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...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...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...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...Wednesday, January 30, 2013
The College of Global Studies at Arcadia University is pleased to welcome Dr. Aldo Fanchiotti, senior professor and head of the School of Engineering’s academic committee at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre (Roma Tre) in Italy. Dr. Fanchiotti will spend the spring semester working with The College of Global Studies to further enhance the [...]
Continue reading...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...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...Tuesday, August 7, 2012
The College of Global Studies’ third summer program in Renewable Energy – Policy and Development concluded in Germany on August 3rd after almost five intensive weeks of lectures, speakers, hands-on visits, cultural excursions and project work in Bonn, Brussels and Berlin. Participants in the hugely successful program included 21 highly motivated students with multi-disciplinary backgrounds from [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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On Monday January 23rd 2012, Arcadia University held the official opening and dedication ceremony of The Commons, its new state-of-the-art building designed as a meeting place for staff and students. Arcadia University’s President Carl (Tobey) Oxholm III hosted the event, which was also addressed via video link by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, who spoke warmly of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 13, 2011
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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 intergovernmental [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 19, 2011
We are now accepting applications for summer programs! We have expanded our scholarship fund for summer and offer a wide variety of programs, ranging from 3 to 8 weeks, including our popular three cities program (Athens, Rome, and Syracuse): Mediterranean Myths and Monuments , our Arcadia in Rome summer program, and our intensive, field based [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 1, 2010
We are pleased to announce the establishment of the Arcadia University Center for Italian Studies in partnership with the Università degli Studi Roma Tre in Rome, Italy. As part of this collaboration, the College of Global Studies is beginning an innovative semester study abroad program, Arcadia in Rome, which integrates U.S. and Italian students in [...]
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