An opinion piece by Elke Schrenk, Spring 2026 Students in the Food, Environment, and Sustainability (FSE) program concluded the semester with a capstone trip to the Emilia Romagna region. Students visited a number of producers to learn about how regional...
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An opinion piece by Elke Schrenk, Spring 2026 A recap of the Food, Sustainability, and Environment program for a trip to Scuola del Tartufo, where students learned about the process, history, and policy surrounding truffle cultivation. Truffles are a highly...
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An opinion piece by Reyliana Griffin One of the parts of the Umbra Institute that makes it a unique place to study abroad, is the existence of service learning projects in the classroom. The purpose of service learning projects is...
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Less than a year after successfully defending his doctoral dissertation, the Umbra Institute’s Professor Luca Gatti has published it as a book. A Woman at the Center of the Anti-Fascist Struggle The historiography of Italians who fought against fascism...
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The Umbra Institute is delighted to welcome our newest group of students arriving from the United States and all over the world to spend their semester abroad here in Perugia. This historic city will be your home for the months...
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Umbra's new Italian 101 textbook is many things. However, it is for sure not yet another generic Italian grammar textbook. Instead, the Umbra Italian faculty wanted a book tailored on the typical needs and experiences of US study abroad students....
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