Marblehead Rotary welcomes Italian exchange student
Marblehead — This past Thursday, July 18, the Marblehead Rotary Club welcomed Silvia Venini, a short-term, summer exchange student from Italy. As part of its student exchange program, Rotary District 7930, which covers most of Eastern Massachusetts, has year-long and short-term summer exchange programs for local high school students with a nu...
Apply to the Armenise-Harvard career development award 2015 (cda)
The Giovanni Armenise – Harvard Foundation is pleased to announce it will be offering a CDA to a promising young scientist, currently not in Italy, to contribute to the creation of new areas of research in the biological sciences in Italy. The Giovanni Armenise – Harvard Foundation's mission is to make it possible for young, newly independ...
Assumption College President Francesco Cesareo recognized for contributions to Italian heritage
By Michael D. Kane Assumption College President Francesco C. Cesareo is being recognized as a leader in preserving Italian culture in Massachusetts. Cesareo has received the Italian Heritage Month Committee's "Leadership in Education" award. Cesareo received the award Oct. 1 during the kick-off to Italian Heritage Month in t...
Medford High School Italian Students Awarded Scholarships
Complimenti, Joshua Crespo and Leena Ziane! The two Medford High School AP Italian students were awarded $1,000 each in scholarship money at the Federazione Associazioni Abruzzesi – USA gala last week. The event, held at Filippo's Restaurant in Boston's North End, was one of several Italian-American Heritage Month celebrations highlig...
E' arrivato "Tutti in Classe"! Numero 6!
The recent podcast of school news of the Italian Consulate in Boston has reached the 5th episode by now. Its name is Tuttinclasse! (It means "Go to class!") It is produced by the Educational Office of the Consulate General of Italy in Boston and it can be listened on your own cell phone or computer. In just a few minutes, you'll hear last school a...
Fellowships for Masters in Italian at Boston College
Boston College Department of Romance Languages and Literatures invites applications for the M.A. programs in Italian Studies. The department is committed to the professional formation of students, who graduate with broad experience in the analysis of literary texts, media and the arts, and strong pedagogical training and practice. We expect an inco...
Sicilian sensation: Italian exchange student stars as rookie kicker for Central Catholic
By David Willis Stefano Calvagno knew that somewhere, in some form, someone was playing a sport known as football. "I was aware that there was a sport called football somewhere in the world," he said in his native Italian accent. "But that was all that I knew. I had never seen a game. It's like cricket. I know that someone pl...
Silk scientist Fiorenzo Omenetto
Fiorenzo Omenetto works with silk all day (and apparently a lot of nights, too), but he does not make clothes, not even invisible ones, contrary to rumors triggered by a journalistic exaggeration published a couple of years ago and quickly spread around the world. Yet, thanks to a fascination with this natural material — discovered at the...
FELLOWSHIPS for MA in ITALIAN at BOSTON COLLEGE
The Boston College Department of Romance Languages and Literatures invites qualified students to apply to the Master of Arts program in Italian Studies. The department is committed to the professional formation of students, who graduate with broad experience in textual and cultural analysis including a strong component of visual literacy and film,...
Birthday bash celebrates Ovid and Sulmona
Boston celebrated the 2,000th anniversary of Publio Ovidio Nasone's birth in style. On March 17, a group of students from the Abruzzese town of Sulmona (Ovidio's birthplace) held a special presentation at Filippo Ristorante in the North End, where over 100 representatives of the community gathered to hear more about the Certamen Ovidianum Sulmonens...
Register for "State of the Discipline: Italian Studies in the Early 21st Century" - Symposium at Wellesley College, October 1 - 2016
The Department of Italian Studies at Wellesley College, the Educational Office of the Italian Consulate in Boston, and MITA (Massachusetts Italian Teachers Association) are pleased to invite you to attend the: State of the Discipline: Italian Studies in the Early 21st Century. The first symposium, organized by Wellesley College in 2009, began...
Pittsfield UNICO Chapter Scholarships
The Pittsfield Chapter of UNICO recently held its scholarship awards ceremony at the Italian American Club in Pittsfield, in conjunction with the Paul J. Capitanio Jr. Memorial Football Scholarship award ceremony. Since 1987, the Pittsfield UNICO chapter has given out more than $238,000 in scholarships throughout Berkshire County. The cere...