Italian Teacher Needed At Ford Elementary, Redwood City
Starting its very first class in January 2020, La Scuola dei Piccoli is one of the few realities in Redwood City and San Mateo County with the goal of teaching the Italian Language and Italian Culture to K-5 students through fun activities, play, and more traditional lessons. As we are ramping up our efforts, we are looking for someone to help us t...
The Italian Executioners: Italy and the Holocaust, 1943-45.
Almost 8,000 Jews were deported from Italy during the Holocaust and killed in Auschwitz. About half of them were arrested by Italians: members of the fascist party, police and military forces. Informing was widespread, often motivated by greed and turning in next-door neigbours. In the postwar period the role of Italians in the genocide fell mostly...
Food and Culture: An Italian Perspective – Get Your Ticket Today!
Don’t miss the fifth edition of the Italian Perspective series. This year, Food and Culture: An Italian Perspective will be a thought-provoking celebration of Italian food culture, featuring talks by influencers, scholars and chefs, access to a tasting pavilion from local Italian restaurants and food producers. A lively schedule of presentations, c...
Leonardo Award 2020
The Leonardo da Vinci Society and the Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation (ISSNAF) Bay Area Chapter are seeking applications for the Leonardo Award 2020 . This award was established in 2019 on the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death to recognize the outstanding contributions of Italian/Italian American early caree...
Andra Bucci, Holocaust Survivor, Visits Middle Schoolers
On Jan. 27. 1945, Andra Bucci watched the Red Army liberate the Auschwitz concentration camp. Now, 75 years to the day, Andra recounted that moment and other harrowing personal stories of surviving the Holocaust with her sister during a two-hour talk with our middle school students on Jan. 27. Valentina Imbeni, head of school, and Lorenzo Ortona, I...
Fulbright Research Fellowship at the ICSI a Berkeley: il 3 febbraio scadono i termini per l'anno accademico 2020/2021
Scadono lunedì 3 febbraio 2020 i termini per partecipare al bando del Fulbright Research Fellowship in Computer Science che si terrà presso l’International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) di Berkeley nell’anno accademico 2020-2021. La Fellowship è stata istituita dalla Commissione per gli Scambi Culturali fra l’Italia e gli Stati Uniti e l’Intern...
Spotlight on the academy: Kevin Petti, Ph.D.
Kevin Petti, Ph.D., is an alum of the University of San Diego, earning his doctorate in 2006. Dr. Petti is also a dual U.S./Italian citizen, college professor, textbook coauthor, and president-emeritus of the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society. Dr. Petti teaches anatomy and physiology, human dissection, and health science at San Diego Miramar Col...
Tenure-track position -- Assistant Professor in Transnational Italian Studies
The Department of French and Italian at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the area of “Transnational Italian Studies.” The expected start date is July 1, 2020. We solicit applications from scholars of Italy with a primary research interest in transnat...
Walter G. Vincenti, engineer who helped make supersonic flight possible, dead at 102
Walter Vincenti, professor emeritus of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University, laid the engineering groundwork for flight at the speed of sound and helped develop the more efficient swept-wing airplane design still in use today. Vincenti died in Palo Alto on Oct. 11 of complications from pneumonia. He was 102. “Walter is probably one o...
Fireside Chat with Diego Piacentini and Luca Maestri
Join Italian Community Services and La Scuola International School for a Conversation with Diego Piacentini, formerly Senior VP at Amazon and Luca Maestri, CFO at Apple moderated by Sheila Pierce Ortona discussing their stories from Italy to America. This is an excellent opportunity to listen the story of two tech industry leaders while learning ab...
On the Town: Caruso Family Foundation awards pair of scholarships
For 10 years, the Caruso Family Foundation has been awarding $20,000 in scholarship funds to local, high school students. This year, Spirit of American youth scholarships went to Hailey Sole from Maranatha High School and Madeleine Ackley, formerly of Notre Dame High School. Both are Glendale residents, and each will receive a $10,000 scholarship....
NBICF Scholarships
NBICF Scholarships are offered to students of Italian Language Studies at SRJC in the Fall & Spring Semesters. NBICF will award three $500 scholarships to students of Italian 1, 2, 3 or 4 for the Fall Semester 2019. The deadline for applying for these scholarships is October 18, 2019. Consideration will be given to NBICF members and to their imme...