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See Which Three Delaware County Schools Topped WalletHub’s Best Colleges and Universities for 2020
Two of Delaware County’s colleges, Swarthmore and Villanova, cracked a top 100 list of best universities and colleges in the nation for 2020, reports the personal finance website WalletHub. A third, Haverford, was just on the outside of the top 100, at 101, according to the report. WalletHub compared 1,003 higher-education institutions in the U.S.…
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Villanova, St. Joseph’s Ban Students, Faculty From Betting on the Home Team
Two local private Roman Catholic Colleges have decided to ban students, faculty and staff from betting on the university’s sports teams, writes Andrew Maykuth for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Students, faculty, and staff at Villanova and St. Joseph’s University are prohibited from betting on games in which the university’s teams are participants. Villanova adopted the ban…
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Villanova Man With Photo Enhancement Skills Helps Police Crack Cold Murder Case
In 2015, Byron Wolfe of Villanova helped Pennsylvania State Police detective Andrew Martin enhance 24-year-old photographs, writes Vinny Vella for The Philadelphia Inquirer. His two hours of work would eventually lead to the Sept. 3, 2019 arrest of Theodore Dill Donahue in the 1991 slaying of Denise Sharon Kulb, his ex-girlfriend. Investigators said the photo…
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Drones Provide Unique Coverage of Villanova Football Practice
Villanova University’s football team is hoping a new perspective will help them win games, writes Mike Jensen for The Philadelphia Inquirer. That perspective comes from a drone hovering 18 meters above the field, recording the practice and giving the football coach a clear look at his own players. “I do think it’s a bit of…
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Villanova University Moves Forward With More Construction Plans Covering the Next 10 Years
Now that Villanova University has opened its new residential community, the Commons, along Lancaster Avenue, what’s next? asks Natalie Kostelni for the Philadelphia Business Journal. Villanova is implementing another round of capital improvements projecting to total $400 million that will be done in phases over the next 10 years. The school will turn its focus…
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Villanova University Social Justice Documentary, ‘Sankofa’, wins Student Academy Award
For the first time ever, Villanova University students have won a student Academy Award in the Documentary/Domestic Film Schools category for their film, “Sankofa,” which explores mental slavery and its negative systemic impact on black males across the world, reports Main Line Media News. The Villanova team will travel Oct. 17 to Beverly Hills, Calif.…
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For Villanova’s Jay Wright, Being Assistant Coach for USA Basketball in China Was Eye-Opening
When Jay Wright got back after six weeks as assistant coach with USA Basketball at the FIBA World Cup in China, not much had changed with his Wildcats at Villanova, writes Joe Juliano for The Philadelphia Inquirer. “Then I watched the team and they looked better and I’m thinking, ‘I’m really not that important,’ because…
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For These Golfers, Blind Follow Through Actually Improves Their Game
Dave Zimmaro, youth golf director at Villanova’s Overbrook Golf Club, learned first-hand that blind people can play golf, and they can play it well, writes Natalie Pompilio for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Zimmaro saw teenager Patrick Molloy, blind since birth,send a drive soaring with a left-handed swing so smooth that it had once been compared to…
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Life at Villanova’s Commons: Dorm Life Was Never Like This
Villanova’s new dorms, The Commons, offer more than just living space. There’s two fitness centers and in 2020, the 200-seat Refectory restaurant will open, along with the Parliament Expresso & Coffee Bar, writes Melissa Jacobs for Main Line Today. A performing arts center and a five-level parking garage will follow. Villanova’s once-modest Lancaster Avenue entrance…
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Villanova’s New Residential Complex Means 85 Percent of Undergraduates Can Live on Campus
Students returning to Villanova University this fall will be hard pressed to miss the new $225 million apartment complex spread over eight acres of the campus, writes Susan Snyder for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The stone and brick residence halls on the southern side of Lancaster Avenue is housing 1,135 upperclassmen on what used to be…
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Villanova Professor’s Love of Golf Has Made Him a Golf Course Archivist
A Villanova University professor from Wayne has taken his love of golf and created an online catalog of 500 golf courses, writes Jim Finnegan for Main Line Today. Each course is documented hole by hole with pictures, scorecards, a map and other factoids. Joe Bausch was a competitive high school golfer in the Midwest and…
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Chester’s Ronell Williams Went From Linebacker to Coach for the Chicago Bears
Chester High graduate Ronell Williams couldn’t believe it when he was asked Jan. 16 to join the Chicago Bears coaching staff, writes Joseph Santoliquito for the Philly Voice. The 2010 grad and Division II All-American West Chester linebacker found himself at age 27 the Bears’ new defensive quality control coach. Williams was a standout linebacker…
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Villanova Basketball Star Finds God and a Full Life as a Cloistered Nun
In 1991, Shelly Pennefather, 25, gave up a career in basketball, and life with her own family, to become a cloistered nun, writes Elizabeth Merrill for ESPN. Pennefather scored 2,408 points at Villanova University, and won the Wade Trophy in 1987 for best women’s college basketball player. She secured a $200,000contract to play basketball in…
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Villanova Office Is Part of JPMorgan Chase Expansion Effort
JPMorgan Chase is expecting good things from its office at 795 E. Lancaster Ave. in Villanova, according to a press release. The branch location was chosen because of its prime location on the Main Line and the fact it’s convenient to the Villanova campus community, officials said. Last September, JPMorgan Chase announced an expansion of…
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Wellness Regimen Gave This Villanova Chef With Lupus a Second Chance
Karen Nicolas never thought she’d work as a chef again after being diagnosed with lupus, writes Mary Clare Fischer for Philadelphia Magazine. Instead, this Villanova woman, culinary director at Main and Vine Bistro in Villanova, found the wellness tools she needed and now she’s back in the kitchen. Two and a half years ago she…
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Villanova University Keeps Turning Out Fulbright Scholars
At Villanova University, Fulbright Scholars are becoming common place. Villanova students won 32 Fulbright awards this school year, double its tally from last year, writes Susan Snyder for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Villanova could land in or near the top nationwide. Brown University this month announced it had 38 winners. Princeton had 32. The University of…
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Portrait Honors Villanova Peace Activist Who Opposed Vietnam War
The Rev. Daniel Berrigan, a legendary peace activist who led protests against the Vietnam War and nuclear weapons that landed him in jail, has been memorialized in a portrait by a Philadelphia-born artist unveiled recently at Villanova University, writes Melanie Burney for the Philadelphia Inquirer. A Jesuit priest and poet, Berrigan was known for defiant…
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Villanova University’s Female Athletes Celebrate 50 Years as Trailblazers and Visionaries
The Villanova alumnae who gathered for a November 50th anniversary celebration all had one thing in common. They were Villanova University’s women athletes, writes Shawn Proctor for Villanova Magazine. Built over the decades into a powerhouse that has won national championships, more than 300 women are now Villanova student-athletes on 13 teams. Women became a…
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