paper on “simheuristics” and how they can be used to improve public transport repair.