Thomas Jefferson University’s Class of 2023 comprises doctors, medical practitioners — and a legendary Italian tenor. Andrea Bocelli was awarded an honorary degree at the university’s 199th commencement ceremony on Wednesday in the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall. The ceremony felicitated newly minted graduates from the Jefferson College of Life Scien...

The Casa Italiana Sociocultural Center is pleased to announce its Italian Legacy Summer Grant Archival Project for 2023. We are looking for a capable student (graduate or undergraduate) who is living within the District of Columbia area who will work on an archive project at the Robert A. Facchina Italian American Museum of Washington DC located at...

To bring younger Italians closer to the knowledge of the United States of America, to deepen the study of overseas history, literature and geopolitics, and to foster a constructive comparison between the Italian and American people. These are the goals of the "Alla scoperta dell'America" (Discovering America) project, Promoted by Centro Studi Ameri...

U of A students will soon have the chance to study and experience the culture of food and life in Italy through a new study abroad trip combining hospitality management and human nutrition and dietetics. Designed by faculty in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Science's School of Human Environmental Sciences, the Food & Cultur...

The Consulate of Italy in Detroit has started a new program to bring knowledge about Italy to the schools and libraries in the Consular Jurisdiction (MI, OH, IN, KY, and TN). Consul of Italy in Detroit Allegra Baistrocchi and Pierluigi Erbaggio from the Italian Consulate staff visited the Père Gabriel Richard Elementary School in Grosse Pointe Farm...

The story is probably familiar to those who’ve taken an American or world history course. After the fall of Rome, a dark age descended on Europe until the Italian Renaissance reignited European minds. Those same Italians passed their inspiration to English protestants, who in turn brought ideas to the original 13 colonies in what would become the U...

The voices that have endured from the Classical period describe what life was like in ancient Rome for their authors, who were literate and educated elites. But what about everyone else? One way to learn about life outside the privileged classes is to examine how people engaged with laws and politics, particularly voting. Finding the evidence howev...

On May 18th, B.Energy hosted a delegation led by Professor John Taylor and seventeen students from Wayne State University of Detroit (MI) School of Business, Global Supply Chain Department. The visit to B.Energy gave them a complete overview of the industrial production cycle by analyzing waste management issues and technologies. Particularly inter...

Dear friends, I was about to write this editorial when the flood situation in Emilia Romagna has become dramatic. The photos and videos we see are devastating and make us suffer so much for our brothers and sisters in that beautiful region, where I personally have my roots, although in the part less affected by this horrendous catastrophe. We partn...

Born and raised in South New Jersey, Christian Rafter is a young-man who wears the Italian-American flag of his heritage, proud on his chest. In January of 2022, Christian made the decision to move half-way around the world, to walk in the footsteps of his ancestors, and make a life for himself in Rome. Almost 17 months later, as his initial time s...