The Spring 2015 Group Has Landed!
Jan | 15
Balmy temperatures (for January) greeted Umbra's Spring 2015 group during their arrival on Sunday. After being met by Umbra staff in Rome, students took private buses to Perugia. At Hotel Gio just outside the city center, students received orientation packets... Read MoreUmbra Celebrates International Education Week
Nov | 13
This week the Umbra Institute will be celebrating International Education Week. Started in 2000 as a joint initiative between the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education, International Education Week is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits... Read MoreWalking in the Footsteps of his Ancestors
Nov | 03
Fall break: a time for Umbra students to take a much needed breather from the rigors of academia. While many students set off to various corners of Europe to explore the unknown, see the sites and meet friends, Santa... Read More
Food Studies Program Alum Shines—And Eats!
Sep | 29
Brad Jones—accomplished food activist, academic and author—can trace his passion for food directly back to the History of Food and Culture in Italy course he took at Umbra Institute. Brad arrived in Perugia dead set on a career in the... Read MoreOlive Oil Workshop
Sep | 29
Study abroad in Italy means learning both inside and outside the classroom walls. Yesterday night Professors Simon Young and Zachary Nowak took students participating in the Umbra's Institute's Food Studies Program to the cleverly-named Osteria a Priori (located in Via... Read More
Sustainability Students Bring RepEAT to School
Sep | 27
On Monday, students of Sustainability and Food Production in Italy conducted a workshop about food waste, introducing the RepEAT project to 50 high school students of Liceo Classico Annibale Mariotti in Perugia. Umbra students explained the social, environmental and economic... Read More