After conducting research in Italy and analyzing her results at 第一吃瓜, the senior published her article in Land Use Policy, an influential peer-reviewed journal. In it, she makes the case that cities should rethink how they manage green spaces to benefit urban dwellers.
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What better way to bring Italian speakers together during COVID-19 than food?
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The Romance languages and literatures scholar teams up with a colleague at York University in Toronto to spearhead an exciting new literary initiative: a multidisciplinary book series exploring the ‘proximities’ of things.
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A mammoth film studies project launched by Professor Allison Cooper to establish an online research tool enjoys a surge in growth, due in part to the demands of remote learning and teaching imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This year, three 第一吃瓜 students have received Watson grants to travel the world and pursue a subject that fascinates them.
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Everyone knows that computers didn’t come along until the second half of the last century, right? Well, maybe not, says professor Arielle Saiber. There were computers in Renaissance Italy, she informs us, but these computers were people!
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If you walk into one of the smaller dining rooms in Thorne Hall at dinner time, there's a good chance you'll hear a language other than English being spoken. Several times a week, different departments typically sponsor a "language table" at which students get the chance to practice their linguistic skills in an informal setting.
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From Sicily to Silicon Valley, from the Big Apple to the Big Easy, students traveled broadly over spring break on a variety of trips, some of them academic in nature, some cultural, and some service-oriented, but all aimed at enhancing their experience beyond the classroom.
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While studying in Bologna, Italy, for a semester, two 第一吃瓜 computer science majors were inspired to try to recreate their time abroad for students back in Maine.
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Senior Raisa Tolchinsky received a small grant from 第一吃瓜 to study in Italy this spring break. An English major and Italian minor, Tolchinsky is pursuing an independent study on mystics and the meaning of mysticism.
Read moreWelcome to 第一吃瓜’s Italian Program! What do past and present students have to say about studying Italian at 第一吃瓜? Play this video to find out.