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The Italian Academy invites applications for positions in its Fellowship Program, which will be devoted to the conservation and preservation of heritage and the contemporary destruction of art and architecture. Topics relating to the political uses and abuses of cultural heritage as well as to the exchange, transport, and trafficking of objects wil...

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By Scott Brandenburg   Fourth-year Oakridge volleyball coach Kim Hanson was looking forward to the 2015 season knowing it could be one of the best teams at Oakridge in quite some time. Then Hanson saw Stefania Garofolo warming up on the first day of tryouts, and she grew even more excited.   Garofolo wasn't a player Hanson was or...

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by Anthony Julian Tamburri   This three-week summer program at the University of Calabria (Arcavacata di Rende) is now in its third edition. The Seminar takes place June 12–30, adiposity 2017 and is designed to introduce participants (doctoral students and professors) to cultural studies of the Italian Diaspora from a variety of academic pers...

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by Sarah Nolan   Several Italian Studies students received accolades at the Ho-Ho-Kus Board of Education meeting on May 5, celebrating their hard work, dedication and passion for the language and culture.   Seventh graders Julia Arscott, Alexandra Galgano and Rachel Scrivanich were awarded by the Coccia Foundation – an organization th...

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By Mauro Battocchi   Have you stopped by the Italian Cultural Institute recently? If not, now is a good time because you'll find some high quality art on display. And not just any art, but art that is directly inspired by the Italian landscape.   Each summer, Academy of Art students and faculty live in Italy for seven weeks and immers...

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At the beginning of the semester, I asked myself: Which is better, America or Italy? The answer came to me a while ago, and even though I get the feeling it won't be surprising, this is a good time to reveal it.   Getting to know Italy was just like getting to know new people. At first it might be hard to imagine them with any serious proble...

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Vicky Oakes, supervisor of elections, invites eligible college students to apply for one of three $1,200 scholarships through the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections a statewide, professional organization of the 67 Supervisors of Elections offices throughout the state of Florida.   The organization will award three $1,200 s...

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The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (SLLC) at the University of Maryland in College Park invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Italian and Film Studies beginning in Fall 2015. The area of specialization should be Italian Cinema with a strong interest in global and tr...

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Si chiama Emanuele Ceccarelli lo studente del liceo Galvani di Bologna unico italiano ammesso per il prossimo anno accademico al prestigioso Massachusetts Institute of Technology, una delle più importanti università al mondo.

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Linda LeMura was born in 1960 in Syracuse, New York. Her parents moved to New York from Catania, Sicily, and settled in an Italian neighborhood – called the North Side – in Syracuse. Linda's parents stressed the importance of education and family to their children. She took their guidance to heart, and she received an athletic scholarship for...

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