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The Center for Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship (ICE Center) at Villanova University awarded a memorial Meyer ICE Award to Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc., to celebrate a lifetime of creative and innovative excellence and for inspiring generations of inquisitive and curious individuals. The ICE Center is a driver of academic and professional development opportunities for students and faculty at Villanova University in the areas of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Obesity rates in the United States have reached epidemic proportions. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), two-thirds of adults are overweight or obese and 17 percent of children and teens (ages 2-19) are obese. In response to this health crisis, the College of Nursing at Villanova University has established the MacDonald Center for Obesity Prevention and Education to foster the development of healthy lifestyles and behaviors through the education of health professionals and agencies, community groups and the public.

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Designed by Fr. Richard Cannuli, an Augustinian Priest and artist at Villanova University, the 9/11 memorial remembers the Villanovans and others whose lives were tragically cut short on Sept. 11, 2001

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Chemical engineering students at Villanova University are turning used cooking oil from dining services into hand soap and biodiesel fuel to power campus grounds equipment.

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Villanova’s College of Engineering has launched a new center of research that brings concepts of sustainability within the study and practice of engineering to life. The new Villanova Center for the Advancement of Sustainability in Engineering (VCASE) houses multi-disciplinary research and teaching in a number of emerging areas and seeks to protect and restore the environment through the systems-based integration of sustainability principles into engineering solutions.

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The recent alarming rise in sports concussions will be back in the news as Super Bowl Sunday approaches. Brainwave software being developed by a Villanova University researcher may hold the key to instant diagnosis in the future.

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The discovery of a hot Jupiter exoplanet that transfers orbital momentum to its host star may hold the key to a clearer understanding of the evolution of common planetary systems, according to findings presented to the American Astronomy Society this week by a team of Villanova University astronomy researchers.