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The Roman Kitchen: Applications of the Mediterranean diet for hungry learners

To reinforce the Mediterranean diet studies, students spent a Friday afternoon (on October 8) sampling several regional olive oils to learn about quality products and their health benefits.

Rula Jebreal, award-winning journalist & author, honored for her philanthropic work with conflict-zone refugees.

Before an audience of well-wishers that including four of the refugee students whose lives have been directly affected by her philanthropic work, Dr. Scott Sprenger, President of AUR, described Ms.

Travel and Tourism Management Program Explores Italy’s Natural Wonders in South Tyrol: The Dolomites UNESCO World Heritage Site

This semester’s TTM Program’s field trip Destination Marketing:  European Wonders Bolzano, Dolomiti UNESCO took AUR students to South Tyrol.

Bronwyn Sweeney (BUS ’07) returns to AUR to reveal “A Day in The Life of an Advertising Copywriter”

Bronwyn Sweeney, a 2007 AUR graduate, is now a successful copywriter turned creative director working for MullenLowe, London.

From Debris to Ethical Agriculture: A Story of Regeneration on the Outskirts of Rome

A myriad of sprouting greens and rows of olive trees mark the landscape of Azienda Agricola CA.SA. Yet, a closer look makes evident the detrimental impact of human intervention and urban processes on the quality and depletion of the soil—dusty, dry, and littered with debris.

Center for Food Studies and Master in Food Studies Webinar “Eating for 1.5°C: Round Table on Climate Change and Sustainable Diets”, 1 October 2021

Based on the Special Issue of the International Journal of Sociology of Food and Agriculture, produced as a result of the AUR Conference in 2019,  a diverse cohort of authors joined a trans-disciplinary conversation on how sustainable diets can help mitigate and adapt to climate change and how so

The role of sales in customer engagement - Elen Ustun, Associate Director of Practice Development EMEA, Align Technology

“How sales and its skills will help you succeed in marketing and business”
By Betelihem Mezgebe, Student Assistant to Business Program

All Roads lead to Rome, sometimes passing through Lampedusa.

Professor Marina Buening will be exhibiting in a new group exhibition in Rome during September and October in a very particular location, Porti Imperiali di Claudio e Trainao, the ancient harbor of Rome.

Professor Lisa Colletta unearths new information in the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome.

While working on a chapter for the recently published The Italian Legacy in Philadelphia: History, Culture, People, and Ideas (Temple University Press, Sept 2021), Professor Colletta discovered new information about one of the residents eternally resting in the so-called

English Writing, Literature, and Publishing defies all the odds

For decades we have all been hearing about the demise of English departments, but the Bachelor's degree program in English Writing, Literature, and Publishing (EWLP) at The American University of Rome (AUR) continues to buck this trend and has become one of the fastest-growing majors at AUR.