Connecting in New Orleans
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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Exploring Southern Italy’s Welcoming Coast
The Spring Program Visits Calabria One of the highlights of the program was the 5-day trip to the Calabria region in Italy’s south. The focus this time was on cultural diversity and inclusion, dear to our curriculum (in fact we dedicate an entire academic cluster to human rights). We were welcomed by the Italian Coast Guard, Red Cross volunteers,
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Spring Newsletter is Out
We’ve just sent out our quarterly newsletter with updates on what’s on in Italy and especially around the Borromini Center in Rome. If you haven’t received it and would like to subscribe here’s where you can enter your email. In the meantime, here are a few of the highlights. Some Spring Semester Highlights With nearly
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Sustainable Service Learning
Our students love to get involved in environmental projects in their adopted city, Rome. Whether this be helping fight climate change through conscientious shopping and recycling, joining in with Retake Rome to clean up public areas, or participating in internships supporting urban agricultural or welcoming immigrants, there are always ways for the study abroad student
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The Human Rights Lab Heads South
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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Dining Like a Local
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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Another Successful Internship Symposium
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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