Food Studies Program visits Italy’s culinary heartland

Feb | 20

Pellegrino Artusi,who in 1890 wrote Italy's first modern cookbook, had grown up in Emilia-Romagna (a region in the north known for its hearty food) but lived out his adult life in Tuscany's capital, Florence. Despite lots of culinary contributions from... Read More
Umbra Pizza Night!

Feb | 14

Another Umbra Institute pizza night, another success! After a tough loss in the semester's basketball game against ONAOSI, an Italian school, players and fans both tromped through the cold and snow to Il Paiolo, a pizzeria in the center of... Read More
Tour of Perugia’s Rarely Seen Underground

Feb | 13

Text translated from original flyer (attached): Below the soil of Perugia, there exists a city even more ancient than the one that can be admired from the surface: a hidden world where speleology and archaeology become intertwined with history and... Read More
Skiing in Centro!

Feb | 13

Some enterprising young Perugians decided to take advantage of the snow that we got all weekend and go for a ski! Lucky them: local schools have been closed since last Thursday, which allows plenty of time for antics like skiing... Read More
Internship Course Speaks With Leading Goal-Setting Scholar

Feb | 07

Guest Speaker, Professor Edwin A. Locke, discusses “The Case for Induction”, in Professor John L. Dennis’s INIT 350 Academic Internship & Seminar, Psychology. Professor Edwin A. Locke, the world’s foremost scholar in the area of goal-setting research, recently gave a... Read More
New Arrivals and Orientation Video!

Feb | 06

We remade our old Arrivals and Orientation video to reflect some improvements that we've made! This video is accurate for students doing any of our non-Direct Enroll programs for the spring, fall, or summer. Direct Enroll students get here slightly... Read More

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