Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown and Peter Giambrone ‘78 announced as Commencement speakers

Commencement speakers for the graduate and undergraduate ceremonies, to be held on Friday, May 16 at Kleinhans Music Hall, have been announced.

Byron W. Brown, Mayor of Buffalo, will speak to graduating students in the master’s degree programs for mental health counseling, psychology, education, business administration and organizational leadership at 1 p.m. As the 58th Mayor of the City of Buffalo, he came into office emphasizing greater accountability and efficiency in City Hall, improving the quality of life for all city residents and a commitment to strengthening and expanding the city’s economic development activities. A surge of economic development activity has also followed Mayor Brown’s election, including over $4.5 billion in planned, ongoing or completed development projects occurring throughout the City since 2006. More »

Peter Giambrone ‘78, a graduate of the media/communication program, will speak at the undergraduate ceremony, scheduled for 7 p.m. With a career in the field of new media, he has over thirty years of practice in the art and science of emerging and transformational media. As a successful entrepreneur and executive manager, he has committed himself in the most recent fifteen years of his career to business development focusing on advanced visualization for total immersion, augmented and virtual reality media. More »


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