School of Social Work Commencement
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2021 Eighty-Seventh Annual Commencement SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK C O M M E N C E M E N T Saturday May 15, 2021 9:00 A.M Commencement Pavilion North Campus Nancy J. Smyth Dean and Professor We would like to acknowledge that the University at Bufalo operates on the traditional territory of the Seneca Nation, a Haudenosaunee/Six Nations Confederacy. Baird Point is an outdoor, Greek-style amphitheater located on the southern shore of Lake LaSalle. It was a gift to the University from the Baird Foundation and the Cameron Baird Foundation. The marble columns on the concrete platforms were once part of the old Federal Reserve Bank in downtown Buffalo. Following their relocation to the lake, the columns were dedicated as a memorial to servicemen and servicewomen. 23 COMMENCEMENT 2021 2020 Program Prelude Recommending Candidates for Melinda Saran Pomp and Circumstance Degrees Vice Dean for Social Justice Initiatives and Sir Edward Elgar Nancy J. Smyth Teaching Faculty Dean School of Law Opening Declaration Denise Krause Conferring of Degrees Timothy Maynes Clinical Professor Satish K. Tripathi Faculty Director, MBA Program Associate Dean for Community Engagement President School of Management and Alumni Relations University at Bufalo, The State University of New York Recognition of Virtual Participants National Anthem MSW Hooding Ceremony Alumni Welcome Welcome & Introductions Rita M. Andolina Nancy J. Smyth Announcing MSW Candidates for Chair of the SSW Alumni Association Dean Hooding Laura A. Lewis UB Alma Mater Greetings Assistant Dean for Global Partnerships; Satish K. Tripathi Director of Field Education Closing Declaration President Denise Krause University at Bufalo, Hooders – MSW Program Clinical Professor The State University of New York Associate Dean for Community Engagement Isok Kim and Alumni Relations Dean’s Remarks Associate Professor Nancy J. Smyth Director of the MSW Program *Recessional Dean Great Exhibition Denise Krause By James McConnell Commencement Address Clinical Professor Phylicia Brown Associate Dean for Community Engagement Commencement Speaker and Alumni Relations *Audience will remain seated during the Recessional. SSW GSA Student Address Peter Sobota Michelle Melton Clinical Assistant Professor President Deborah Waldrop Announcement of 2020 Awards Professor Denise Krause Clinical Professor Shelley M. Kimelberg Associate Dean for Community Engagement Director of Interdisciplinary Degree and Alumni Relations Programs, in the Social Sciences College of Arts and Sciences SSW GSA Ofcers Announcement of the GSA Faculty, Staf, and Adjunct Kimberly Krytus MPH Coordinator Faculty Awards School of Public Health and Health Jessica Mencia – Vice President Professions leah Ingraham - Treasurer Jillian Connick – Secretary 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