Learn a Language by Making Memories: Teaching through Tiramisu
Feb | 26
Representatives from each team present their TiramisuIn Italian, there is a popular saying “Sapere è diverso da saper fare”, or “knowledge is different from ability”. With this idea in mind, it is important to note that an interactive teaching method,... Read More
Writing and Sharing: Umbra Student Organizes a Creative Works Night in Italy
Feb | 24
Sophie Panetti shares her purpose for organizing the Creative Works Open-Mic nightWhen Sophie Panetti, a student from Gustavus Adolphus College, came to study abroad in Perugia, Italy, she decided to make her mark on the community by organizing a student-run... Read More
Umbra Professor Publishes His Latest Book on the Power of Imagery
Feb | 19
Umbra Professor Alessandro Celani, Ph.D., recently published, Victima.Words and Forms of Murdering. Throughout his book, Celani’s research, narrations, and photography seek to unveil the deepest relations between the act of being dominated by images – producing them, sharing them, and... Read More
Studying Business in Italy
Feb | 16
Students tour Listone Giordano International Business students learn quickly that cultural differences impact business markets and that what one country’s culture seeks, is never exactly the same as that which another culture expects. For this reason, when business students choose... Read More
What it Means to Build a Community in Italy
Feb | 10
Fall 2015 student design for Terrace project. Photo by Raymond LorenzoStudying abroad in Italy means becoming a part of the local community and cultivating an intercultural connection with locals. For this reason, contributing to the evolution of the local community... Read More
Umbra Student Tackles International and Comparative Education
Feb | 02
Sarah Fuller, a student in Early Childhood and Special Education as well as International Studies from Elizabethtown College, chose to attend the Umbra Institute during the Fall 2015 semester to complete a self-directed research project. Sarah’s research is to be... Read More