USA: la National Science Foundation premia tre progetti di ricerca con team italiani
Si è conclusa la selezione dei progetti scientifici internazionali presentati alla sesta edizione del programma PIRE, Partnerships for International Research and Education, organizzato dalla National Science Foundation (NSF) degli Stati Uniti. Tre, dei tredici progetti vincitori, integrano team di ricerca italiani. Ad ogni progetto, arriveranno fin...
Mario Ciampa Passes Away
Mario Ciampa, 83, beloved husband of Lucille (Galante) Ciampa, passed away on Sunday, June 25th, at Winchester Hospital following a brief illness. He died peacefully, surrounded by family and loved ones. Born in Sulmona, Italy, he is the son of the late John and Angela (Valeri) Ciampa. Mario grew up in Sulmona, a historic city nestled in the mounta...
Giorgio’s on Hillview to replace Mercato
Giorgio’s on Hillview is replacing the former Mercato Pizzeria & Bar (previously Ocean Blues, The Table, Zoria) and is expected to open in mid-July. Co-owners Giorgio Guastella, who was proprietor of Mercato for the past year, and Elena de Luca, both native Italians, have given Michael Garey “carte blanche” as operating consultant in redoing the en...
17th Annual Italian American Summer Festival hits Fairgrounds in Berea
Is there a better way to pasta time away? The 17th Annual Italian American Summer Festival rolls out 25 vendors serving up an eclectic list of ethnic cuisines, including a wide range of Italian favorites, from pizza to lasagna, pasta, gelato, cappuccino and cannoli and biscotti. Whoa, check out that pasta eating contest on Sunday. The long-running...
AmCham Italy nomina Letizia Urbani nuova rappresentante locale
Le relazioni economico commerciali tra Marche e Stati Uniti al centro dell'incontro tenuto nella sede regionale organizzato dalla Camera di Commercio americana in Italia AmCham Italy in collaborazione con tutte le Camere di Commercio e le Associazioni di Categoria delle Marche. Nel corso dell’ iniziativa è stata nominata la nuova rappresentante loc...
NIAF Mourns the Passing of Former Executive Director of NIAF Alfred Rotondaro
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) mourns the sudden passing of Alfred Rotondaro, the former executive director of NIAF, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and a leading figure in the Italian American community. “On behalf of our Board of Directors and our entire NIAF family, I can say this is a loss that is being felt...
Amore e una giusta cattiveria: ecco la ricetta delle eccellenze italiane in Usa
Trecento imprese distribuite in 284 stand su una superficie di quasi 8.000 metri quadrati, un premio che per la prima volta viene assegnato negli Usa e un numero record di visitatori: sono le cifre del Padiglione Italia al Summer Fancy Food Show 2017, la più grande fiera del Nord America dedicata alle specialità food&beverage che si è conclusa il 2...
The Italian American Writers Association 2nd Saturday Reading Series 2017
July 8 (Saturday) 5:45 - 7:45 pm The Italian American Writers Association 2nd Saturday Reading Series. Actress, screenwriter and essayist Marianne Leone will read from her second memoir, Ma Speaks Up, published this year by Beacon Press. Peter Carravetta, the D'Amato Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies at SUNY/Stony Brook University,...
Now is the time for an Italian-American museum exchange programme
One of the most consequential art news stories of 2015 was the appointment by the Italian Ministry of Culture of 20 new museum directors leading institutions as large as the Uffizi in Florence and Capodimonte in Naples to smaller places like the Paestum Archaeological Park and National Gallery of the Marche in Urbino. When the appointment process s...
Festival dei Due Mondi inspires Spoleto, Italy
The Festival of the Two Worlds celebrates its 60th edition this year in the Summer of 2017. The festival takes place from June 30 to July 16 in Spoleto, Italy. It is a celebration of summer music, opera and dance. The idea behind the “two worlds” part of the name came from founder Gian Carlo Menotti. He had hoped that the festival would be a juxtap...
Acton student receives travel grant
U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas and the leadership at the National Italian American Foundation announced that John Bellotti, of Acton, a student at Adelphi University, received a travel award through NIAF. Bellotti is one of 20 college students from across the nation who will participate in the Ambassador Peter F. Secchia Voyage of Discovery Program, an all...
Cibo italiano in America, ovvero il top ricercato dai “foodies”
Il noto critico d’arte internazionale Francesco Bonami nel suo ultimo libro L’arte nel cesso: da Duchamp a Cattelan, ascesa e declino dell’arte contemporanea, nella maniera provocatoria che lo contraddistingue, afferma che l’arte contemporanea è ormai arrivata al capolinea, proprio, con il “cesso a 18 carati” dell’italiano Maurizio Cattelan, espost...