“Is the Pope Catholic?”
Apr | 06
“Is the Pope Catholic?” is a sarcastic response to what seems to be a rhetorical question, but the answer to the question “How Catholic is Italy?” is not quite so obvious. In Professor Jim Schwarten’s Contemporary Italian Culture and Society,... Read MorePhoto of the Month
Apr | 02
Umbra's Spring 2007 Photo of the Month contest rounds out its season with a photo from Trieste, in the north of Italy. It was taken by Dashiell Davis from Arcadia University and is titled "Double Take in Trieste." Dashiell wins... Read MoreThe Unbearable Lightness of Bread
Mar | 23
Leavening wasn’t the only topic yesterday during the Bread & Pasta Workshop, part of Professor Peter Fischer’s Food Cultures course. The workshop – one in a series of three – makes for a more hands-on academic course. Students learned about... Read More
Goodbye Dinner for Tandem Friends
Mar | 22
After almost three months of weekly Wednesday Tandem meetings, attendance is still high. Last night a great group of Italian and Umbra students met to enjoy a nice buffet of pizza and pasta, at a local dive the Zibaldone.While in... Read MoreTravel Adventures
Mar | 19
Finland, a place of oddities and wonders, and the beginning of my spring break. While in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, I saw many a thing, but only a few are noteworthy. First and foremost, it is a city similar... Read More
Discovering Leonardo
Mar | 19
This weekend the Leonardo da Vinci class went on an exciting trip to Florence and Milan in order to get a closer look at several of Leonardo’s works. Friday, the brave Mauro Renna and Academic Director Dr. Carol Clark escorted... Read More