Scuola Seeking Part -Time Program Coordinator
We’re hiring a part-time Program Coordinator. Italian language skills are helpful, but not required to apply for this position. To apply, please email resume and references to [email protected]. PURPOSE: This position supervises administrative staff and oversees management of daily school operations. Works closely with administrative staff, teache...
Italian Club hosts Cooking Night for students
Students from all levels of Italian joined the officers of the UW Italian Club on Friday to prepare a four-course meal together. On the menu was a caprese salad, pasta al pesto, duck breast in orange sauce (petto d'anatra all'arancia), and a mandarin sorbet. Everyone pitched in with shelling, peeling, slicing and boiling to get the dinner ready, sp...
Ilaria Cinelli: a young Italian professional with a heart for Mars
Ilaria Cinelli, 31 years old, is the head of an international mission in the Utah desert. This is a perfect environment resembling to the one of the “red planet” Mars, where the experts are getting ready to go. Originally from Florence, Ilaria now lives in Ireland where she is studying for a PhD at the university of Galway. As reported by the Itali...
Mount Saint Michael alum appointed as school’s president and CEO
by Robert Wirsing As the new school year draws near, a Mount St. Michael Academy graduate will now serve as his alma mater's president This past May, the MSMA Board of Trustees named Peter Corritori, Jr. as the school's next president and chief executive officer, which became effective on Wednesday, July 1. Corritori, a Class...
Assistant Professor of Italian at University of Arizona
The Department of French and Italian at the University of Arizona invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor of Italian beginning in Fall 2015. The area of specialization is Italian Cinema, with critical, trans-disciplinary, and/or comparative approaches to film and media studies. A secondary area of experti...
Cristina Dalle Ore: the NASA scientist from Treviso who took part in the New Horizons mission
by Silvia Simonetti A few weeks ago, the NASA mission called New Horizons performed the closest approach to Pluto, the "ice dwarf," unexplored planet in the Solar System. Among the scientists, who are investigating the mysteries of our Universe, are brilliant Italian minds like astronomer and astrobiologist Cristina Dalle Ore, whose f...
Role of Wine in Pre-Historic Italy Revealed
Bice Peruzzi, a doctoral student at the University of Cincinnati presented her findings at the 2016 Archaeological Institute of America/Society for Classics Studies Annual Meeting in San Francisco recently. Bice was studying the burial practices of people who were thought to have inhabited the Central Apulian region, south of Italian peninsula, bet...
Un docente calabrese emigrato promuove l'Italia nelle università americane
Da alunno delle elementari di Gioiosa Jonica, in provincia di Reggio Calabria, a docente d'italiano tra i più apprezzati negli Stati Uniti. Giuseppe Tassone insegna nella Seattle University e nella University of Washington, università pubblica fondata nel 1861 a Seattle, nello stato di Washington. È la più grande del Nord-Ovest americano e...
The La Voce Scholarship
We are going to join The Italian American Club, The Sons of Italy and The Augustus Society in creating a scholarship because, there is a niche not served by the other scholarships. The Italian American Club has a great scholarship program which is open to all college, university and trade school applicants regardless of age and grade (i.e. it is o...
ISSNAF Seattle chapter fall meeting
The ISSNAF-Seattle Chapter fall meeting was just another great success. Almost 100 people gathered to listen to our four amazing speakers and to visit the BAM. After the visit we enjoyed talks form Claudio Mazzola, PhD and Senior Lecturer at the Department of French and Italian Studies at the University of Washington that talked about...
Italian Language and Culture Thriving at La Scuola Italiana di Portland
by Kerry-Lynne Demarinis At the corner of NW 14th and Quimby stands Friendly House, the home of "La Scuola Italiana di Portland's preschool". Parents and preschoolers open the door and are instantly inside an Italian classroom; Italian children's music is playing softly in the background, papers with finger-paint handprints hang on the wa...
“Io imparo l’italiano”: an Italian youth program in Seattle
“L’unione fa la forza”, is an Italian saying for “Strength in unity”, and it was the motto that Magda Codognotto, the director of “Nuovo Centro Italiano”, had in mind in 2013 when she was planning the development of an Italian language youth program called “Io imparo l’italiano”. Magda designed the program to teach Italian to children livi...