University at Buffalo - The State University of New York

Published: July 15, 2004

By ARTHUR PAGE
Assistant Vice President

Planning is under way for the investiture of John B. Simpson as UB's 14th president, with the ceremony set for 3 p.m. on Oct. 15 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.

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In celebration of the inauguration of this new chapter of the university's history, special events will be held at UB throughout the month of October. Details about the investiture and inaugural events will be included on the presidential inauguration Web site, http://www.buffalo.edu/inauguration, as they become available.

Planning for the event is under the direction of a 19-member inauguration committee appointed by Jeremy M. Jacobs, chair of the UB Council, and Reginald B. Newman II, chair of the board of trustees of the University at Buffalo Foundation.

Co-chairing the committee are Stephen C. Dunnett, vice provost for international education; Carole Smith Petro, associate vice president and general manager of WBFO 88.7 FM, and James A. (Beau) Willis, chief of staff in the Office of the President and special assistant to President Simpson.

The other committee members are: Dennis R. Black, vice president for student affairs; David Brooks, a second-year medical student who is student representative on the UB Council; Thomas B. Burrows, Jr., director of the Center for the Arts; Eileen Cain Sherman, coordinator for constituency relations and development in the Office of Student Affairs; Diane R. Christian, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences; Kathryn A. Foster, associate professor and chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning in the School of Architecture of Planning, and Danis J. Gehl, director of the University Community Initiative.

Also, Mary H. Gresham, vice president for public service and urban affairs and dean of the Graduate School of Education; Linda A. Hershey, professor of neurology and pharmacology and toxicology in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; Jennifer A. McDonough, vice president for university advancement; W. David Penniman, dean of the School of Informatics; Jean C. Powers, a member of the board of trustees of the UB Foundation; Charles L. Stinger, senior associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences and professor in the Department of History; Satish K. Tripathi, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs; A. Scott Weber, director of the UB Center for Integrated Waste Management and professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Jennifer B. Wozniak, president of the UB Alumni Association.