Scholarships

If you can DONATE to support Italian Studies, we thank you!

Students, click the links below for application information.

For undergradute and graduate students, multiple deadlines

• Tom DiSalvo Scholarship for Italian Studies
• UNICO National Highland Beach Chapter Scholarship Endowment (also for incoming high school students)
• Order of the Sons of Italy-Bonanno Lodge Scholarship for Italian Minor or Major
• The Lena Camiccia-Arnautou Scholarship for Excellence in Italian Studies
• "Good Sisters" Scholarship for Italian and Comparative Graduate Studies
• Orienta Scholarship encouraging your dream
• Myriam Swennen Ruthenberg Award for Writing Excellence in Italian

For Special Projects

• NEW! Rosina e Vittorio Cannizzaro Scholarship for the Study of Italian American Jewelry
• Marco Pozza Research Fellowship
• Fasanella Scholarship

For Study Abroad

• Il Circolo Scholarships for study abroad in Italy
  
• Thomas McCormick Scholarship for Study in Venice.  Click here to see past recepients tell their experience.
• Margaret Broch Foundation Scholarships for Study in Venice
• Italo American Cultural Society Scholarship for Study in Venice
• UNICO Scholarship for Study in Venice
• Enrico Dallio Scholarship for Study in Venice
• Study Abroad Flight Fellowship
• Nancy Lynn Brown Scholarship for Study Abroad (inquire with Dr. Serra)
• NEW! Greater Pompano Beach Sister Cities Scholarship for Study in Sorrento Possibly matched by the Istituto Sant'Anna.

For more scholarships for students of Italian descent, click here.

Unico Highland Beach scholarships.

Listen to students thanking Il Circolo, UNICO and ItaloAmerican Cultural Society

Italian majors Reese, Francesca and Spencer, past and present scholarship recipients, join the gala, the main fundraiser for Il Circolo, Italian Cultural Society, after volunteering to pack the gala gift bags. With them is America's tenor Chris Macchio.

 

James Thureson (2025) is the first recipient of the Orienta Scholarship, supporting his daring dream to finish his Italian minor in one semester. He holds the book Orienta , and gives a pat on Dante's back.

 

Student volunteers huddle around padre Adam Forno, beloved chaplain for many Italian American organizations, at the UNICO Highland Beach membership drive, 2024.

 

Il Circolo pledges its annual gift to FAU Italian Program, with scholarship recipients, on November 2023.

 

Students volunteer as servers at the UNICO membership drive to thank for the scholarships they received to study in Venice.

 

The first Sorrento-Pompano Beach Sister Cities scholarship is given to Helena Syljebeck who is standing here between the Mayor and Tony Phillips in Sorrento, Italy (Spring 2025) . Helena is attending the program at Sant'Anna Institute.

 

Il Circolo-Cultural Society of the Palm Beaches Scholarship and Gift to FAU Italian on November 2022

 

 

Bina Sylvester receives the UNICO Highland Beach scholarship, Kendall Reichert receives the Tom DiSalvo scholarship and Francesca Cocilovo receives the Margaret Broch scholarship, 2023.

 

Italo-American Cultural Society scholarship for study in Venice, 2022 (with tenor Carlos De Antonis)

 

Order of the Sons of Italy State Chapter Scholarships, 2022

 

   

 

 

 Unico Endowment, November 2020 and 2021

 

 

Viviana Pezzullo, Ph.D., recipient of the first Marco Pozza Fellowship, 2020