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Attention Fall 2008 students: you may think now that you have your passport and study visa that you are finished completing government forms. Consider one more form! During the fall semester, the United States will hold an historic Presidential election....

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L’arrivo!

>If flying into Rome's hectic Fiumicino airport and the move into Perugia are the first hurdles students have to jump, Orientation would be the second. The past two days have been an alternation of Orientation meetings on various themes (housing,...

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Umbra Travel Workshop Strikes Again!

With so many students that come to Europe (for the first time or the fifth!) with plans to travel, the Umbra staff does all it can to prepare them for those inevitable little issues that arise when you’ve just arrived...

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Umbra Professor Presents at Conference

Professor Adrian Hoch will be representing the Institute at an upcoming conference in Paris. Academia is sometimes accused of being mainly scholars who only talk to others in their specific discipline.   Umbra Art History professor Adrian Hoch is part...

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Sustainability of Food Class presents at Nutrition Conference

Students in Umbra's Sustainability and Food Production in Italy course have presented the to-go RepEat box and project at the Nutrition Days conference in Perugia. This multi-day event highlights sustainability and nutrition issues with markets and events throughout the city....

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Roberto, an Italian Umbra alum, on his experience in New York!

This post is guest-written by Roberto, an Italian engineering and architecture student who studied at Umbra in the spring of 2011 and then spent the following fall in New York.  I spent four months in NYC as a guest of...

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