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Another successful summer program of academic internships is complete, and as always concluded with an engaging Internship Symposium in which our students got to share amongst themselves and invited guests the wonderful work they completed at their internship placements these last eight weeks. This time their Symposium was also combined with the video screening of […]

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Jun 11 2024

Connecting in New Orleans

PROGRAMS, Uncategorized / By Thomas Rankin

TBI Director Tom Rankin spent three intensive days recently attending meetings and learning sessions at the annual NAFSA Conference in New Orleans.

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Mar 19 2024

Open House Roma

PROGRAMS, RESOURCES / By Thomas Rankin

It’s always a thrill to be in Rome when Open House comes around. This non-profit organization has been opening up special sites and properties to the public for over a decade and has become a true annual institution. A wide range of destinations, from tiny modern apartments to huge churches and archaeological sites make up

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Mar 6 2024

Borromini in Boston

MEDIA, PROGRAMS / By Thomas Rankin

Several members of the Borromini Team will be present at the Forum for Education Abroad annual meeting in Boston later this month, on March 20-22. We hope those of you attending will drop in and say hi. Founder Pier Alberto Merli, Visual Media Manager Lu Yuan, and Program Coordinator Lindsay Maldari will be on hand

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Jan 29 2024

Kicking Off the New Year with Chapman University’s Interterm Travel Course

PROGRAMS / By Lindsay Maldari

What better way to kick off the new calendar year than by welcoming a new custom program to the Borromini Institute–the Chapman University 2024 Interterm Travel Course in Rome. This interdisciplinary group of ten students was led by Chapman University Professor and the Founding Director of the Ferrucci Institute for Italian Experience and Research, Dr.

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Dec 8 2023

L’orologio – Fall 23

MEDIA, PROGRAMS / By Filippo

The new edition of L’Orologio – the Borromini Institute’s quarterly publication – is out!

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A group of Human Rights Lab heads posing

Oct 9 2023

The Human Rights Lab Heads South

JUSTICE, PROGRAMS, Uncategorized / By Lindsay Maldari

As part of our Human Rights Lab programming, the Borromini Institute organized a week-long trip for our University of Illinois and Hobart and William Smith College students into Italy’s deep south. We began in the Calabria region, headed into the island of Sicily, and concluded with an overnight ferry into the bustling city of Naples.

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A room with a lot of graffiti on the wall.

Sep 4 2023

Another Successful Internship Symposium

MEDIA, PROGRAMS, Uncategorized / By Lindsay Maldari

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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Jun 24 2023

Program in Engineering and Construction Management

CITIES, PROGRAMS / By Thomas Rankin

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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Feb 24 2023

Exploring Rome’s Ancient Port

CITIES, FOOD, JUSTICE, PROGRAMS / By borromini

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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