This Year's Meyer Innovation and Creative Excellence Award Goes To...William Repetto!

Congratulations to second-year student William Repetto for winning this year’s Meyer Innovation and Creative Excellence Award from the Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship (ICE) Institute. The ICE Awards were created to recognize a spirit of innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship that enhances Villanova University. The annual award of a trophy and $1,000 goes to one graduating student from each college (as well as to one faculty member).

William won the award for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences for serving as the project lead for the launch of the Diversity and Inclusion Resource Guide at Falvey Library. As stated on the guide’s home page, it is intended to aid students in exploring a “vast range of social, political sexual, racial, and gendered issues in today’s world. This page offers a point of entry for exploration and seeks to provide a space for genuine personal, intellectual and emotional growth. As a library community composed of diverse voices, we intend for this resource to allow you to engage with voices, ideas, and stories both familiar and new.”

Along the way to creating such a helpful resource, William authored two blog posts to detail the status of the project. The first blog post details the early stages of the project and William and team’s initial pitch of the resource guide last year. His follow up blog post, written last month, discusses the tactics William used, in partnership with English and Theatre Librarian and department liaison Sarah Wingo, to enhance the community-building aspect of the guide as well as its user-friendliness.

You can read ICE Institute’s formal announcement of all the winners of this year’s awards here.

Way to go, William!