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COVID-19 UPDATES • 5/12/2022
The UB Alumni Association (UBAA) will honor alumni who have brought distinction to the university at the 2022 UBAA Achievement Awards program to be held at 6 p.m. June 2 at the Marriott Buffalo Niagara in Amherst. UB President Satish K. Tripathi and Dharshan Jayasinghe, CEL ’12, BA ’03, president of the alumni association's board of directors, will present the awards.
Honorees will include Jean Alberti, PhD ’70, EdM ’62, an educator and clinical psychologist, who will accept the association’s highest honor, the Samuel P. Capen Award. She coined the phrase “bullying abuse” and developed groundbreaking theories on bullying. In 2010 she established the Dr. Jean M. Alberti Center for the Prevention of Bullying Abuse and School Violence at the Graduate School of Education.
The College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award will be presented to Ellen Baker, BA ’74, a 30-year veteran of NASA and a medical doctor. She flew on three space shuttle missions, including the 1989 mission that launched the Galileo space probe to study Jupiter. Baker connects academic specialists with health care providers in rural and underserved communities at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Other alumni being honored are:
Details on the awardees and the event are available on the UBAA website. Tickets are $75 (individual) and $600 (tables of eight). Registration deadline is May 19.
The UBAA, a volunteer-led international organization, fosters pride, spirit and tradition among the university’s 287,000-plus graduates.
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