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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice, Seymour H SUNY HONORARY DOCTORAL DEGREE RECIPIENTS—UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO A SUNY HONORARY DEGREE PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION WITH 1981 1994 2002 2011 PROGRAM: David Harker (Science) Burt P. Flickinger Jr. Ellen Shulman Baker (Science) Ronald I. Dozoretz (Science) (Humane Letters) Erma Hallett Jaeckle (Laws) Arthur E. Levine (Humane Letters) 1983 Robert V. Pound (Science) Tom Toles (Humane Letters) WELCOME Satish K. Tripathi, President, University at Buffalo Alan E. Gotlieb (Laws) 2012 Milton Rogovin (Fine Arts) 2003 Paula Allen-Meares (Humane 1984 Merryl H. Tisch, Acting Chairman, SUNY Board of Trustees Joseph P. Allen (Science) Letters) William C. Baird (Humane Letters) 1995 Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Arthur O. Eve (Laws) Ronald H. Coase (Humane Letters) Jacques Genest (Science) (Humane Letters) Brad Grey (Humane Letters) Wilson Greatbatch (Science) 2013 Ishmael Scott Reed (Humane Elizabeth Pierce Olmsted Ross PRESENTATION OF SUNY Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice, Seymour H. Knox Jr. Calyampudi R. Rao (Science) Letters) (Science) HONORARY DEGREE Supreme Court of the United States (Humane Letters) Charles Wuorinen (Music) George Widmer Thorn (Science) 2004 1985 2014 Acting Chairman Tisch John Walsh (Humane Letters) Erich Bloch (Science) 1996 Ira Flatow (Humane Letters) Max B. E. Clarkson (Humane Letters) Robert G. Wilmers (Humane Letters) Pierre Dejours (Science) Jack N. Lightstone (Humane Letters) Kristina M. Johnson, Chancellor, State University of New York Saxon Graham (Science) Edwin F. Jaeckle (Laws) 2005 Norman R. McCombs (Science) Jeremy M. Jacobs (Humane Letters) Jack Dangermond (Science) President Tripathi 1986 Florence S. Jacobson (Humane Letters) 2015 Henry A. Panasci Jr.* Willard A. Genrich (Humane Letters) Gaynor I. Jacobson (Humane Letters) Christopher J. Scolese (Science) (Humane Letters) Gregory B. Jarvis* (Science) Northrup R. Knox (Humane Letters) David L. Shire (Music) Brian MacMahon (Science) 2006 DISCUSSION Justice Ginsburg Seymour H. Knox III*(Humane Letters) 2016 John B. Slaughter (Science) His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Helen M. Ranney (Science) Leslie G. Ford (Science) Aviva Abramovsky, Dean, School of Law, University at Buffalo (Humane Letters) 1987 Helene D. Gayle (Science) 1997 Steven B. Sample (Science) George Hatem (Science) William Christie (Music) 2017 Robert E. Rich Sr. (Laws) James Holland (Science) 2007 Marc A. Edwards (Science) Amos Tversky (Science) Warren Bennis (Humane Letters) Franklyn G. Knox (Science) Seong-Kon Kim (Humane Letters) Terry Gross (Humane Letters) 1988 Thomas Tomasi (Science) Margaret Hempling McGlynn Louis J. Gerstman (Science) 1998 2008 (Science) Claude Lenfant (Science) James W. McLernon Michael Batty (Humane Letters) Bernard Rands (Music) Maxine Hayes (Science) 1989 (Humane Letters) 2018 Jean Malaurie (Humane Letters) THE HONORABLE John M. Coetzee (Humane Letters) 1999 Gordon L. Amidon (Science) Philip Glass (Music) Wolf Blitzer (Humane Letters) 2009 Robert Peter Gale (Science) J. Mason Davis Jr. (Laws) Abbe Raven (Humane Letters) 1990 Lucille Clifton (Humane Letters) RUTH BADER GINSBURG Herbert A. Hauptman (Science) Margaret W. Wong (Laws) Alonzo Church (Science) Clifton A. Poodry (Science) Irene Zubaida Khan (Laws) ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Ira Michael Heyman 2019 2000 Alan M. Zweibel (Humane Letters) (Humane Letters) Thomas Buergenthal (Laws) Julio M. Fuentes (Laws) Wynton Marsalis (Music) 2010 Rebecca J. McCormick-Boyle 2001 Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Science) 1991 Alison Des Forges (Humane Letters) (Humane Letters) Donald Pinkel (Science) MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 2019 James P. Comer (Humane Letters) Jane Goodall (Science) Barry Glick (Science) Ashutosh Sharma (Science) John W. Gardner (Humane Letters) H. William Lichtenberger Mainstage Theatre, Center for the Arts Steve Reich (Music) Theodoor C. van Boven (Laws) (Humane Letters) North Campus Robert Vince (Science) *Awarded posthumously 1992 William H. Siemering (Humane Letters) Marisol Escobar (Fine Arts) Hatim A. Tyabji (Humane Letters) 19-PRE-008 SATISH K. TRIPATHI KRISTINA M. JOHNSON President, University at Buffalo Chancellor, State University of New York RUTH BADER GINSBURG Associate Justice, An internationally distinguished researcher and higher education leader, Satish K. Tripathi, Kristina M. Johnson, PhD, joined the State University of New York as its 13th chancellor Supreme Court of the United States PhD, was appointed the 15th president of the University at Buffalo in 2011. in September 2017. Immediately prior to joining SUNY, she was co-founder and CEO of Cube Hydro Partners LLC, a clean energy infrastructure company focused on building Tripathi, who served as UB’s provost