Is there such a thing as Italian food? The answer, Samantha Dell’Imperio said, is a little complicated. Italian food, like many traditional cuisines is a fusion of cultures, she said, partly due influences from the number of Italy’s conquerors, from Muslims in the 800s to the Normans from western Europe through the 1100s. This is one slice of a who...

Seton Hall is well-known for its faculty and students who win Fulbright Scholarships to study in other parts of the world, but the Fulbright Program also offers highly competitive grants to bring scholars from other countries to the United States to pursue their research. This semester (Spring 2023) Claudio Staiti of Italy is in residence at Seton...

2023 marks the 75th Anniversary of the Fulbright Program in Italy. The U.S. – Italy Fulbright Commission will celebrate this milestone by selecting projects of Fulbright Alumni who have given their contribution to U.S. – Italy relations.  Selected projects will be awarded during the annual meeting of Italian and U.S. Fulbright grantees in June 2023...

October 28 2022 Transatlantic Investment Committee in Washington, DC

The Italy-U.S. Cultural Exchange Commission (Fulbright Commission) announced the new contest in Political Science and International Relations, in memory of Amb. Egidio Ortona, which offers graduate students enrolled in Ph.D.s in Italy the opportunity to implement research projects at a U.S. university chosen by the candidates themselves. The exchan...

On Thursday, the 6th of October from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm, The American University of Rome will host Rome's leading organizations concerned with delivering American degrees, both here and in the United States. Alongside representatives from AUR's faculty, staff, and admissions team will be colleagues from Education USA, Fulbright Italy, St. John's Un...

Florida Polytechnic University leaders have solidified an agreement with the U.S-Italy Fulbright Commission to provide educational opportunities between the University and Italy, the school said in a news release. A memorandum of understanding will allow Italian scholars to conduct research at Florida Poly and work with the University’s faculty and...

On 10 June, after a break of more than two years, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) welcomed Fulbright students and researchers to the event that it traditionally holds for Italian scholars leaving for the United States and their American counterparts who are approaching the end of their studies in Italy. Now in...

Giovanni D'Antonio will be the protagonist of the opening ceremony of Procida Italian Capital of Culture 2022: the young man, just 18 years old, will give a lectio magistralis in front of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella today, the opening day of the long event that this year comes to Procida. Giovanni D'Antonio, just turned 18 and a...

On December 3, Ambassador Mariangela Zappia and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, Matthew Lussenhop, opened the seminar titled “Fulbright Fellows’ Contribution to the Fight against Covid-19” hosted at the Embassy’s Auditorium in Washington DC in occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Fulbright Prog...