MEYER INNOVATION AND CREATIVE EXCELLENCE AWARDS
The Meyer Innovation Awards were created and endowed in 2009 by Patrick Meyer ’74 VSB in honor of the Meyer family (Patrick ’74, Edward ’86, and C. Paul ’30) to recognize Villanova graduating seniors, faculty, and staff creators and innovators.
Award recipients will exhibit exceptional strengths in most or all of the following areas:
- Founding and executing upon an innovative or creative business, project, academic program, or initiative
- Identifying problems as opportunities to create solutions
- Embodying an entrepreneurial mindset
- Leadership in the greater Villanova community
Nominations open in the spring. The top student from each college will be interviewed on video about why they deserve the award. The Villanova community will vote and the top student will receive a $5,000 award for post-graduation utilization and a trophy.
One faculty or staff member will also be awarded a Meyer Innovation Award, $2,500 prize and trophy for embodying an entrepreneurial mindset in their work at Villanova.
PREVIOUS WINNERS
Faculty: Virginia Smith, Ph.D.
Student: Vedant Patel, ’23 CLAS
Faculty: George Simmons, COE
Student: Natale Nwanekwu, ’22 CLAS
Faculty: Hasshi Sudler PhD, COE
Student: Aldo Peirini, ’21 COE
Faculty: Michele Pistone, CWSL
Student: Yeray Lopez, ’20 COE
Staff: Kim Cahill, VSB
VSB Student: Fernando Delgado
CWSL Student: John Vernon
COE Student: Branden Garrett
FCN Student: Lauren Munter
CLAS Student: Marisa Reinhart
CPS Student: Harry Scheuerle
Faculty: Shawn Howton, VSB
VSB Student: Brady Acton
CWSL Student: Reece Cooke
COE Student: James Ghiorse
FCN Student: Agnes Cho
CLAS Student: William Repetto
Faculty: Kevin Minbiole, CLAS
VSB Student: Chinasa Nwokocha
CWSL Student: Eric Galko
COE Student: Vanessa Kungne
FCN Student:Catherine (Katie) DeLuca
CLAS Student: Hoseuk (Andrew) Kim
CPS Student: Stephen Werpehowski
Faculty: Sue Metzger, VSB
VSB Student: Lincoln Escobar
CWSL Student: Sara Resetar
COE Student: Abigail Buckenheimer
FCN Student: Meghan Long
CLAS Student: Natalie Galvez
CPS Student: Michael Bambrick
Faculty: Hezekiah Lewis, CLAS
VSB Student: Sergio Rizzuto-Flancbaum
CWSL Student: Stephanie Rozalski
COE Student: Joanna Schaff
FCN Student: Teresa Yang
CLAS Student: Alyssa Nazar
Faculty: Sally Scholz, CLAS
VSB Student: Charlie Dolan
CWSL Student: Vanessa Stine
COE Student: Cameron Piper
FCN Student: Aurora Vandewark
CLAS Student: Stephen Kane
Faculty: Edmond Dougherty, COE
VSB Student: Alejandro Avellana
CWSL Student: Matt Altenberg
COE Student: Stephen Schraer
FCN Student: Alexandria Reo
CLAS Student: Cassandra Postighone
Faculty: David Fiorenza, VSB
Student: John Marrah, VSB
Faculty: William Wagner, VSB
Student: Trenton Alenik, VSB
Faculty: David Nawrocki, VSB
Student: Matthew Clark, VSB
Faculty: James Klingler, VSB
Student: Joseph Mancari, VSB
Note: the awards were expanded in 2016 to encompass Villanova’s newly established College of Professional Studies. Prior to 2013, the Meyer ICE Award was only given to VSB students and faculty.