È ancora l’America la meta più ambita dagli studenti
Gli studenti stranieri regolarmente iscritti nei college e nelle università degli Stati Uniti sono incrementati dell'8 per cento nell'anno accademico 2013-2014, fino a raggiungere la cifra complessiva di 886,052 iscritti, rivela il report Open Doors on International Educational Exchange del 2014, reso pubblico oggi a Washington. Il numero...
Call for Papers for 2016 Annual Conference on "Migrating Objects: Material Culture and Italian Identities"
MIGRATING OBJECTS. Material Culture and Italian Identities April 28-30, 2016JOHN D. CALANDRA ITALIAN AMERICAN INSTITUTEQueens College, City University of New York25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor (between 5th and 6th Avenues), Manhattan In Helen Barolini's multigenerational, women-centered novel Umbertina (1979) the journey of a woven...
OSIA honors Sciame
Joseph Sciame received the Order Sons of Italy in America's Guglielmo Marconi Award at the organization's biennial convention in August. The award is presented to an Italian American who has made significant contributions to the United States. Sciame is the vice president for community relations at St. John's University, the president of t...
Carnival Finalizes Contracts to Build Five New Cruise Ships at Fincantieri
A big weekend for the world's largest cruise company as Carnival Corporation finalizes contracts with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri to build five new cruise ships costing more than $3.4 billion. The final order adds a fifth ship to a memorandum of agreement between Carnival and Fincantieri announced in December 2015 calling for the construction...
Cormant, Inc. Expands DCIM Reach in Italian Market with New Partner, Connect di Gennaro Lettieri
Cormant, Inc., a data center infrastructure management (DCIM) pure-play expert, today announces a new Italian partnership with Connect di Gennaro Lettieri, led by a veteran of DCIM and IT infrastructure, Rino Lettieri. The partnership allows Cormant to advance its efforts in the Italian market, the same market that yielded local and global-scale de...
Working to preserve Italian pride
It's almost Columbus Day but you would never know it in certain parts of the country. In many cities, and even whole states, Columbus Day has been replaced with "Native American Day", or "Discoverer Day" as has happened in Hawaii, Alaska, Oregon and South Dakota. Other states are forced to authorize the holiday although they don't celebrat...
Jersey Boys - Clint Eatswood & cast interview
From director Clint Eastwood comes the big-screen version of the Tony Award-winning musical "Jersey Boys." The movie covers the life and career of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. Frankie celebrated his 80th birthday this month as he continues to perform and entertain audiences. The film tells the story of four young men from the w...
Latest Census reveals sizeable increase in Italian-Americans
by Ross Hinds Fairfield, New Jersey is the most Italian place in the United States according to the United States Census Bureau, whose latest numbers came out earlier this month. Just more than half of residents — 50.3 percent — of its 7,475 residents claim Italian ancestry. Less than a percentage point behind, at 49.5 percent, i...
NIAF and Brooks Brothers together to help
NIAF is excited to announce that Brooks Brothers has partnered our Foundation to help aid victims of the recent devastating earthquake in central Italy. Starting today, Brooks Brothers will accept donations at its 260 stores across the United States. All donations will go to NIAF's Italian American Relief Fund. Through its nonprofit organi...
Mohawk continues global growth, expands distribution into Italy
North American's largest privately owned manufacturer of fine papers and specialty substrates announces distribution and launch events with Paper & People in Milan [Cohoes, NY – November 11, 2013] Mohawk, North America's largest privately-owned manufacturer of fine papers, envelopes and specialty substrates for commercial and digital print...
Goodfellas reunited! Stars of Martin Scorsese's classic gangster movie attend special 25th anniversary screening to close the Tribeca Film Festival
by David McCormack The stars of Martin Scorsese's classic 1990 gangster film Goodfellas reunited in New York on Saturday night for a very special 25th anniversary screening of the movie which brought the 14th annual Tribeca Film Festival to a close. Stars Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino were all in attendance...
Cittadinanza per matrimonio: da lunedì domande online
Da lunedì prossimo, 18 maggio, cambia la modalità di presentazione delle domande di conferimento della cittadinanza italiana ai sensi degli articoli 5 e 9 della Legge 91/1992. Ad interessare i connazionali residenti all'estero è solo l'articolo 5 (cittadinanza per matrimonio), visto che l'articolo 9 riguarda il conferimento della cittadinanza agli...