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The Paolo Busti Cultural Foundation Scholarship Awards Dinner will be held on Wednesday, June 7 at 6 p.m. The Foundation is excited to be able to celebrate its heritage together. It promises to be a wonderful evening of friendship, pride and of course a delicious Italian food, it will be hosted at Batavia Downs.  Tickets are $35.00 and may be purch...

The Enrico Fermi Educational Fund of Yonkers will hold its 60th Annual Scholarship Breakfast on Sunday, May 7, 2023 at Mulino’s at Lake Isle in Eastchester. The event begins promptly at 9:45am. We are proud to announce that we will be honoring The Yonkers Honor Guard who have graced us with their support and presence over many decades. Scholarship...

Join us Tuesday, May 16 at the Columbus Citizens Foundation (8 East 69th Street, New York, NY) for a lecture by Cav. Dr. Gilda Rorro, who will discuss her long-standing dedication to education, civil rights, and the development of educational materials highlighting the many facets of Italian American heritage that are essential elements of American...

Under the watch of Professor Raffaele Marchetti, the key word is “internationalization.” Today he is Pro-rector at LUISS Guido Carli University and works tirelessly to build relationships between the Roman university and foreign countries.  He was recently in Latin America and Canada, and now he has arrived in New York. We met with him at the Unite...

Two upcoming events co-hosted by Fordham’s Italian Studies program and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures will offer students and the public an opportunity to engage more deeply with the memories of millions of Italian immigrants across the world. Both groups will welcome Margherita Ganeri, Ph.D., an award-winning visiting scholar f...

The Roman statesman and scholar, Marcus Tullius Cicero, once famously wrote to ancient Rome’s leading garden and agriculture expert, “If you have a garden in your library, we will want for nothing.” The Union community will dig into the past to cultivate meaning and belonging in a modern space as part of a three-year project, “Ancient Roman Gardeni...

The FIERI Scholarship Fund was established in 1985 to enable and encourage gifted students of Italian American origin to pursue their educational goals and has already provided more than $100,000 to a number of talented young men and women. The goal is to encourage students and young professionals to continue to promote and preserve the Italian and...

New York State Sen. Joseph Griffo, R-C-Rome is encouraging area high school seniors and current college students to apply for the 2023 New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators Academic and Athletic Scholarships. This year, the Conference is awarding academic and athletic scholarships in the amount of $4,000. Applicants should have...

Angelo Devito, a professor in the electrical and computer engineering departments for the past 44 years, just wants his students to be successful. That’s why he does what he can to relate to his students and form a relationship with each and every one of them. Devito is a self-described “traditional” man who wholly believes in wearing a tie to work...

On Wednesday, Feb. 15, the Archdiocese of New York announced that at the end of the 2022-2023 school year, 12 of their Catholic Schools would be closed due to the financial instability that was further worsened by the pandemic. A report from the Catholic News Agency stated that the following are the schools that will not reopen after the 2022-2023...

Queens College (City University of New York) is a public institution enrolling more than 19,000 students and serving New York City’s highly diverse and global population. The Confidential Executive Assistant will report directly to the Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs and will be an integral part of the smooth operation and overall succ...

The Beacon school board will create a committee comprised of board members, district administrators, students and members of the public to decide whether to rename Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples’ Day on school calendars. President Meredith Heuer said during its Jan. 9 meeting that the board had received 70 emails after announcing in the fall th...