Nov | 25
The Little Blue What-To-Do, a local free press guide to Perugia just went live online. Two Umbra students, Frances Walsh and Sophie Schechter, were responsible for the editing of the pages that were transferred from paper to the digital version,... Read MoreNov | 23
University for Foreigners Direct Enrollment student Haley Sciola sat down to chat with a few of the Italian Università di Perugia (UP) students involved with Umbra this semester. Umbra’s partnership with UP allows Italian students to ‘study abroad’ at Umbra... Read MoreNov | 23
It's incredible! It's the first semester that we have done karaoke during Tandem. If you're studying abroad and you want to integrate and learn the language, you need practice. So what a better solution then to do karaoke in Italy!... Read MoreNov | 23
This past weekend, twenty Umbra students and one of their Italian classmates took a whirlwind tour of Florence and Milan with Professor Adrian Hoch’s Leonardo da Vinci course. The first stop in Florence was, fittingly, the historical Bar San Firenze... Read MoreNov | 22
After three months away from the Stars & Stripes, Umbra Institute students who study abroad in Italy are ready for a change away from pizza, pasta, and canoli. Which is why the "Trattoria Americana" tickets have been an easy sell.... Read MoreNov | 21
This Sunday was as unseasonably warm day for November in Umbria, a day with not a cloud in the sky and perfect sun. The twenty students participating in the Food Studies Program, as well as a contingent from Connecticut College,... Read More