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
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