VOLUME 33, NUMBER 27 |
THURSDAY,
May 2, 2002 |
Baker, Toles to receive SUNY degrees
156th
general commencement, 13 other ceremonies to be held May 10-12 and May
24
By
SUE WUETCHER
Reporter Editor
Astronaut
Ellen Shulman Baker and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Tom Toles
will receive honorary degrees from the State University of New York
during UB's 156th general commencement ceremony, to be held at 10 a.m.
May 12 in Alumni Arena, North Campus.
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Some
6,000 students are candidates to receive degrees during the general
commencement and 13 other ceremonies to be held May 10-12, and on May
24.
UB's
highest award, the Chancellor Charles P. Norton Medal, will be presented
posthumously at the general commencement ceremony to Lawrence D. Jacobs,
former professor and chair of the Department of Neurology and a world-renowned
researcher in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (to go to story, click
here).
Speaking
at the ceremony will be President William R. Greiner and graduating
senior Naniette H. Coleman.
Greiner
and Provost Elizabeth D. Capaldi will confer degrees.
Eleven
students will be recognized during the general commencement.
To
receive the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence are David
P. Bartels, Melissa A. Burgio, Amy E. Fuller, Preethi Govindaraj, Jenna
K. Kennan and Coleman.
Coleman
also will receive the Division of Student Affairs Senior Leadership
Award.
Four
graduates will receive the College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Outstanding
Senior Awards: Allan J. Mangaser in the arts, Jenna D. Lay in the humanities,
Brian N. Tse in science and mathematics, and Jocelyn R. Bell in the
social and behavioral sciences. They are among the top students named
from the 27 departments in the college, who also will be recognized
at the ceremony.
Vocalist
at the general commencement will be Carolyn Unitas Roos.
Both
Baker and Toles are UB graduates.
Baker,
who will receive a SUNY honorary Doctor of Science degree, earned a
bachelor's degree in geology from UB in 1974.
As
a civilian astronaut with NASA since 1985, she has logged nearly 12
million miles over the course of three space missions. A specialist
in internal medicine who received her medical degree from Cornell University,
her in-flight research focuses on the physiological effects of space
travel.
A
star swimmer and 1994 inductee into the UB Alumni Association's Athletic
Hall of Fame, she becameas a freshmanthe first UB woman
to place in a national collegiate athletic championship.
Toles,
who will receive a SUNY honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree, is
a Buffalo native and one of the nation's most acclaimed editorial cartoonists.
As a freshman at UB, he was graphic arts editor of the Spectrum, a position
he held until he graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree
in English in 1973.
Upon
graduation, he was hired by the Buffalo Courier Express. When
that paper closed in 1982, he became the editorial cartoonist for The
Buffalo News and, in the same year, signed a contract with Universal
Press Syndicate.
Since
then, his cartoons have appeared in more than 200 North American newspapers.
His insightful social commentary has earned him some of journalism's
highest accolades, including the Pulitzer Prize and the H.L. Mencken
Free Press Award.
Toles
soon will begin work as the editorial cartoonist for The Washington
Post, replacing Herbert L. Block, known as Herblock.
In
addition to the general commenceremony, UB will hold 13 other commencement
ceremonies:
- Graduate
School, 1 p.m., May 10, Center for the Arts, North Campus. The speaker
will be Bruce A. Holm, senior vice provost. Capaldi will confer degrees.
- School
of Health Related Professions, 9 a.m., May 11, Alumni Arena. The speaker
will be Stephen L. Wilson, director of the School of Allied Medical
Professions and associate dean of the College of Medicine and Public
Health at Ohio State University. Michael E. Bernardino, vice president
for health affairs, will confer degrees.
- School
of Social Work, 9 a.m., May 11, Center for the Arts. New York State
Sen. Byron W. Brown will speak. Kerry S. Grant, vice provost for academic
affairs and dean of the graduate school, will confer degrees.
- School
of Nursing, 9 a.m., May 11, Slee Concert Hall, North Campus. Loretta
Ford, former dean of the University of Rochester School of Nursing,
will speak. Greiner will confer degrees.
- School
of Informatics, 10 a.m., May 11, Student Union Theatre, North Campus.
The speaker will be Jose-Marie Griffiths, Doreen E. Boyce Chair and
director of the Sara Fine Institute for Interpersonal Communication
and Technology in the School of Information Sciences at the University
of Pittsburgh. Kenneth J. Levy, senior vice provost, will confer degrees.
- School
of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 1 p.m., May 11, Alumni Arena.
Mark Karwan, dean of the school, will speak. Grant will confer degrees.
- Law
School, 1 p.m., May 11, Center for the Arts. The speaker will be Herman
Schwartz, professor of law at American University and a former UB
law faculty member. Greiner will confer degrees.
- School
of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 1 p.m., May 11, Slee Concert
Hall. Wayne K. Anderson, dean of the school, will speak. Bernardino
will confer degrees.
- School
of Architecture and Planning, 2 p.m., May 11, Hayes Hall lawn, South
Campus. Frances Bronet, associate dean and professor of architecture
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and president of the American
Collegiate Schools of Architecture, will speak. Levy will confer degrees.
- School
of Management, 5 p.m., May 11, Alumni Arena. Jerry M. Newman, interim
dean of the school and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, will
speak. Grant will confer degrees.
- Graduate
School of Education, 5 p.m., May 11, Center for the Arts. Adelaide
H. Sanford, New York State regent, will speak. Greiner will confer
degrees.
- School
of Dental Medicine, 2 p.m., May 12, Center for the Arts. The speaker
will be Lawrence A. Tabak, director of the National Institute of Dental
and Craniofacial Research. Bernardino will confer degrees.
- School
of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, 2 p.m., May 24, Center for the
Arts. Antonia Novello, New York State health commissioner, will speak.
Bernardino, who also serves as dean of the medical school, will confer
degrees.
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