Umbra Pizza Night!
Feb | 05
Another Umbra Institute pizza night, another success! After a tough loss in the semester's basketball game against ONAOSI, an Italian school, players and fans both tromped through the cold and snow to Il Paiolo, a pizzeria in the center of... Read More
Stained Glass Magic – Internship and Seminar Abroad
Feb | 05
Don’t be fooled. These aren’t paintings...they're stained glass masterpieces. House museum interns from the INIT 350: Academic Internship and Seminar course explored a small treasure here in Perugia called the Studio Moretti Caselli. Established in 1859, the Studio Moretti Caselli... Read More
Welcome Aperitivo
Feb | 05
Taking a break from the Intensive Italian week to get to each other, Spring 2012 students met a the Birraio for the damous Umbra Welcome Aperitivo. This time Birraio added an American touch, and brought out hamburgers! Suffice it to... Read More
Food Studies Program visits Italy’s culinary heartland
Jan | 30
Pellegrino Artusi,who in 1890 wrote Italy's first modern cookbook, had grown up in Emilia-Romagna (a region in the north known for its hearty food) but lived out his adult life in Tuscany's capital, Florence. Despite lots of culinary contributions from... Read More
School Bells Ring
Jan | 25
Students listen to the internship details at Alessi High School. On Thursday and Friday of last week, the students in the INIT 350: Academic Internship and Seminar- Education course visited the two high schools where their internship will take place. They... Read More
Students Pick Up Tips at Travel Workshop
Jan | 24
Umbra staff member Marco Bagli relates an amusing (in retrospect) Ryanair moment during Monday's Travel Workshop. Umbra's largest classroom overflowed with students eager to attend the Travel Workshop on Monday evening. Led by Umbra SIT intern Julia Bourque and staff... Read More