UGA to create dual master's degree with Italian university
by Mollie Simon Since its founding in 1222, the University of Padua, or the Università degli Studi di Padova in Italian, has been home to countless experimenters, including Copernicus and Galileo. Soon, University of Georgia students will be able to conduct research at this same institution. By the end of 2015, UGA and University o...
Italian Company Building Its First Wind Project, Located Near Des Moines
Italy-based Building Energy, a multinational company operating as Global Integrated IPP in the renewables industry, is building its first wind energy project, located north of Des Moines, Iowa. The company has begun the second phase of construction for the 30 MW, $55 million project, which is scheduled for completion by the end of 2016, accord...
The Italian Way: Addressing the Italian Stereotypes, Myth 16 - Part 3 - Land of Poets …
WTI Magazine #74 2015 December 11Author : Elda Buonanno Foley Translation by: I am looking forward to discussing this topic while continuing the conversation based on the famous line already mentioned [See Part 1 and Part 2 in the previous editions of the magazine]("A people made of artists, poets, saints, philosophers, scientists an...
Giuseppe Rossi: “The one that got away” still comes home for Christmas
By Charles Boehm US Soccer Players - Giuseppe Rossi is back in the USA, and even on holiday, he manages to find the net. It's a warm, rainy night just before Christmas at the Chelsea Piers sports complex on the east bank of the Hudson River. The New Jersey native has been calmly watching rec-level soccer and posing for photos for near...
Pursuing Our Italian Names Together, Chapter 22, Milwaukee
We are Pursuing Our Italian Names Together, Chapter 22. We are also known as and the Italian Family History Club at the Italian Community Center and Milwaukee County Genealogical Society's Italian Area Interest Group. Our next meeting will be held on Saturday, January 16, 2016, at the Italian Community Center, 631 E. Chicago Street, Milwaukee,...
Angelo Castanza Jr. elected president of CIAO
Angelo Castanza Jr. took over as president of the Calabresi in America Organization at CIAO's annual installation dinner in November. Castanza was brought into the organization in 2001 by the indefatigable Joe Bruno. Once involved, he was hooked. "It is the one place other than my family where I feel I completely belong," he explains....
6 Movies To Help You Get To Know Famous Italian Men
by Carlotta Magnanini Sometimes it just takes a couple of hours—the duration of a movie—to understand how mysterious mechanisms work, in this case, we mean Italian. In the history of Italian cinema, both past and present (not much has changed anyway), there are a few movies that can offer us a real identikit to give us more insight into th...
From Italy with cheese: Sister city delegation visits Fairbanks
by Sam Friedman Fenano, Italy, and its sister city in Alaska have more in common than a link to the prospector who discovered gold here in 1902. There's also hockey, industrial sprockets and parmesan cheese. This week, Fairbanks hosted seven guests from Fenano, including town mayor Stefano Muzzarelli, his tourism minister and several...
Lupinacci attends presentation on combating discrimination in Higher Education
Assemblyman Chad A. Lupinacci (R, C, I – South Huntington) attended a February 24 forum dedicated to combating discrimination within the higher education system. Speakers at the forum, which was sponsored by the New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators, of which he is a member, discussed the discrimination Italian immigrants faced...
A Year Later, O4W Pizza Is Home to the Hottest Pie in Atlanta
Anthony Spina opened O4W Pizza inside Irwin Street Market in January 2015. Over the past year, the New Jersey native has managed to forever change Atlanta's pizza obsessions by bringing us the Grandma pie, now one of the city's most crave-worthy examples of the form. Eater recently sat down with Spina to talk about his successful first yea...
Mother Angelica healed at ‘Miracle House’ when she was Canton teen
by Suzanne Stratford Mother Angelica was known to millions of viewers as the keen-witted, straight-talking Catholic nun, but in Canton, Ohio, she's remembered as a local girl who grew up to make their city proud. Born Rita Rizzo on April 20, 1923, she was by all accounts a kind-hearted Italian-American girl. At the age of 19, she experienced...
Italian greats Sir Bruno Serato and Sophia Loren meet for the first time
Saturday proved to be an extraordinary day for one of Orange County's most beloved residents. Humanitarian Sir Bruno Serato, who founded a nonprofit that feeds 6,000 underprivileged Southern California children each week, was invited backstage to meet his idol, screen legend and Oscar winner Sophia Loren, who had just finished a one-woman performan...