The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition: MAKE IN ITALY. 50 Years of Italian Breakthroughs From the First PC to the First Space-Bound Espresso Machine. Thursday, November 12, 2015, 6pm - Italian Cultural Institute - 686 Park Avenue - New York. RS...

  WTI Magazine #63    2015 June, 27Author : Beth Connolly      Translation by:   The Italian American community is coming together to go to EXPO Milano 2015 this fall! With this year's Italian Heritage and Culture Month theme, "Italian Creativity: Celebrating 50 years of Science and Technology, New York World's Fair 1965 – Expo Milano 2015," it'...

by Alessandro Piol Celebrate the past in order to look at the future knowing that we can do it: Italy can grow again also thanks to its tech ingenuity.   Here are some moments of the panel discussion "What's next for Italian creativity in technology?" moderated by Maria Teresa Cometto and Riccardo Luna, with: Massimo Banzi, co-founder of th...

By Riccardo Chioni Si è svolta ieri al campus del Hunter College nella Upper East Side la cerimonia annuale che precede il Mother's Day, organizzata dal Italian Heritage and Cultural Committee of New York ai piedi della rappresentazione scultorea "Mother Italy", per rinnovare l'omaggio a tutte le mamme. Alla cerimonia ha partecipato il presidente...

Joseph Sciame received the Order Sons of Italy in America's Guglielmo Marconi Award at the organization's biennial convention in August. The award is presented to an Italian American who has made significant contributions to the United States.   Sciame is the vice president for community relations at St. John's University, the president of t...

  WTI Magazine #79    2016 May 13Author : Umberto Mucci      Translation by:   Ciao from Rome! Welcome to the 79th issue of our online magazine. The second tour of presentations of We the Italians – the book has been a big success! Once again I've been lucky to meet a lot of committed successful Italian Americans and Italians recently moved to t...

The Order Sons of Italy in America (OSIA), the oldest and largest national organization for men and women of Italian heritage, elected Daniel J. Longo of Maryland to serve a two-year term as National President during its 54th Biennial National Convention in Bonita Springs, Florida, Aug. 16-23, 2015. He is the former National Director of Client Serv...

by Sr. Camille D'Arienzo   Joseph Sciame. Title: Vice President for Community Relations at St. John's University. Lives in: New Hyde Park, N.Y., and employed in Queens, N.Y., at the university, which is located in the Diocese of Brooklyn. Sister Camille: Mr. Sciame, you recently received Knighthood in the Order of Pope St. Sylvest...

di Filomena Fuduli Sorrentino   We have a challenge in front of us: That of keeping our Italian culture alive in American schools. Is it possible? Yes!- Natalia Quintavalle, Consul General of Italy. (Abbiamo una sfida di fronte a noi: Quello di mantenere la nostra cultura italiana viva nelle scuole americane. È possibile? Sì! – Natalia Quint...

Browsing the web from Italy searching for everything Italian in the USA, attending as many meetings as you can we you go there, talking and chatting with everyone who has something interesting about the Italian community in America, you end up recognizing a few names that constantly recur. Only a few, who - is easy to understand - have dedicated th...