Students and staff at Assumption University lived and studied at Villino Dufault, the university’s Rome campus, for an entire semester during which they were immersed in cuisine, art and culture Italian. The small group of students and staff, which returned to the United States last week, were the first group to spend a semester abroad in more than a year.

“With the pandemic, many students had not been on the Assumption campus the year before, and so many students wanted to be back in Worcester and so it really took, I think, a special group to want to go to Rome, ”said Maryanne Leone. , professor at the Assumption and one of the staff who joined the students in Rome this year.