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The American-Italian Cancer Foundation has presented the 'Special Recognition Award' to Gabriella Pravettoni, director of the Division of Psychoncology at the European Institute of Oncology (IEO) and professor of Decision Psychology at the University of Milan. For the first time, the prestigious award is given to a psychoncologist. The award ceremo...

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Between the late 1800s and early 1900s, my great-grandfather Frank Fiorentino was one of 5.5 million people who moved out of Southern Italy to escape the mob, poverty, and disease—and they've been leaving ever since. While tourists flock to Venice and the Amalfi Coast, half of Italy’s small towns are already in an advanced state of abandonment or a...

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The annual event of ISSNAF (Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation), which brings together thousands of Italian scientists, academics, and technologists working in laboratories, universities, and research and innovation centers across North America, began today at the Embassy of Italy in Washington. In opening the event, Italy’...

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“Italy’s focus on biotechnologyshows our aspiration to play a leading role internationally in developing solutions to major global health challenges. In this regard, the relationship with the United States is of strategic importance for Italy: it was here in Washington that, just a few weeks ago, the interim report on the Working Group for the Inte...

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For centuries, scholars have puzzled over the origins of the world’s first writing system. Now, a study by Italian researchers reveals that some of these earliest proto-cuneiform signs may have evolved directly from motifs on prehistoric cylinder seals. The research, published in Antiquity, identified individual symbols carved into ancient Mesopota...

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The number of people aged over 100 in Italy has increased by 30% over the past 10 years, while birth rates have continued to decline. There were more than 22,000 Italians in the age bracket between 100 and 104 in 2024, up from just over 17,000 in 2014, according to a report by national statistics bureau ISTAT on Thursday. The vast majority of them...

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IEEE Life Fellow Gerard J. “Jerry” Foschini, a Bell Labs researcher for more than 50 years, died on 17 September, 2023, at the age of 83. Foschini made groundbreaking contributions to the field of wireless communications that improved the quality of networks and paved the way for several important IEEE standards. In the early 1990s he helped to dev...

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The deadline to participate in the third edition of the “Science, She Says!” prize will expire on January 15, 2025. The prize was established by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and will be awarded to five young foreign female researchers under 40 from as many geographical areas, included the United States. It will be t...

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The annual ISSNAF "Young Investigator Awards Finalists Poster Conference," where award finalists meet with prize presidents and sponsors, will be held on November 14 at the Italian Embassy in Washington DC (3000 Whitehaven Street, NW). The event will begin at 2:30 PM with opening remarks from Italian Ambassador to the United States Mariangela Zappi...

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New York City is consistently one of the most expensive places to live, so it’s no wonder more and more Big Apple residents are packing up their postage-stamp apartments and heading abroad in search of more space for less money. And, if you’re considering pulling a real-life Emily in Paris and escaping to Europe, you might be pleasantly surprised j...

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