Pizza Party – Raymond Hogler – Italy 2007
In 2007, I spent a semester teaching at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy. I understood at the outset that students were competent in English and I would be teaching in that language. It wasn’t quite so easy. My students generally didn’t speak any better English than I did Italian. It was a problem. […]
Thank You for My Italian Year – Anya Farion – Italy 1988
Being awarded a Fulbright Grant to carve marble for a year in the town of Pietrasanta, Italy was a dream come true for a sculptor like myself. The situation was ideal; one was able to learn from and be inspired by the Italian craftsmen and the international community of artists who come from around the […]
In Memoriam: Maria Bentel
Maria Azzarone Bentel grew up in Queens, New York City and attended Hunter College High School. She went on to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and completed the Bachelor of Architecture program in 1951 as one of four females in her class. After graduation, she received a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship for 1952-1953 and studied at the […]
Startup Project – Out of Scratch / AUSicily.it – Sami Basha – Italy 2014
Establishing the American University of Sicily as a Laboratory for Innovation. I have been leading an effort to establish the American University of Sicily out of scratch. What can be differently? AUSI is not a commercial enterprise. It is first and foremost, an institution of higher learning and research. As a private nonprofit university association, […]
Divine Fulbright – Debra Cheverino – Italy 2004
I am a conductor and Fulbright Alumna. As Fulbright grantee in 2004, I had the opportunity to study with renowned conductor Zubin Metha in Florence. Ever since I was six years old I dreamt of coming to Italy to study and perform music. In 2001, I was given that opportunity when I was invited to the International Conducting Competition […]
Italy, Architecture, and The Vietnam Veterans Memorial – Paul Spreiregen – Italy 1954
Italy is an encyclopedia of architecture and urban design, the reason I wanted to live there and experience first hand those works that stand as living testimony to its many centuries of creativity. Its then contemporary works of architecture – this was the 1950s – were no less instructive and they, along with the treasures […]
Maria Xenia Wells Zevelechi – USA 1955 & Italy 1991
For my last two years at the University of Pisa, a professor from the University of Texas, Dr. Warren Roberts was a Fulbright Exchange Professor at the University of Pisa. He liked my work and asked me to come back to the University of Texas upon completion of my doctorate. Which I did, even though […]
The Best of Times – Missie Hodges Schaefer – Italy 1990
Fulbright afforded a Latin high school teacher with two college kids the opportunity to see and experience everything that is usually on the pictures of her Latin textbook. Since I was in the sixth grade, I was inspired by my teacher to want to see Italy. There are not enough words to describe what a […]