The end of the digging season for Umbra’s Trasimeno Archaeology Field School, took place not under the beating sun in the midst of an olive orchard but rather in the vaulted, frescoed grand hall of a former noble palace in the...
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Authored by Gilman Scholarship Recipient Deandra R. Rosetta Ciao a tutti! I’m Deandra Rosetta, a Native American from Santo Domingo Pueblo, New Mexico, and a Summer 2025 Umbra Institute student. I usually attend the University of New Mexico for Film...
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In our increasingly urban lives, the journey of fresh produce often feels distant and invisible. But right here in the city center of Perugia, residents have created a way to reconnect with the origin of their food through alternative food...
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An opinion piece by Lucia Scotti As a civil engineering student at the University of Connecticut, I knew that studying abroad wouldn’t allow me to take courses in my major. So, I looked for the next best thing: a way...
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The Spring 2025 semester has officially begun! We talked with Dr. Zachary Nowak, our Director, who was excited about the Umbra students meeting their professors. Some Things Change… Zach’s first Arrivals Day was in September 2005, when Umbra welcomed a...
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Umbra professor Luca Gatti is now Dr. Luca Gatti. Gatti, who has taught Italian language and culture courses at The Umbra Institute since the post-Covid reopening in Fall 2021, today successfully defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Barcelona...
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