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NIAF’s Ambassador Peter F. Secchia Voyage of Discovery Program provides all-expenses-paid, two-week tours in Italy for Italian American college students. Trip Date: June 2019. Trip Destination: NIAF’s 2019 Region of Honor. Application Deadline: Friday, February 1, 2019, 11:59 p.m. PT. Applicants Notified: Friday, March 1, 2019. Applicant Acceptance...

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Do you know an outstanding student? Share the National Leadership Grant Competition with them! Apply for one of these scholarships today: General Study Scholarship; Henry Salvatori Scholarship; Italian Language Scholarship; National Italian American Bar Association (NIABA) & Sons of Italy Foundation Scholarship; Special Scholarships. Learn More & A...

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Virginia Elena Carta, an easy-to-like Italian with a brain as big as her heart, will leave Duke University next spring with so much more than a national championship ring. College golf doesn’t have the allure it once did. The best players skip it altogether. The next-best generally stay for a season or two. Those who experience the kind of first-ye...

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While working on this teacher diversity series, we visited one of the schools in the city with an all-white faculty, A.S. Jenks in South Philadelphia. What we found was a school that in many ways is a model of diversity. Its principal is black, and the student body comes from all over the world. Its teachers, nearly all of them native white South P...

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The University of Calabria’s "Italian Diaspora Studies Seminar" is pleased to launch a new residential Writing seminar on the topic of Cultural Heritage and Memory. It will take place from May 15thto May 29th, 2019 in the National Park of Mount Pollino, with several planned field trips in the surrounding areas of Calabria and Basilicata, including...

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Organised by the US-Italy Fulbright Commission, the US Department of State and the Embassy of Italy, the conference was attended by Italian Ambassador Armando Varricchio, US assistant secretary of state for Education and Cultural Affairs, Marie Therese Royce and executive director of the US-Italy Fulbright Commission Paola Sartorio. Both Varricchio...

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Boulder Journey School feels different from most other child care centers almost as soon as you walk through the door. In the hallways, there’s a kid-sized mail-sorting station, a giant metal spaceship trimmed with white and green lights, and a child-designed memorial for the school’s chickens, who were killed by raccoons a few years ago. Preschool...

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Una carriera iniziata prestissimo, grazie ad una passione che esiste da sempre. Lorenzo Cerrai ed il calcio sono praticamente una cosa sola: si sono sempre accompagnati, in differenti zone d'Italia ed ora anche negli Stati Uniti d'America grazie a College Life Italia. Curiosità, coraggio e voglia di scoprire nuove culture e vivere nuove esperienza...

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Melinda Harris has been taking a trip to Italy every summer for several years. But it wasn’t until she began studying Italian at School Amici that she started to enjoy it in a different way. “Until I learned Italian, I don’t think I really appreciated the culture,” she says. For seven years, Harris made the one-hour drive from Wilmington to the sch...

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Food and wine, culture, Made in Italy make all things Italian an American obsession. Additionally, in the U.S., at least 25 million people are of Italian descent, as estimated by the two key Italian American organizations. Nevertheless, this passion does not correspond to the linguistic reality of Italian in the States. According to a study publish...

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