Announcing the 2017 Inductees and Honorees
The National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame is proud to announce inductees and honorees for the 40th Annual Induction & Awards Gala to take place at a dinner on Saturday, November 18th, at the Westin Chicago River North. Last year’s Sportsman of the Year award recipient, Eddie Greco of Greco and Sons, will chair the dinner. The program will b...
NIAF on Campus
In order to address this absence, NIAF has created NIAF on Campus, a NIAF Italian American Leadership Council (IALC) Fellow Program. It is our hope that this initiative will answer several important questions: How can NIAF be a resource to existing groups on campus? How can the Foundation create efficiencies, unify their efforts, and bring them tog...
Leonardo DiCaprio to play Leonardo da Vinci in new biopic
Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio is all set to portray the leading artist and intellectual of the Italian Renaissance Leonardo da Vinci in an upcoming biopic. The film marks DiCaprio’s ninth project in which he plays a real life character. In his last film The Revenant, DiCaprio portrayed frontiersman, Hugh Glass, the role which won him the be...
Lisa Scottoline on building a career and a life with Italian American values
In this episode of The Italian American Podcast, we talk with Lisa Scottoline, New York Times bestselling author and Edgar award-winning author of 29 novels, including her latest work, Exposed:A Rosato & DiNunzio Novel. In our Stories Segment, Anthony talks to Zachary DiIonno, events director for the Friends of Italy Society of Hawaii, about how he...
Premio della Farnesina per ricercatori e "startupper" italiani all'estero
Il Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, a sostegno del programma di promozione integrato e del collegamento tra il mondo della ricerca e quello delle imprese, intende promuovere la seconda edizione del Premio della Farnesina per ricercatori e "startupper" italiani all'estero che piu' si sono distinti nel contesto del P...
Joe Tacopina: “Venezia FC Will be a Giant of Italian Soccer”
A successful Italian American lawyer with a great passion for soccer. Joe Tacopina opened the doors of his office in Manhattan (New York) to Calcio e Finanza to talk about his goals with Venezia and his commercial and sport strategies. Joe is a goal oriented professional, someone who understands where he needs to be because, “this is something real...
NIAF Congratulates Lewis M. Eisenberg on His Confirmation as Ambassador to the Italian Republic
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) congratulates Lewis M. Eisenberg on his confirmation to be ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States to the Italian Republic. “On behalf of the National Italian American Foundation, we want to extend our congratulations to Lewis Eisenberg, confirmed by President Trump to serve...
Due italiani impiantano il primo esofago artificiale. Salvato un malato di cancro
Un esofago ‘bioartificiale’ è stato immesso per la prima volta al mondo su un malato di tumore negli Stati Uniti. L’intervento è avvenuto 3 mesi fa e il paziente, un cittadino statunitense di 75 anni, sta bene. Il merito dell’impresa è di due ricercatori italiani che da tempo lavorano negli Stati Uniti: Fabio Triolo, direttore del Nucleo terapie ce...
Joseph Bologna, Actor and Playwright Known for ‘My Favorite Year,’ Dies at 82
Joseph Bologna, an actor, writer, and director known for his role in 1982’s “My Favorite Year” and for his long collaboration on stage and screen with wife Renée Taylor, has died after a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 82. Bologna died Sunday morning at City of Hope in Duarte, Calif. Just last month, Bologna attended a 35th anniver...
Pesaturo powers to world record with 32 hours on accordion
Cory Pesaturo, Cumberland’s accordionist extraordinaire, has scored quite a win in his lifelong bid to gain attention for the underappreciated instrument: He’s now a world record holder. The only person to ever win a World Championship on acoustic, digital and jazz accordion, Pesaturo played the accordion from 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 4 to 6:44 p.m. on A...
Lo chef siciliano Roberto Toro alla 2a edizione della Settimana della Cucina Italiana negli USA
Dopo aver deliziato il palato dei leader del G7 a Taormina - rappresentando i sapori e gli odori della incommensurabile cucina siciliana con un menù a base di tortelli ripieni di basilico e pecorino siciliano in salsa di gambero rosso di Mazara, trancio di dentice con pomodorini, capperi e basilico accompagnato da un cestino di verdure e patate al...
Macaroni, Gravy and Breast Cancer: A Meaningful Collison in Honor of my Italian Heritage
A symbolic collision of my birthplace, my Italian heritage, and my advanced-stage breast cancer diagnosis in 2004 occurred more than 60 years after my birth. I was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, the second of four children to Antoinette and Stephen Marcucci. My maternal grandmother and paternal great grandparents said ‘arrivederci’ to their famili...