Culinary Institute of America Launches Italian Cuisines Concentration
Future chefs and food business leaders studying at The Culinary Institute of America can now immerse themselves in an academic concentration in Italian cuisines and culture that includes a 15-week study trip to Italy. The concentration for students pursuing CIA bachelor's degrees in management features a semester abroad at the Castello di...
Two college scholarships offered by Italian-American police group
All high school seniors in Erie and Niagara counties are invited to apply for the two annual college scholarships offered by the Italian-American Police Association of Western New York, the group announced Wednesday. Applications for the Erie County Deputy Sheriff Robert S. Insalaco and the Buffalo Police Officer David J. Scime scholarship...
Learn Italian on a gondola ride in Central Park
Sip Italian wine in Central Park on a Venetian Gondola and enjoy an Italian lesson from a native Italian teacher! Price: $60 per student (maximum 5 students) - Reservations required. Fridays at 5pm - 'Conversational' level italian Also available on Thursdays at 7pm -'Everyday Italian Phrases' Placement Tests: Because the Italia...
La storia "invisibile" degli ebrei italiani in America, terra non ancora promessa
By Gianna Pontecorboli Giorno della Memoria come spunto di riflessione per andare più lontano e ridefinire molte pagine della storia degli italo-americani? Questa è la sfida che Fraser Ottanelli ha lanciato al Calandra Italian American Institute della City University di New York durante uno degli eventi newyorkesi dedicati al ricordo della Shoah....
Jasper Educators Finds "Sea of Good" in Seedy Italian Suburb
Melissa Witkowich '16 was taken aback when she and a group of her Manhattan College classmates pulled into Scampia, Italy — an area just north of Naples — and were greeted by a mass of teenagers banging on their van with sticks. They weren't angry, insists Witkowich, but overcome with joy to have visitors, which are a rarity given the city...
Italian Identity in the Third Millenium - Symposium September 19
The symposium "Italian Identity in the Third Millennium" is a continuation--a sort of inter-mission-of the last three symposia ILICA, the Italian Language Inter-Cultural Alliance, has sponsored on the topic. After two events last fall and a third this past spring in Rome, ILICA concludes this discussion in November. This event, in the mean...
Italian and Italian-American Studies at Queens College
by Anthony J Tamburri Join Queens College's world-class faculty and graduate programs for a unique opportunity in Italian Studies at the graduate level in the United States! The Department of European Languages and Literatures at Queens College offers three different Programs in Italian and Italian-American Studies. Students may enroll in...
La Scuola d'Italia Hosts 2015 Benefit Dinner
It was a record-breaking night for La Scuola d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi, with over 500 guests celebrating the night's theme "Building the Future Today". John Michael Viola, President and Chief Operating Officer of NIAF, was honored. He praised the school for being the only school where a child can learn "not only the Italian language but they'll le...
Italian language world-wide: a rapidly evolving situation, where is it heading?
Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 Hours: 6PM Venue: Italian Cultural Institute - 686 Park Avenue- New York, NYPaolo E. Balboni, Director of the Venice University Research Centre on Italian as a Foreign Language Italian language world-wide: a rapidly evolving situation, where is it heading?In October 2014 the Italian government organised a co...
Savoy Royal Family Visits New York City for 19th Annual Savoy Foundation Charity Ball for Earthquake and Hurricane Victims
On December 10, 2016, at The American Foundation of Savoy Orders' 19th Annual Benefit Gala, "Ballo di Savoia" (Savoy Ball) in New York City, guests of honor - HRH Prince Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy, HRH Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia and Azaea Beatrice Reyna di Savoia - together with 300 patrons, benefactors and guests, raised funds for victims of It...
Assemblyman Lentol Announces Collegiate Scholarships
Assemblyman Joe Lentol announced this week that the New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators is now accepting applications for four $2,000 scholarships to be awarded June 9th at their Annual Legislative Conference Day. "The cost of attending college is increasing every year, every opportunity must be made by Brooklyn stude...
St. Francis College student and Queens resident to receive NIAF Michael Gargiulo scholarship in New York City
Alexa Castelluccio of Astoria, N.Y., who attends St. Francis College in Brooklyn, N.Y., will receive the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) Michael Gargiulo Scholarship in Broadcasting and Communications. NIAF Board of Director Nicholas R. Caiazzo will present the scholarship to Castelluccio during the Foundation's New York Golf Kick-...