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Sixteen high school juniors from public schools in New York, Los Angeles and Detroit are heading to Florence, Italy, for a fully funded, monthlong immersion in Renaissance art, history and culture — an experience that organizers describe as a potentially life-changing opportunity. The students, along with four teacher-chaperones, are this year’s re...

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  Art Nouveau Week 2025: Celebrating Italy’s Belle Époque The best bread award in Italy this year goes to Sicily Protecting workers from extreme heat: Italy's new workplace safety protocol ORACLE: Italy’s mission to extract oxygen from moon dust The Italian cities where life and work feel most rewarding DOP Tourism: a new model for travelling in It...

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Wine is big business in Washington state, the second-largest wine producing state in the nation, with an economic impact of more than $10 billion. But how do you keep an industry vibrant, growing and influential decade after decade when challenges such as drought, pest management and wildfires are becoming more disruptive? The answers might lie wit...

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A newly cemented partnership between Mississippi State University (MSU) and the Pontifical University Antonianum (PUA) will create more study-abroad opportunities for local students seeking an education in Italy, and vice versa. MSU President Dr. Mark Keenum and Professor Agustin Hernández Vidales, the rector of the Rome-based higher learning insti...

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The Italian American Cultural Organization of the South Shore has announced the winners of the 2025 IACO “Spirit of Italian Culture” Scholarship. According to a community announcement, six students have each received a $3,000 scholarship after a competitive selection process. The recipients are: - Natalie J. Pechilis from Whitman-Hanson Regional Hi...

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For years, Italy has faced a growing crisis: a shortage of doctors and major challenges in replacing them as they retire. In response, after 25 years, the country has overhauled the admissions process for medical, dental, and veterinary schools. A new law has eliminated the selective entrance exams and replaced them with a new system: an open first...

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Assemblyman Ed Ra (R-Franklin Square) today presented the Assemblyman James D. Conte Memorial Academic Scholarship to Marco Valle, a senior at New Hyde Park Memorial High School and the school’s Class of 2025 valedictorian. The scholarship, awarded by the New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators, recognizes outstanding academic ach...

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  Italy and the heat: fifty years of rising temperatures The financial wealth of Italian households surpasses €6 trillion in 2024 Rome’s public transit offers free digital library with books, audiobooks, and music Even robots will fly: actually they're already doing it, in Italy Taranto and its black gold: the story of the cozza tarantina Wishew, t...

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A magnificent new piece of artwork has made its way from Carlentini, Sicily, to Omaha, Nebraska—a vivid painting of Santa Lucia (Saint Lucy) created by 14-year-old artist Martina Piccione. Originally sent rolled in a box alongside dozens of letters for school aged children intended to travel 5,000 miles across the ocean, the painting was meant to s...

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The Amerigo Vespucci Society (AVS) of Long Branch (NJ), the nation’s oldest Italian-American mutual aid society, awarded four academic scholarships during its most recent meeting, continuing its longstanding mission of supporting education and community engagement. The scholarships, to be applied toward the recipients’ upcoming Fall semester studie...

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