Search Committee Members

Presidential Search Committee

Jerry Jacobs, Chair, Presidential Search Committee, UB Council Chair; Chief Executive Officer, Delaware North               

Rachel Ablow, Professor, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences

Gregory M. Bauer, BS ’82, Chair UB Foundation Board of Trustees

Aisha Bechir, President, Student Association

Clara Bradizza, Professor, School of Social Work

Guyora Binder, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Hodgson Russ Scholar, School of Law

Donald Boyd, MBA ’97, President and CEO, Kaleida Health

Michael Cropp, MBA ’03, UB Council member and President and CEO, Independent Health

Jonathan Dandes, BS ’74, UB Council member and Corporate Vice President, Rich Products Corporation

Jacqueline Hollins, PhD ’25, BS ’94, Associate Vice Provost for Student Success and Academic Support

Lara Hutson, Teaching Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences

Donna Linderman, Senior Vice Chancellor for Student Success, the State University of New York

Sarah MacDougall, President, Graduate Student Association

Eileen Marutiak, BA ’06, President of UB Alumni Association

Brenda McDuffie, UB Council member and Buffalo Urban League (retired)

Thomas Melendy, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, and Biochemistry, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker Ed.M. ‘00, Consultant, Former President/CEO, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo

 Jennifer Read, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Chair, Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences

Sanjay Sethi, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of Medicine; Senior Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research; Director, Clinical and Translational Science Institute; Director, Clinical Research Office; Division Chief, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine; Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Mark Swihart, SUNY Distinguished Professor, SUNY Empire Innovation Professor – RENEW Institute, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Jean Wactawski-Wende, PhD ’89, Dean, School of Public Health and Health Professions

Jinjun Xiong,  IEEE Fellow SUNY Empire Innovation Professor; Director, UB Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science; Scientific Director, National AI Institute for Exceptional Education: AI Thrust Lead, National Center for Early Literary and Responsible AI (CELaRAI); Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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