2021 FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING C O M M E N C E M E N T Friday May 14, 2021 5:00 PM Commencement Pavilion UB North Campus Robert G. Shibley, FAIA, FAICP Dean and Professor Associate Deans Assistant Deans Martha Bohm R. J. Multari III Bruce R. Majkowski Rachel M. Teaman Subbiah Mantharam Samina Raja Hayes Hall, the School of Architecture and Planning's historic home on UB's South Campus. ©University at Bufalo, photo by Douglas Levere 2 COMMENCEMENT 2021 Program Processional Presentation of Bachelor Degree Candidates Pomp and Circumstance, Sir Edward Elgar Korydon Smith Chair, Department of Architecture Opening Declaration Robert S. Miletich Presentation of Master Degree Candidates Mace Bearer, Chair of the Faculty Senate and Professor of Nuclear Daniel B. Hess Medicine and Neurology Chair, Department of Urban and Regional Planning Welcome Alumni Welcome Robert G. Shibley Elaine Chow, BPS '98 Dean, School of Architecture and Planning Adjunct Instructor and Professional Development Coordinator, Department of Architecture National Anthem Anna Fernandez, BFA ‘21 Closing Remarks Dean Shibley Introduction of Platform Party Dean Shibley Singing of the Alma Mater - Lyrics on page 13 Anna Fernandez, BFA ‘21 University Greetings and Remarks Satish K. Tripathi Closing Declaration University President Professor Miletich School Greetings and Introduction of Commencement Speaker Recessional Dean Shibley Selections from Pomp and Circumstance, Sir Edward Elgar Commencement Address Henry G. Cisneros Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Readers Development Joyce Hwang Associate Chair, Department of Architecture Presentation of Student Awards Martha Bohm Samina Raja Associate Dean for Academic Afairs, School of Architecture and Associate Dean for Research and Inclusive Excellence, School of Planning Architecture and Planning Awarding of Dean’s Medals Dean Shibley Today’s ceremony is being recorded and will be available Conferring of Degrees for online viewing within ten days at http://ap.bufalo.edu/ President Tripathi commencement2021.html COMMENCEMENT 2021 3 UB Dental 20v9 for Print:. 5/20/20 8:03 AM Page 4 UB Dental 20v9 for Print:. 5/20/20 8:03 AM Page 5 SUNY Trustee and UB Officials Eunice Ashman Lewin Jeremy M. Jacobs Satish K. Tripathi A. Scott Weber Michael E. Cain Joseph J. Zambon, DDS, PhD Member of the State University of New York Chairman of the University President Provost and Executive Vice President Vice President for Health Sciences Dean Board of Trustees University at Buffalo Council for Academic Affairs Dean of the Jacobs School of Medicine SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor and Biomedical Sciences President and co-founder Jeremy M. Jacobs was An internationally As provost and Michael E. Cain, MD, came of Impacto Consulting appointed to the UB distinguished researcher executive vice president to the University at Buffalo Associates, Eunice Ashman Council in 1997; in 1998, and higher education leader, for academic affairs, in 2006 from Washington Lewin joined the SUNY then-Gov. George Pataki Satish K. Tripathi, PhD, is the A. Scott Weber, PhD, University School of Board of Trustees in named him chairman. University at Bufalo’s 15th serves as the university’s Medicine in St. Louis, where February 2010. She helped Jacobs is chairman of president. chief academic officer, he was director of the reinstate the Student Life Delaware North, a global responsible for leading Cardiovascular Division and Tripathi, who served as UB’s Committee, on which she is hospitality company with the development and Tobias and Hortense Lewin provost from 2004-2011, was co-chair. In that capacity, customers in the United implementation of the Professor of Medicine. dean of the Bourns College she spearheaded the creation of the Food States, Australia, New Zealand and the university’s academic vision. Weber provides of Engineering at the University of California- Cain is a graduate of Gettysburg College Insecurity and the Mental Health task forces. United Kingdom. The company’s operations leadership across the academic enterprise and received his medical degree from Riverside from 1997-2004. Previously, he spent Lewin serves on the board’s Executive include food and retail at airports and including research, scholarship and creative George Washington University School of 19 years as professor of computer science at Committee and the committees for academic sports venues, sports facility ownership and activities; undergraduate, graduate, Medicine and Health Sciences. He completed the University of Maryland, including seven afairs, communications and external afairs, management, operations of parks and major professional and international education; training in internal medicine and cardiology years as department chair. community