Chestnut Season Draws Crowds to Marradi’s Marrone Festival
Marradi’s specialty chestnut festival, a short trip from Florence By Kristin Hsi (Syracuse University) MARRADI, Italy — As summer heat gives way to yellow leaves, Tuscany enters its autumn harvest season. Located in central Italy’s hills, the region has cultivated seasonal staples such as grapes, olives, fruit and grain since Ancient Rome. During the cooling…
Professor Veronica Iubei Presents at Psychology Conference in Athens
Professor Veronica Iubei, who teaches a course at Syracuse Florence on Italian serial crimes, presented a paper at the 3rd International Conference of the European Association of Phenomenology, Psychopathology and Psychotherapy (EAPPP), held in Athens on 2 and 3 October 2026. The conference was organized under the auspices of the National and Kapodistrian University of…
Syracuse Florence Students Join 44,000 in Pink for Corri la Vita
By Aurora Santangelo, Syracuse University On September 27, 2026, bright pink shirts flooded the streets of Florence, an unstoppable force on a dedicated march to raise money for victims of breast cancer. Over 44,000 people from all over Italy participated in Corri la Vita wearing cyclamen-pink t-shirts, including some our own Syracuse Florence students through…
Before Florence, Students Followed the Mediterranean Through Italy
For some students, the semester abroad began before they even reached Florence. An 11-day traveling seminar took them from Ravenna to Venice and into Italy’s northeastern borderlands, where mosaics, monuments, and centuries of cultural exchange became the starting point for their semester. From August 22 to September 1, students joining Syracuse Florence for Fall 2026…
From Florence to the Front of the Classroom: Lauren’s Full-Circle Journey
When Lauren arrived in Florence in 2008 as a Syracuse University Italian major, she couldn’t have imagined that nearly two decades later she’d be back — not as a student, but as a professor helping shape the very program that changed her life. Lauren’s path to Italian started early. Growing up in eastern Pennsylvania with…
From Curva Fiesole to Viola Park: Alessandro Pugliese’s Florence Story Never Really Ended
Some students study abroad for a semester and go home with good memories. Alessandro Pugliese studied abroad for a semester — then came back twice more, landed an internship with ACF Fiorentina, and eventually went to work for the club’s owner, Rocco Commisso, back in the United States. Today he’s Manager of Public Relations for…
Professor Francesca Parotti Presents on Space Terraforming Materials at Conference in China
Francesca Parotti presented her paper, “ARCUAS: A 3D Printing of Regolith and Bio-based Material for Terraforming,” at NEFES 2026, the 11th International Conference on New Energy and Future Energy Systems, held July 7–10 in Macao, China. The conference brought together 40 delegates from 16 countries and regions to foster communication across fields connected to new…
