Language Study by MET Professor Upends Traditional Development Theories
After completing a study of 31,845 individuals with language impairments, Dr. Vyshedskiy’s new work proposes that instead of a linear trajectory, where children acquire one grammatical rule at a time (which is what is commonly believed today), humans over time evolved to three different language comprehension phenotypes: syntactic language, modifier language, and command language.
Could Neanderthals Speak? Science Supports Argument, Adjunct Professor Says
Whether or not homo sapiens’ evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals, possessed and utilized verbal language is an ongoing debate in the scientific community. What answers we have can be found via the converging fields of neuroscience, linguistics, primatology, and paleoanthropology—which happen to be the academic specialization of Dr. Andrey G. Vyshedskiy. Vyshedskiy—who teaches biology to MET […]
Commencement Season Comes for Prison Education Participants
Steven Correia (MET’19) is something of a unique variety of Metropolitan College alum—he earned his Bachelor of Liberal Science in Interdisciplinary Studies from BU while at MCI Norfolk, as part of the MET Prison Education Program. After 37 years of incarceration, Mr. Correia takes deep satisfaction from the achievement of his degree, which will be […]
Alum Sings BU Prison Education Program’s Praises
For over forty years, the MET Prison Education Program has offered incarcerated individuals in the Massachusetts prison system the opportunity to pursue undergraduate study. Jose Bou (MET’08) earned his Bachelor of Liberal Science in Interdisciplinary Studies through the program, and recently spoke with NPR about his experiences. “It’s like being released every day. The teachers […]