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Students in Rome, Italy Photo Courtesy: The studysorrentosbu Instagram page BY: ELIZABETH KAMROWSKI, NEWS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR St. Bonaventure University students have the opportunity to travel through some of the university’s study abroad programs, allowing them to experience new cultures while earning college credit.   The Francis E Kelley Oxford program takes place from June 28 to…

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Study Abroad prepares for 2022

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BY ANTHONY DASILVA, STAFF WRITER St. Bonaventure is offering study abroad programs across six foreign countries and three continents. The programs are Sorrento, Italy; Perugia, Italy; Spain, Japan, China, Oxford, and an all-new trip to Belize in January of 2023. Two of the programs are on hold or cancelled this year.  The study abroad program…

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University introduces new program abroad

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By Kurt Martone, Staff Writer A new course hopes to kick off this winter in Perugia, Italy. Dr. Michael Chiariello, a professor emeritus at St. Bonaventure University is hopeful that his redesigned course can start soon. “I am warily optimistic about my course, which is almost a year from now, although Europe is moving more…

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Seats left for Oxford and Sorrento

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By Landon Allison News Editor This coming summer, there are two abroad programs that St. Bonaventure University is offering its students. These trips are taking interested students to Sorrento, Italy and Oxford, England. Lecturer in the Jandoli School of Communication Mike Jones-Kelley is the director of the Francis E. Kelley Oxford Program. “Very simply, the…

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Study in Perugia this summer

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By Rachel Kimmel Contributing Writer The yearly summer study abroad program in Italy is looking for students to join the trip. The summer study is a five-week course where students travel around Italy and earn up to seven credits taking classes. The program begins on May 24, when students land in Rome. From there, they…

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Pietrobattista continues family legacy at university: Descendent of founding president enrolls in freshman class

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By Rachel Konieczny News Assignment Editor Flavia Pietrobattista said she knew from the minute she visited St. Bonaventure in 2008 that she would want to return to the university her great-great-great-great uncle founded. Pietrobattista, the great-great-great-grandniece of founding university president, Panfilo da Magliano, O.F.M., is a student at St. Bonaventure for the 2015-16 academic year.…

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Czech it out

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By Harrison Leone Czech Correspondent The 11:30, or 23:30, if you prefer, bus from Prague to Munich pulled in to the outskirts of the capital of Bavaria before the sun was up and, unfortunately for me, before the trains into the heart of town were running. So I set up camp on a chilly train…

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Following the footsteps of Francis

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By Andrea Fernandes Contributing Writer St. Bonaventure University is certainly comprised of an astonishing group of students. Matt Creeron and Dan Egan are just two students who are striving to become extraordinary. While many Bonnies spent the winter break sleeping in, these two spent their break on a pilgrimage to Italy. While on this pilgrimage,…

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Bona Venture editor finds out what dreams are made of

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By Matthew Laurrie Copy Editor Before studying abroad in Perugia, my knowledge of Italian culture stretched about as far as my obsession with the Lizzie McGuire Movie, my adoration for pizza and Saturday dinners at my grandma’s house. Yet somehow I found myself sitting in the Buffalo Niagara International Airport – white knuckles clutching my…

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Relatives of Fr. Pamphilo da Magliano visit campus

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By Alexandra Salerno Editor-in-chief Last week, St. Bonaventure hosted two teenagers whose relationship with the University reads like a storyline from a movie script. In 2005, Sr. Margaret Carney, O.S.F., university president, received an email from an Italian woman named Laura Pietrobattista. She introduced herself as belonging to the family of Fr. Panfilo (Eng: Pamphilo)…

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