Local chapter kicks off for Italian scientists in Los Angeles
Promoting networking and cultural, scientific, academic, and technological cooperation between the US scientific community and public and private organizations in Italy. This is the goal of ISSNAF (Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation), a nonprofit organization that connects more than 3,000 scholars, researchers, and technolo...
New study examines Leonardo da Vinci's experiments on gravity
Half a millennium after Leonardo da Vinci explained gravity, engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) discovered that his understanding of the phenomenon – while not entirely accurate – was centuries ahead of his time. Despite limited tools, the great Italian thinker displayed ingenious problem-solving. In an article just publi...
Confessing Myself: My Italian American Journey In Ethnic, Feminist, And Queer Studies – Santa Clara U, Mar 2
In “Confessing Myself: My Italian American Journey in Ethnic, Feminist, and Queer Studies,” Mary Jo Bona explores the ongoing interrelation between her work in Italian American literary studies and larger questions about canon-shaping in U.S. literature. Mary Jo Bona is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Stony B...
Call4INNOVIT Acceleration Program
The Italian Innovation Centre in San Francisco at INNOVIT is inaugurating Call4INNOVIT, an acceleration program designed for innovative startups and SMEs. Applications are open now. The first Call4INNOVIT specializes in Artificial Intelligence, Metaverse technologies, and Cultural and Creative Industries. The goal is to help boost the success of It...
Two Italian robots in the world avatar challenge
The Italian Institute of Technology of Genoa was the only Italian institution to participate in the global robotic avatar challenge Ana Avatar X- Prize, held Nov. 4-5 in Long Beach, California. At the Convention Center 17 teams, from 10 countries around the world and selected out of 99 teams, competed for a cash prize pool of $8 million, provided b...
ISSNAF BAC Talks Series - Nov. 2022
Tuesday, Nov 15, 2022, 6:30 PM PST. ISSIMI Meccanica 952 Bransten Road San Carlos, CA 94070. The ISSNAF Bay Area Chapter is excited to announce the next BAC Talks event on Tuesday Nov. 15, 2022. Networking and food start at 6:30pm; talks start by 7:30 pm. Join us, meet friends, and enjoy Italian delicacies, around sports and vintage cars! This 10-m...
La Scuola International Silicon Valley Campus Is Now Open
La Scuola International Silicon Valley Campus opened the doors to their students on August 17th and delighted in seeing children enjoy the carefully curated spaces which their teachers have created. Children are enjoying both indoor and outdoor spaces, from classrooms and Art Atelier to garden and soccer pitch. They have already harvested numerous...
San Francisco: the first Italian Culture and Innovation Hub opens
On October 20 2022, the first Italian Culture and Innovation Hub - INNOV.IT, which integrates the Italian Cultural Institute, Agenzia ICE's foreign investment attraction and innovation desks and the new Innovation Center, opened in San Francisco on October 2022: an initiative promoted by our Embassy in Washington and the Consulate General in San Fr...
Ricciardi Awarded 3-Year Digital Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Emiliano Ricciardi, associate professor of music history, has been awarded a three-year, $224,688 Digital Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for his Tasso in Music Project. The full list of grant recipients is available here. Led by Ricciardi and realized in collaboration with Stanford University and a team of s...
Leonardo Awards 2022 – Humanities And Science Award For Early Career Researchers/Scholars
The Leonardo da Vinci Society and the Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation (ISSNAF) Bay Area Chapter are seeking applications for the Leonardo Award 2022. This award was established in 2019 on the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death to recognize the outstanding contributions of Italian/Italian American early career...
Italian Ballplayer Daniel Monti Earns Scholarship to Sonoma State University
Italian native Daniel Monti attended an IABF sponsored college showcase in the spring and landed a baseball scholarship to Sonoma State University in California. Monti played previously at Odessa College in Texas. Last season he hit .352 in 39 games with 4 home runs, 35 RBI, 37 runs scored and 11 stolen bases. One of IABF’s key missions is to prov...
Science and Culture Merge Around Food in Italy
Food Science and Italian Studies represented by Anuradha Prakash and Federico Pacchioni, respectively, joined efforts this summer to launch a new Chapman travel course to Italy. In exploring the food system from farm to fork, students witnessed directly the making of world-renowned products such as Parmigiano Reggiano and Prosciutto di Parma, acco...