Students from Italy getting slice of U.S. life
By Christine Des Garennes
Tuesday September 5, 2006
Heather Coit
Simona Morachioli, right, looks over Greyhound tickets with fellow Italian Mirko Marino before the start of University of Illinois Professor James Stubbins' introduction to energy systems class in the Mechanical Engineering building in Urbana.
URBANA – For several years, University of Illinois engineering students have been spending summers at the University of Pisa to study Italian language and culture, not to mention learning how nuclear power stations work.
This fall, the UI and University of Pisa reversed courses.
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