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Villanova Student Wins Arcadia Short Film Contest
Cameron Piper, a Villanova Engineering student, has won Arcadia in Rome‘s Short Film Contest for students currently enrolled at Arcadia University Center for Italian Studies in Rome. Throughout Cameron’s 5 minute video, he highlighted many places he visited including his apartment during his stay in Italy and great sights including the Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps Capitoline [...]
Continue reading...Dr. Davide Tanasi Honored with Teaching Excellence Award
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Dr. Davide Tanasi, Adjunct Professor of Archaeology and Ancient History, has been presented with the Award for Teaching Excellence by The College of Global Studies at Arcadia University. This is the inaugural presentation of the Award, an honor which has been created to celebrate faculty members of The College of Global Studies who are outstanding [...]
Continue reading...Visiting Professor from Roma Tre to Give Two Educational Presentations
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Visiting Professor Aldo Fanchiotti from Roma Tre University will be at Arcadia next Tuesday and Thursday to give two educational presentations. The first, titled “Solar Cooling: Using the Sun’s Heat to Cool Buildings,” will feature two strategies for solar cooling; limiting the thermal load or amount of heat a building absorbs by using “Cool Materials” [...]
Continue reading...Arcadia Students Research Newly Discovered Greek Necropolis
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Two students studying in Sicily with Arcadia, Stephan Hassam from Loyola University and Marisa La Greca from University of Iowa, have earned the rare opportunity to conduct archeological research on a newly discovered site at the Greek Archaic Necropolis of Siracusa. Dr. Davide Tanasi, Adjunct Professor of Archaeology & Ancient History at Arcadia’s Mediterranean Center [...]
Continue reading...CNN Interviews Villanova Students in Rome on the Election of Pope Francis I
Monday, March 18, 2013
Two Villanova University students, Sean Hudgins and Danielle McMonagle, both Communications majors, were interviewed by CNN’s Anderson Cooper in Rome this week as students with a unique perspective on the election of Pope Francis I. Both students are participants on Villanova’s Vatican Internship program and the Arcadia in Rome program. Other Villanova students were active [...]
Continue reading...Dr. Tanasi Invited By Italian Museums to Celebrate Archimedes
Friday, February 22, 2013
The Museum of Science and Technology of Florence will host a scientific international event celebrating 2300 years from the birth of Archimedes, supported by the Capitoline Museums of Rome, the Max Planck Institute in Berlin and the Archaeological Museum of Siracusa. The College of Global Studies at Arcadia University is included in the list of [...]
Continue reading...Accademia Italiana Becomes Bachelor Degree Granting Institution
Monday, February 18, 2013
The Accademia Italiana, with schools in Florence and in Rome, has been officially authorized by the Italian Ministry of Education to offer bachelor’s degree programs recognized by the Italian government. The advancement makes the Accademia Italiana in Florence the only private Fine Arts University in Florence and all of Tuscany that is authorized to offer [...]
Continue reading...Arcadia Partners visit STEM Study Abroad Programs in Europe
Friday, December 14, 2012
For the first time, Arcadia’s Fall Partner Preview – a program dedicated to introducing study abroad staff and discipline based faculty to particular programs — focused on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) study abroad programs. The site visits, which concluded earlier this month, were a great success; demonstrating the programs and resources available to [...]
Continue reading...Arcadia Study Abroad Students Join UN Conference in Rome
Friday, December 14, 2012
Study Abroad Students with Arcadia University in Rome had the unique opportunity to participate in the UN Conference in Honor of International Rural Women’s Day held in Rome, Italy, on October 15, 2012. At the conference, the UN agencies FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization), IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) and WFP (World Food Program) [...]
Continue reading...Arcadia professor in Sicily publishes ground-breaking research
Friday, November 16, 2012
Dr. Giovanni Sturiale, Adjunct Professor of Geology and Volcanology at Arcadia University’s Mediterranean Center for Arts and Sciences (MCAS), has published exciting research a possible water management system from the year 2,000 BC. on the Palagonia area of south-east Sicily. Dr. Sturiale’s research, which appears in the Italian Journal of Geosciences, is titled: Integrated Geological [...]
Continue reading...The College of Global Studies Recent Staff Promotions and Awards
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Dr. David-Hillel Ruben Appointed Regional Director of Great Britain and Ireland Programs Dr. David-Hillel Ruben has been appointed to the post of Regional Director of Great Britain and Ireland programs, based at The College of Global Studies’ new London Center in Bloomsbury. An Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of London, Dr. Ruben holds [...]
Continue reading...Roma Tre Announces Courses in English for its students by Arcadia University
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Roma Tre University in Italy, an academic partner institution of Arcadia University, has announced that courses in English are now available to students of Roma Tre through Arcadia University. This announcement (see below) highlights the successful and close relationship being cultivated by the two universities to enhance international education opportunities for students. The Arcadia University Center [...]
Continue reading...Arcadia University Study Abroad Alumna to join NBC
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Gemma Marie DiCasimirro, an alumna of two study abroad programs with The College of Global Studies and a graduate in 2012 of Arcadia University, has secured a position with NBC-10 Philadelphia. In fall 2010, Ms. DiCasimirro completed the semester program Study Abroad at the Umbra Institute in Perugia, Italy, and in spring 2011 she also participated in Study Abroad at [...]
Continue reading...Arcadia in Rome Students Visit International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM)
Monday, June 18, 2012
Arcadia in Rome students taking “Museum Practices in Rome” were recently featured on the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) website. Throughout the semester, these students explore Rome’s cultural life and consider how collecting is both an anthropological question and a topical matter of national identity. As an [...]
Continue reading...2012 Graduate Commencement & Honorary Degree Ceremonies
Monday, May 14, 2012
The Graduate Commencement and Honorary Degree ceremonies for Arcadia University 2012 will take place on campus on Thursday, May 17 at 5 p.m. (ET). Professor Guido Fabiani, Rettore (President) of our partner Roma Tre University in Italy, will be receiving an Honorary Degree from Arcadia University at Thursday’s Commencement. For those around the world who [...]
Continue reading...Arcadia Professor in Rome publishes article ahead of U.S. lecture Tour
Thursday, April 26, 2012
The College of Global Studies’ Dr. Alberto Corbino has published a key article in the Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO) Newsletter Vol2, Issue 12: The Italian Solidarity Economy’s Slow Revolution. In addition, Dr. Corbino, who is a professor of Economics of Organized Crime and Social Innovation at the Arcadia University Centre for Italian Studies in Rome, continues to garner increased [...]
Continue reading...The Arcadia Mediterranean Center in Syracuse
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
The College of Global Studies at Arcadia University is pleased to announce the Arcadia University Mediterranean Center for Arts & Sciences (MCAS) in Syracuse, Sicily, Italy. Many of you have known MCAS as an acclaimed, free-standing academic center that has offered a wide range of courses in Classical Studies, Italian Studies, Italian Language, Studio and [...]
Continue reading...New Archaeology Summer Program in Sicily
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
We are excited to offer a new, three-week summer program in Syracuse, Italy, Digging Abroad: Field School in Archaeology. This unique program is offered through The Mediterranean Center for Arts & Sciences (MCAS). Students will spend three weeks working on site, recording their findings in multifunctional classrooms at MCAS, discussing the main issues of field archaeology [...]
Continue reading...New Office at University of Rome Established
Thursday, October 28, 2010
We are pleased to announce that Arcadia in Rome’s new office at the Università degli Studi, Roma Tre is now up and running! Arcadia provides a truly unique international education experience – allowing American students to interact directly with the university community while taking courses in both English and Italian, taught in Roma Tré classrooms, [...]
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