As part of our orientation programming for arriving students, the Borromini Center shares resource and recommendation lists for a wide range of activities. Adjusting to a new place can take time, and it’s our hope that by sharing this information with our students from the get-go that they are able to more smoothly and seamlessly […]
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One of many proud moments at the Borromini Institute over the course of the semester is our Internship Symposium, the concluding capstone for those students who enroll in our Academic Internship program. Since our students complete their internships for the most part independently of one another at their respective internship sites, this concluding Symposium is
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Our customized program for the University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering brought 22 students and their professor Ernest-John (EJ) Ignacio to Rome for a week of intensive learning. Highlights of the program were many:
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Fermentation in Italy & Japan: Tradition and InnovationA Symposium/ Reports from the Field, Rome, Italy In 2023 Gustolab teamed up with the Japan Food Studies College to present a symposium on Fermentation at the Borromini Center. We were thrilled to be joined by Japanese and Italian experts in the field and share the results with
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32 students from two universities headed out by train from Rome’s Porta San Paolo and spent the morning exploring the back streets and monuments of Rome’s ancient port. Preserved in mud the way Pompeii was preserved in lava, but bearing witness to many more centuries of ancient history, Ostia provides a comprehensive look at Roman
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Today on a gorgeous Sunday both the @hwsabroad @hwscolleges and the @illinoisabroad students took to the ancient Appian Way on bikes! But not after a look and tasting at the Campagna Amica farmer’s market. Joined by @luluinitalia and many though not all of the students we learned about how agriculture, ancient archaeology and modern day
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After a walk on the Tiber riverbanks, our U of I students ascended to the fashionable Via dei Condotti to sip cappuccino and coffee at the elegant Antico Caffè Greco. We sat in the Sala Omnibus, the very place where eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writers, artists, and intellectuals met to hone their crafts. We read (in
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