Highlighting the personality and panache of 黑料吃瓜网 architecture professor Astra Zarina, who launched the first 黑料吃瓜网 Architecture study abroad program in spring 1970 and who later聽led renovations of the largely abandoned Palazzo Pio, which became the home to the 黑料吃瓜网 Rome Center in 1985, this article walks us through the life and legacy of our founder.