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2021 SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT C O M M E N C E M E N T Graduate Ceremony Undergraduate Ceremony Friday, May 14 Saturday, May 15 5:00 P.M. 9:00 A.M. UB Stadium UB Stadium North Campus North Campus Paul E. Tesluk Dean 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 Processional Remarks Selections of Pomp and Circumstance George G. Chamoun from Sir Edward Elgar CEO, ACV Auctions Open Declaration Conferring of Academic Degrees Paul E. Tesluk A. Scott Weber Dean, School of Management UB Alma Mater National Anthem Anna Fernandez, BFA ‘21 Anna Fernandez, BFA ‘21 Closing Declaration Greetings Paul E. Tesluk A. Scott Weber Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Recessional Selections of Pomp and Circumstance Remarks from Sir Edward Elgar Paul E. Tesluk 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 Buffalo’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 affairs, communications and external affairs, 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 fine 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 Buffalo 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 Buffalo. 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 Buffalo 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 Buffalo 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. Playoff 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 the International Academy of administration, from UB. A longtime friend and supporter of UB, Cardiology, the American Heart Association’s Economic Development Council, a position he bachelor’s and master’s of science degrees Jacobs has served as chairman, trustee and Arthur E. Strauss Award, the 2012 Resident/ held until 2017. in civil engineering from Virginia director of the UB Foundation, chairman of Fellow Achievement Award from Washington Polytechnical Institute and a PhD in civil the President’s Board of Visitors and adviser University School of Medicine and the 2013 engineering from the University of to the School of Management. Leadership Buffalo Value Award for Inclusion. California, Davis. 4 COMMENCEMENT 2021 20204 COMMENCEMENT 2020 5 UB Dental 20v9 for Print:. 5/20/20 8:03 AM Page 5 A. Scott Weber MichaelPaul E. Tesluk E. Cain Joseph J. Zambon, DDS, PhD Provost and Executive Vice President ViceDean
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    IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) Volume 22, Issue 10, Ver. VII (October. 2017) PP 78-83 e-ISSN: 2279-0837, p-ISSN: 2279-0845. www.iosrjournals.org The Portrait of the Goddess in the Kalika Purana Rashmi Rekha Bhuyan [email protected], [email protected] Dept. of History Dibrugarh University Dibrugarh, India-786004 Abstract: The Kalika Purana is a Hindu religious text belongs to the genre Puranic literature. Written around the 10th-11th century AD in Sanskrit the text celebrates the power of the divine feminine in her various manifestations centering round the goddess Kamakhya or Kalika. To this day it is used in the worship of the goddess and is greatly revered by her devotees. In the text the goddess is portrayed as the supreme deity who can manifest in various forms in accordance with the need of the time. Sometimes she is associated with the male gods as consort; at some other episodes she is independent and superior to male gods. This paper attempts to discuss the different forms of the goddess discernible in the Kalika Purana. Keywords: Kalika, Kamakhya, Goddess, Saktism, Upa Purana ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Date of Submission: 05-09-2017 Date of acceptance: 18-10-2017 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- I. INTRODUCTION The Puranas, a set of religious texts, do share certain characteristics which mark them as a distinct genre of literature in Hinduism. Though traditionally acclaimed as eighteen in number, the real number of texts having the suffix Purana are more than this. Considering eighteen Puranas as „Great Purana‟ (though there are some discrepancy in lists), the other Puranas are given the title of „Upa Purana‟.