Wine Tasting 101
Sep | 30
Last Thursday, Umbra students attended a wine tasting at a local Perugia enoteca. The professional sommelier, Silvia Bartolini, demonstrated how to use our sense of smell, taste, and sight to examine a wine’s quality and age. Students sampled three types... Read More
Zumba at Umbra
Sep | 30
Last week, one of Umbra's talented students, Ciera Kalnoski, invited her fellow classmates to a Zumba class. She led 16 eager participants through a series of catchy choreography to latin dance music in one of the school's classrooms. Zumba, a... Read More
Internship Course Speaks With Leading Goal-Setting Scholar
Sep | 30
Guest Speaker, Professor Edwin A. Locke, discusses “The Case for Induction”, in Professor John L. Dennis’s INIT 350 Academic Internship & Seminar, Psychology. Professor Edwin A. Locke, the world’s foremost scholar in the area of goal-setting research, recently gave a... Read More
New Arrivals and Orientation Video!
Sep | 30
We remade our old Arrivals and Orientation video to reflect some improvements that we've made! This video is accurate for students doing any of our non-Direct Enroll programs for the spring, fall, or summer. Direct Enroll students get here slightly... Read More
Video from Perugia’s Underground
Sep | 30
Our good friend and Tuttoggi.it correspondent Nicola Palumbo went on the underground tour of Perugia this past Sunday and filmed his experience for Tuttoggi. We saw it this morning and were blown away: there's great video from under the Duomo... Read More
The Aperitivo Workshop (Food Studies Program)
Sep | 30
Two nights ago the students participating in the Food Studies Program's core course on the History and Culture of Food in Italy had their first cu-curricular food workshop. These workshops, each focused on a particular food or beverage, pr ovide... Read More