Alumni Stories: Bruce Siska, Matt Lysne, and Ed Muehlberg, Fall ’95 and Spring ’96
When Bruce Siska, Jason Halter, Matt Lysne, Ed Muehlberg, and Ernesto Teran arrived in Florence for the one-year Master of Architecture program in the fall of 1994, they were five strangers among a class of eleven. By the time they left the following spring, they were something closer to brothers. Thirty years later, that bond…
Alumni Stories: Griffin Conner and Will Hewitt, Fall 2019
Griffin and Will met by accident — a last-minute plane seat, a roommate’s invitation, an apartment near Villa Rossa with room for one more — and turned it into something that’s lasted years past the semester that started it. What began over shared taste in music and art became weekend trips across Italy, late nights…
Alumni Story: Duane Blue Spruce, Fall 1982
In Fall 1982, Duane Blue Spruce left Slocum Hall for a semester with Syracuse Florence as a fourth-year architecture student, living with a nonna on Via del Pallone and forging an unlikely friendship with an Italian teenager that led to a Thanksgiving dinner and a World Cup-era soccer match. Over 40 years later, he returned…
Learning Through Discovery: Local High School Students Intern at Syracuse Florence
We recently welcomed Greta and Ettore, two students from Duca d’Aosta Salvemini high school in Florence, for a three-week internship with the Academic Department. The experience formed part of the hands-on learning component of their curriculum and allowed them to explore the daily life of an international academic institution from within. For Greta and Ettore,…
Back to Florence: One Student’s Mission to Save a Dying Art
Inspired by a Syracuse Florence course, graduating senior James Kuhns is building a platform to connect American tourists with the city’s hidden artisans. James Kuhns came to Florence two years ago as a study abroad student and after returning to the U.S. he couldn’t stop thinking about a leather jacket—one he’d watched craftspeople build from…
Professor Stefania Berutti Uses Syracuse Fellowship to Bring Ancient Myths to Life Across Florence
What if studying Classical Mythology meant racing through the Uffizi in search of a sarcophagus, or taking a selfie with a mythological statue at the Pitti Palace? That’s the premise behind the #100Myths Project — a semester-long adventure designed by Stefania Berutti that turns Florence itself into a classroom. The project grew out of a…
From Palermo to Etna: Students Explore Sicily’s Food Culture in Spring Signature Seminar
Photos by Sasha Laurenzo. Food Studies professor Olivier De Maret led ten days of immersive learning across the island This May a group of Syracuse Florence students traded the familiar cobblestones of Tuscany for the sun-drenched markets and volcanic hillsides of Sicily. From April 30 to May 9, they traveled the length of the island…