from 2004 to 2011, was dean of the Bourns College of The second woman appointed to serve on the United and operating hydropower plants in North America. She also previously served as Engineering at the University of California, Riverside, from 1997 to 2004. Previously, he spent 19 undersecretary of energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. States Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg years as a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, including seven years as department chair. has had a profound impact on society as a highly Johnson served as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Johns Hopkins University from 2007 to 2009, Tripathi graduated at the top of his class from Banaras Hindu University. He holds a doctorate and a master’s and as dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University from 1999 to 2007. She received her bachelor’s, master’s accomplished academic and scholar, a renowned jurist, degree in computer science from the University of Toronto, and two master’s degrees in statistics from the University and doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University. After a NATO postdoctoral fellowship at Ireland’s Trinity and an influential advocate for gender equality and of Alberta and BHU. A fellow of the IEEE and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he holds two College, she joined the University of Colorado Boulder’s faculty in 1985 as an assistant professor and, later, full professor. women’s rights. honorary doctorates. Among her many awards and distinctions, Johnson received the Dennis Gabor Prize for creativity and innovation in An active leader in the national higher education community, Tripathi serves as chair of the Mid-American Born in Brooklyn in 1933, Justice Ginsburg attended modern optics (1993) and the John Fritz Medal (2008), widely considered the highest award in engineering. She is a Conference Council of Presidents and on the boards of the NCAA Division I, NCAA Board of Governors, the College Cornell University on a full scholarship. She attended member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Inventors and the National Inventors Hall Football Board of Managers and Internet2. He has also served on the boards of directors for the Association Harvard Law School—one of only nine women in a class of more than 500 students—and served of Fame. She holds 118 U.S. and international patents and has five honorary degrees. of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, and the Council for Higher as the first female member of the Harvard Law Review before transferring to Columbia Law Education Accreditation. School, where she graduated first in her class. Following a District Court clerkship, she chose to follow a path in academia. As a professor of AVIVA ABRAMOVSKY Dean, School of Law, University at Buffalo law at Rutgers University, she became actively involved in women’s rights, co-founding both the MERRYL H. TISCH Acting Chairman, SUNY Board of Trustees ACLU Women’s Rights Project and The Women’s Rights Law Reporter, the first law journal in the Aviva Abramovsky is the law school’s 19th permanent dean and the first woman to hold the position. An expert in insurance law, commercial law, regulation of financial entities, country devoted to issues of gender equality. She later joined the faculty at Columbia University Merryl H. Tisch, EdD, was appointed a member of the State University of New York Board of and legal ethics, she has written numerous articles and legal treatises, including McKinney’s Trustees on June 21, 2017; her term on the board expires June 30, 2020. Law School, where she became its first tenured female professor and wrote the first textbook on Uniform Commercial Code forms for New York. sex discrimination law. One of the nation’s leading voices on education, she served as chancellor of the New York State Abramovsky is the editor of LSN Insurance Law, Legislation, & Policy, and she served as the editor and academic Board of Regents from 2009 to 2016. At the helm of the state’s governing body for education, Tisch adviser for the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal. She contributed to the British Insurance Law Association’s 2013 In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed Justice Ginsburg to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the was responsible for setting education policy and overseeing both public and private education throughout New York. She Book Prize winner, Research Handbook on International Insurance and Regulation. Her scholarship has been District of Columbia Circuit. Thirteen years later, President Bill Clinton announced his nomination was a member of the Board of Regents for 20 years and vice chancellor from 2007 to 2009. recognized as a “litigation essential” by LexisNexis. of Ginsburg as an Associate Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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