News Archive 2010

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May 28, 2010 - See related photostrip

SUF summer students on the road to rich and varied offerings
The lighting of the piazza. The Italian hilltown. The constructed photograph. The Italian Mafia. Cross cultural psychology. Three Cities. These are just a few of the intriguing subjects awaiting summer 2010 students, who will find course offerings at SUF spiced up for the warm months.

May 14, 2010 - See related photostrip

SUF director and staff participate in seminar “International College and University Health, Safety, and Security”
When the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) scheduled the seminar “College & University Health, Safety, and Security in Florence,” it was a given that SUF would participate. And as director of one of the largest American study abroad program in Florence, SUF Interim Director Michael Calo naturally accepted the invitation to introduce the seminar.

SUF news broadcast schedule for summer 2010
From now through the end of July, the SUF News Broadcast will be published every two weeks.

April 30, 2010


Panoramic reality: SUF interns document the Duomo
Welcome to the world of 360° interactive video. SUF interns Caitlin Beverly Casperson, SU Art Photography & Advertising Design major, and Crystal Moon, Parson's School of Design Architecture program, have completed the second phase of a major project entailing the production of 360° panoramas of the Duomo under SUF faculty supervisor Professor Alick McLean.

April 23, 2010 - See related photostrip

Winners announced in Second Studio Arts Juried Art Competition
Donatello 21: five studios showcasing this semester’s truly exceptional student artwork, including paintings, photography, drawings, sculpture, art on fabric, and jewelry. During the end-of-the-semester exhibition, the jury faced the tough task of choosing one winning piece for the SUF Studio Arts Purchase Prize Award—and failed.

April 16, 2010 - See related photostrip

SUF announces winners of the Coluccio Salutati Prize
Congratulations to Quaneece Calhoun (Williams College), Logan Skirm (Whitman College), Joshua Jovanelly (USC), and Ashley Juavinett (Lafayette College), winners of the spring 2010 SUF Coluccio Salutati Prize.

Open SUF architecture lecture by Cecil Balmond garners high praise
Algorithms presented as intriguing formulas leading to sleek, compelling structures that appear to defy logic and gravity. Algorithms as mysteries to be discovered, as inexplicable—and at times still undefined—forms. Sound impossible? Not when the explanation is coming from Cecil Balmond.

April 13, 2010 - See related photostrip

It’s all about you: SUF announces schedule of spring 2010 end-of-semester celebration
SUF continues the tradition of the end-of-the-semester celebration with “It’s all about you,” a series of campus-wide events combining various awards and activities to celebrate student achievements during the semester.

SUF’s got talent
What do Shakespeare, guitars, gluttony, and sassy gay friends have in common? All played an important part in the effervescent spring 2010 SUF Talent Show.

April 2, 2010 - See related photostrip

Demand and request for SUF internships on the rise
It’s no surprise that more and more SUF students are seeking internships as a way to gain the relevant work experience employers want when seeking to hire. The news is the rise in demand for SUF students on the part of companies and museums in the host city of Florence.

A call for excellence: professors submit selected student nominees for Coluccio Salutati Prize spring 2010
Faculty members have submitted their nominees for SUF’s Coluccio Salutati Prize, a merit award for undergraduate and graduate students intended to recognize those who have aspired to the highest level of integration into the Italian culture, as well as those who have demonstrated academic achievement through their performance in class.

March 26, 2010 - See related photostrip

SUF Patrons 2010 calendar kicks off with ‘invisible lunch’
Who would have thought an invisible lunch could draw such a crowd? Over thirty guests attended the opening event of the SUF Patrons 2010 events calendar: a special tour of the exhibit De Chirico, Max Ernst, Magritte, Balthus: A look into the invisible, currently showing at the Palazzo Strozzi, followed by a lunch at the Villa Rossa.

March 19, 2010 - See related photostrip

SU Florence Architecture hosts international workshop
Imagine living in a city center where plots of empty land still represent buildings that were destroyed during the Second World War—a kind of living, spatial wound that won’t let you forget. What kind of urban structures would you propose to not only fill those spaces, but to also heal those wounds?

March 5, 2010 - See related photostrip

Workshop for SUF painting students leads to project display in exhibition at La Strozzina
The artist Marc Breslin, currently showing in the exhibition “Gerhard Richter and the Disappearance of the Image in Contemporary Art" at La Strozzina in Florence, recently invited SUF painting students to a private workshop held at La Strozzina during the installation of this prestigious exhibit.

February 26, 2010 - See related photostrip

Beyond volunteering: SUF volunteers offer earthquake victims help and hope
What can you offer to a town devastated by an earthquake, to a people that, even one year later, are still struggling to come to terms with their loss and the seeming abandonment by their own government? SUF volunteers recently discovered: You roll up your sleeves and give it all you’ve got—muscle, sweat, tears, and love.

February 19, 2010 - See related photostrip


SUF professors in BBC limelight
Dan Brown, watch out. Who says a real-life art historian can’t make a major discovery about a world-famous, mysterious painting? A recent episode of a BBC series, The Private Life of a Masterpiece, highlighted a discovery by SUF Professor Rab Hatfield, who found the key to some cryptic details hiding a dangerous message in Botticelli's The Mystic Nativity.

February 12, 2010 - See related photostrip

Eminent designer and structural engineer Cecil Balmond to lecture for SU Florence School of Architecture
As part of the SU Florence School of Architecture lecture series Cecil Balmond, one of the world's most exceptional structural engineers and Deputy Chairman of the Ove Arup Group in London, will speak in Florence, Italy on March 24, 2010.

February 5, 2010 - See related photostrip

SUF students to volunteer in earthquake-torn Abruzzo
Ever since a major earthquake struck the region of Abruzzo on April 6, 2009, Vittoria Tettamanti, Coordinator of the SUF Volunteer Program, has had a dream: to involve SUF students in the volunteer efforts that, almost one year later, are still crucial to the survival of the town.

January 29, 2010 - See related photostrip

A slice of student life abroad: SUF Italian department launches video contest
The SUF Italian Department is curious to see what images and emotions students feel best represent their experience of full immersion in local life and culture. How do they see Italy? What images are prevalent in their minds? To this end the department has challenged students to participate in a contest: to make a short video that transmits the essence of their experience abroad.

January 22, 2010 - See related photostrip

The comfort zone: SUF students meet their neighbors
Take close to three hundred study abroad students from universities all over the United States and place them, for one semester, in Florence, Italy. Some know each other—but most do not. What to do? Enter the ‘Zone Dinner,’ SUF’s fun and effective solution to helping students meet and break the ice with other students who live near them.

January 15, 2010 - See related photostrip

SUF welcomes Spring 2010 students
Orientation is in full swing, with students in the midst of the hustle and bustle of orientation activities: course registration, housing, permits of stay, welcome dinners, and internship and work-study applications.

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