Preparing to Go Home
Sep | 29
Last night marked this semester's Preparing to Go Home Workshop, an hour long session where students are encouraged by staff and those who've "been there, done that" to enter the mindset of what it will be like to go home.... Read More
Student Perspectives: Volunteering with Monimbò
Sep | 29
Both of us Umbra students, Jenna Snelgrove and Emily Pietrzak have always been interested in volunteering. So when the opportunity came up to volunteer at the local fair trade store, Monimbò, we both jumped at it. Neither of us had... Read More
New Food Book by Umbra Visiting Professor
Sep | 28
What do e-grocers, fried Snickers bars at state fairs, and food assembly kitchens have to do with each other? A new book, Culinary Capital, helps us “understand how and why certain foods and food-related practices connote, and by extension, confer status... Read More
New Direct Flights from the Perugia Airport!
Sep | 20
Just in time for gorgeous spring weather, the kind people at the newly-renovated and -expanded San Francesco d'Assisi International Airport (also known as the Perugia airport) have decided to grace us with an enormous number of new destinations. Most of... Read More
Experiencing Italy Through Writing
Sep | 18
Umbra students, faculty, and staff trooped down to l’aula magna – the great hall – of an old monastery in the center of Perugia on April 16 to listen to literary readings by the students of “Italy of the Imagination:... Read MoreFood Studies Program Students Intern At Italian Winery
Sep | 17
Experientia docet is the motto of the Umbra Institute: Experience teaches. Two Food Studies Program students, Julia Rackow (Tufts University) and Kimberly Goldman University of Wisconsin), just finished a month working at the Lungarotti Winery in Torgiano, near Perugia. The... Read More