colleges, and academic medical tourist attractions, hotel ownership and faculty development; diversity and inclusion at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington centers and hospitals. management, gaming operations and fne Tripathi graduated at the top of his class from initiatives; and university libraries. University School of Medicine. He was a dining. Banaras Hindu University (BHU). He holds a A member of UB’s faculty since 1983, Weber clinical/research fellow in clinical cardiac A former commissioner of the Niagara master’s degree and a doctorate in computer electrophysiology at the University of Jacobs owns the Boston Bruins and serves as is an innovative scholar and teacher and Frontier Transportation Authority, Lewin science from the University of Toronto, as Pennsylvania School of Medicine. chairman of the National Hockey League’s former chair of UB’s Department of Civil, was a founding member of the Roswell well as master’s degrees in statistics from Board of Governors. In 2018, he received the Structural and Environmental Engineering, An internationally recognized physician- Park Alliance and a board member of the the University of Alberta and BHU. A fellow sport’s highest honor when he was inducted where he helped establish UB’s scientist, Cain specializes in cardiac Bufalo Urban League and Hispanics United of the IEEE and the American Association into the Hockey Hall of Fame. transportation engineering program and electrophysiology, the examination of the of Bufalo. She is a member of the Hispanic for the Advancement of Science, he holds oversaw the department’s significant rise in heart’s electrical system. He is a translational Women’s League and the Greater Bufalo An alumnus of UB’s School of Management honorary doctorates from the Indian Institute of national rankings among U.S civil researcher, clinician and educator. His Racial Equity Roundtable. Earlier this year, and Harvard Business School’s Advanced Information Technology, Allahabad, and Brock engineering programs. Weber has held research, funded by the National Institutes of she was named to the Western New York Management Program, Jacobs holds University in Canada. progressively responsible administrative Health, has been directed at the Health Equity Task Force to coordinate honorary doctorates in humane letters from electrophysiological determinants of A leader in the national higher education roles at UB, including senior vice provost vaccine distribution for the region’s counties. UB, Canisius College, Niagara University and ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation in the community, Tripathi serves as chair of the Mid- and vice provost for academic affairs, Johnson & Wales University. In 2015, his family setting of healed myocardial infarction. American Conference Council of Presidents where he was instrumental in the creation A retired bilingual social worker for the donated $30 million to advance UB’s medical and on the boards of the NCAA Division I, of the UB Curriculum and the nationally Cain is a fellow of the American College of Bufalo Board of Education, Lewin is a school, which was renamed the Jacobs NCAA Board of Governors and College Football recognized Finish in 4 program; and vice Cardiology, the American Heart Association and champion for STEM education. School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Playof Board of Managers. A member of Gov. president for student life, where he the Heart Rhythm Society. He is a past president Jacobs has served Western New York for Andrew Cuomo’s Reimagine NY Commission, focused on enhancing the student of the Association of Professors of Cardiology Born in Guantanamo, Cuba, Lewin and the Heart Rhythm Society, and past chair of more than four decades with his business he has served on the boards of the Association experience on campus and promoting immigrated to the U.S. with her family in the board of directors of The Sarnoff expertise and philanthropic leadership, of American Universities, the Association of overall student wellness. 1967. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Endowment for Cardiovascular Science. and Delaware North has received multiple Public and Land-Grant Universities and the sociology from Marymount Manhattan Weber’s research focuses on awards for social responsibility, community Council for Higher Education Accreditation. In He has received the Hans-Peter Krayenbuehl College and master’s degrees in American biodegradation of chemicals in water and service and environmental stewardship. 2011, Gov. Cuomo appointed Tripathi inaugural Memorial Award for Research in Cardiac and Puerto Rican studies, and in educational soil and the reclamation of environmentally co-chair of the Western New York Regional impacted brownfield sites. He earned Function from