February 2016 Issue In This Issue New initiatives Regional Dinner Series - featuring the region of Gran Caffè L'Aquila Campania - March 31.

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1 February 2016 Issue In This Issue New Initiatives New Member Philadelphia Science Festival 2016 New initiatives Regional Dinner Series featuring the region of Campania - March Interactive Tissue Microarray and Quantitative Digital Pathology Analysis University City Science Center, Suite 800 Apr 25 - Apr 26 all-day Read more... Gran Caffè L'Aquila We welcome Gran Caffè L'Aquila as our newest Corporate Member of the Chamber. Originally located in Piazza Duomo in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, the café was a landmark visited by many and in 2007 won café of the year in all of Italy. In 2009, an earthquake destroyed the café. The original owners, Stefano Biasini and Michele Morelli met Riccardo Longo, a restaurant entrepreneur. Their meeting led to the revival of Gran Caffè L'Aquila right here in Philadelphia. The restaurant was designed and built in Italy and shipped to Philadelphia for installation. After building and development, the restaurant opened on December 24th, With an incredibly authentic atmosphere, the first floor features an Italian bar and the second contains the restaurant, wine bar, cultural and language school, as well as coffee and gelato labs. For further information, please visit their website,

2 Italy-America Business Council & Network 200 South Broad Street, Suite 910A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia Science Festival 2016 The Philadelphia Science Festival is a nine-day, community-wide celebration of science that takes place annually in April, featuring lectures, debates, hands-on activities, special exhibitions and a variety of other informal science education experiences for Philadelphians of all ages. The inaugural Philadelphia Science Festival took place in April 2011 and brought together more than 120,000 to celebrate the region's strength in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). The Philadelphia Science Festival aims to provide opportunities for all Philadelphians to positively engage with and build a community around science, engineering, and technology by showcasing the role that each plays in the city and region. The Philadelphia region has long been the birthplace of innovation and continues to be the incubator of countless breakthroughs across the scientific disciplines. Yet, many Philadelphians don't realize the significant science that surrounds them. In an effort to raise awareness and to engage a wider audience with informal science learning, organizations across the city have united to form the Philadelphia Science Festival leadership team. As a collaboration among organizations of varying size and mission, the Philadelphia Science Festival has become a truly citywide event, with programs and exhibitions taking place throughout the city's many neighborhoods, fueled by the best scientific and educational resources the region has to offer-all geared towards making science interesting, relevant, and fun. The Philadelphia Science Festival seeks participation by every Philadelphian, most especially K-12 students. Professional scientists, engineers, and technologists from every discipline are invited to volunteer throughout the program. K-12 teachers are integral partners-classroom curriculum and resources are in development to facilitate Festival involvement.

3 Click here to learn more... The city of Salerno and its province are located at the north-western end of the plain of the Sele river, at the exact beginning of the Amalfi coast. The Amalfi Coast, made up of 13 towns, is known for its production of limoncello liqueur as the area is a known cultivator of lemons, known as sfusato amalfitano in Italian, which are grown in terraced gardens along the entire coast between February and October. The most famous towns, which attract the most tourists are Amalfi and Positano. At the end of the Amalfi Coast there is the Port of

4 Salerno is one of the most active of the Tyrrhenian Sea. It handles about 10 million tons of cargo per year, 60% of which is made up by containers. The port is part of the project Autostrade del Mare which is a service which aims, not only to reduce air pollution on the grounds, but also it would be a way to realize cost savings in transporting goods. This project is other than being an alternative maritime transport service to the ordinary road one, is providing more ways companies to carry out connections between the northern and southern Italy and in the European countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. Salerno is known for being located in one of the most historical parts of italy, as a matter of fact it hosted the oldest medical school in the world, the Schola Medica Salernitana, the most important source of medical knowledge in Europe in the early Middle Ages. It was closed in 1811 by Joachim Murat. Close to Salerno are also the cities of Palinuro and Paestum. Palinuro is known for it's Grotta Azzurra, which is not to be confused this other one in Capri, still in the province of Salerno. This Grotta adopts a turquoise color thanks to the refraction of the sunlight into the deep opening. Paestum main features today are the standing remains of three major temples in Doric style, dating from the first half of the 6th century BC. These were dedicated to Hera and Poseidon. The area surrounding Salerno part of the Cilento. Most of its area was made into a national park in 1991, to protect the territory from building speculation and mass tourism. In 1998 the park became a World Heritage Site of UNESCO. One of the best parts of Cilento are its eno-gastronomic delights, like the notorious mozzarella di bufala. The steps required to produce

5 buffalo mozzarella are the following:raw buffalo milk storage in big steel containers, thermic treatment to the liquid, curdling, curd maturation to reduce the acidifying processes, obtaining pasta filata by pouring hot water on the curd to soften it, shaping, cooling by immersion in cold water, pickling and packaging. Another type of food this region is known for is its fish which is always freshly caught in the Gulf of Salerno.