Villa Maria College has started a cheerleading program and is currently seeking new students to join the program. The team, which officially formed at the beginning of the Spring 2017 semester, is currently made up of 10 Villa students. The College is now actively recruiting new students to join the cheerleading program and is offering…
read moreThe College aims to pack 100k meals for hungry kids, hundreds of volunteers and donations needed Feed My Starving Children MobilePack, a quiet Villa Maria College tradition with roots in the Haitian earthquake, seeks help from Western New Yorkers for two things: donations to cover the $22,000 cost of packing 100,000 meals, and volunteers to…
read moreVilla Maria College sophomore Shaquana Owens (Buffalo, NY/Tapestry Charter) made history this past week at the United States Collegiate Athletic Association National Basketball Tournament, eclipsing 1,000 career points in just two seasons. Owens eclipsed the 1,000 point mark in an 18-point performance against second-seeded Penn State Lehigh Valley in the Final Four on Friday evening,…
read moreUNIONTOWN, PA – A late run and some key fourth quarter shots propelled the Villa Maria College Lady Vikings to an upset 67-64 win over third-ranked Penn State Brandywine on Thursday evening to advance to the program’s first ever Final Four. The Lady Vikings will play PSU Lehigh Valley today, March, 3, 2017 at 9:30…
read moreVilla stays with Berkeley for 30 minutes but can’t overcome late Knights rally The Villa Maria College Vikings battled hard with the nation’s top team for most of the game, but couldn’t overcome a late rally as they fell in the United States Collegiate Athletic Association Elite 8 on Thursday evening on the campus of…
read moreIn a nail-biting comeback, the #8 Villa Vikings defeated the #9 Andrews University Cardinals by a score of 66-63. Eighth-seeded Villa Maria College is moving on in the United States Collegiate Athletic Association Men’s Basketball National Tournament thanks to a second-half comeback which saw the Vikings (17-13) shoot 70 percent over the final 20…
read moreCheck out the latest edition of the Voyager for your last chance to submit a paper to the April Undergraduate Research Symposium, information on an upcoming poetry reading at Villa, free tickets to a presentation by Edna O’Brien at Kleinhan’s and more. Voyager 03.01.17
read moreA $35,000 grant Villa Maria College recently received from the St. Francis Fund of Felician Services, Inc., will be used to address the problems of access to a college education and persistence to graduation for low-income and at-risk students, with a focus on Buffalo’s East Side and its large immigrant/refugee population. Specifically, Villa Maria will…
read moreIn each program’s second season of existence, the Villa Maria College men’s basketball and women’s basketball programs have qualified for the United States Collegiate Athletic Association Division II National Tournament to be held next week in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. The men’s team was announced as the tournament’s eighth-seed during a live stream selection show on Tuesday…
read moreThe work of Adam Weekley, assistant professor of fine arts at Villa, is currently on display at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Weekley is pictured above with his exhibit, Time for Something Sweet. It consists of nine fabric beehives, a bear suit, a mirror, butterscotch candy, wooded strands, Astroturf, and other mixed media. The gallery purchased his piece as part…
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