May | 31
This past Friday a group of Umbra Institute students (here with their professors from Trinity College) took an outing to Cortona. In addition to getting a beautiful view of the valley and of Lake Trasimeno, the students were able to... Read MoreMay | 24
Yesterday was a perfect day for a traipse around Perugia's historic center and about thirty Umbra students did just that, taking Umbra staff member Zach Nowak's nearly world-famous "Perugia Nooks & Crannies Tour." The tour started at the iconic Fontana... Read MoreMay | 19
Volcanic eruptions had made the weather here in Perugia spotty but the Umbrian sun smiled on the new crowd of Umbra Institute students, whohad their Orientation yesterday in the main room of Perugia's beautiful fourteenth century town hall. Most of... Read MoreMay | 12
The Umbra Institute is putting all the chairs in order in the classrooms, preparing for Orientation and the first week of Survival Italian for the new students. The planes landing at Rome's Fiumicino Airport on the 16th of May will... Read MoreMay | 05
For a few days after the official departure date there were still some Umbra students around Perugia: you'd see them having their last panino con pollo at Ciao Ciao's, or on the Steps, soaking up some Umbrian thermonuclear radiation (sun).... Read MoreApr | 28
Every American study abroad program has computers, digital projectors, and a server, but the Umbra Institute, lead by IT expert Mauro Renna, has leapt into the 23rd century. After having read an article on new forms of electromagnetic reception (actually... Read More