Italian American Cultural Club holds luau, to award memorial scholarships at Monday’s meeting
The highlight of the Italian American Cultural Club’s June 5 meeting was a Hawaiian luau with the meal featuring a roasted pig with all the trimmings and entertainment provided by Tuika’s Polynesian Island Magic. The entertainers celebrated members’ birthdays and taught several members the hula dance. The club’s hula hoop winners were Theresa Copp...
Ciao and change
Next year, Oregon State University will be undergoing some changes in their language department. While there are multiple different ways to say hello, there are just as many ways to say goodbye. This next academic year, Oregon State University will be saying goodbye to a small handful of second-language course opportunities that have previously bee...
Scuola Italiana Announces New Board of Directors President, President Emeritus, and Board Members
Scuola Italiana di Portland announces the appointment of Alessandra Gardino Montgomery as board president and Robert Morse, Sally Hudson, and Melissa Egizio Slechta as new board directors. Departing president and founding member, Grazia Solazzi, has been named Founder and Board President Emeritus for her significant role in establishing and leading...
Scuola Italiana to Launch First Italian Language Kindergarten Program in Oregon
On September 5, 2017, the Italian School of Portland will officially open the doors on its new, Italian language kindergarten program. It is the first such program in the state of Oregon. Classes will be held at the school’s NW Portland location, 1542 NW 14th Ave, which also houses the preschool and playgroup programs. The half-day program is Mon...
Scuola Seeking Part -Time Program Coordinator
We’re hiring a part-time Program Coordinator. Italian language skills are helpful, but not required to apply for this position. To apply, please email resume and references to info@scuola.us. PURPOSE: This position supervises administrative staff and oversees management of daily school operations. Works closely with administrative staff, teache...
Italian Club hosts Cooking Night for students
Students from all levels of Italian joined the officers of the UW Italian Club on Friday to prepare a four-course meal together. On the menu was a caprese salad, pasta al pesto, duck breast in orange sauce (petto d'anatra all'arancia), and a mandarin sorbet. Everyone pitched in with shelling, peeling, slicing and boiling to get the dinner ready, sp...
Ilaria Cinelli: a young Italian professional with a heart for Mars
Ilaria Cinelli, 31 years old, is the head of an international mission in the Utah desert. This is a perfect environment resembling to the one of the “red planet” Mars, where the experts are getting ready to go. Originally from Florence, Ilaria now lives in Ireland where she is studying for a PhD at the university of Galway. As reported by the Itali...
Mount Saint Michael alum appointed as school’s president and CEO
by Robert Wirsing As the new school year draws near, a Mount St. Michael Academy graduate will now serve as his alma mater's president This past May, the MSMA Board of Trustees named Peter Corritori, Jr. as the school's next president and chief executive officer, which became effective on Wednesday, July 1. Corritori, a Class...
Assistant Professor of Italian at University of Arizona
The Department of French and Italian at the University of Arizona invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor of Italian beginning in Fall 2015. The area of specialization is Italian Cinema, with critical, trans-disciplinary, and/or comparative approaches to film and media studies. A secondary area of experti...
Cristina Dalle Ore: the NASA scientist from Treviso who took part in the New Horizons mission
by Silvia Simonetti A few weeks ago, the NASA mission called New Horizons performed the closest approach to Pluto, the "ice dwarf," unexplored planet in the Solar System. Among the scientists, who are investigating the mysteries of our Universe, are brilliant Italian minds like astronomer and astrobiologist Cristina Dalle Ore, whose f...
Role of Wine in Pre-Historic Italy Revealed
Bice Peruzzi, a doctoral student at the University of Cincinnati presented her findings at the 2016 Archaeological Institute of America/Society for Classics Studies Annual Meeting in San Francisco recently. Bice was studying the burial practices of people who were thought to have inhabited the Central Apulian region, south of Italian peninsula, bet...
Un docente calabrese emigrato promuove l'Italia nelle università americane
Da alunno delle elementari di Gioiosa Jonica, in provincia di Reggio Calabria, a docente d'italiano tra i più apprezzati negli Stati Uniti. Giuseppe Tassone insegna nella Seattle University e nella University of Washington, università pubblica fondata nel 1861 a Seattle, nello stato di Washington. È la più grande del Nord-Ovest americano e...