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UB RISE Committee

Shannon Hashemi, DBA, Chair
Meredith Gaffney, MPH, Vice Chair
Julie Demers, MA, CRA, Coordinator

UB RISE Subcommittee chairs

Elizabeth Fles, PhD, Fred Ferraro, MS, Vinod Dhar, PhD, Sherri Dente, Esq, Lorraine Taylor (’76), Bill Moran (’74), Eric Lehman, MA, Rebecca Bruckenstein, MA (‘16)

UB RISE members

Michael Ciolfi, DC, Khaled Elleithy, PhD, Amy Nawrocki, MFA, Mohammed Aljamal, MA (‘21), Elizabeth Alves, MEM, Siobhan Blaze, Marco Bonett Matiz, PhD, Deanna DiLuggo, EdD, Fredrick Dombrowski, PhD, Rosaura Frias, MSDH, Maria Gherasimova, PhD, Trina Henderson, Kristy Huntley, PhD, Prathyusha Jaddu, Kevin Kelliher, PhD, Caitlin McGuire, Myia Powell-Baldwin, MA (‘16), Abhi Patel, MSM (’21,’24) Yvrose Romulus, MA (‘16), Nadine Spring, PhD (’06), Stephanie Staffey, MA, Cliff Thermer, EdD, Jennifer Weiss, LAc

Faculty competitive poster judges

Christine Hempowicz, EdD, CRA (’10), Managing Director, McAllister & Quinn

Monette M. Ferguson, EdD (’17), Executive Director, Alliance for Community Empowerment

Vita A. Vernace, PhD, Director Natural Sciences, Goodwin University

UB/GU faculty/staff student poster judges

Jessica Andre, Begum Aliya, Marco Bonett Matiz, Justin Caithaml, John Chick, Julius Dichter, Deana DiLuggo, Donna Eastabrooks, Ahmed El Sayed, Kitty Engelmann, Fred Ferraro, Elizabeth Fles, Rosaura Frias, Ashley Guest, Navarun Gupta, Abu Gafar Hossion, Cassidy Haigh, Kristy Huntley, Kevin Kelliher, Mary Lamothe, Art McAdams, Patricia Mulcahy-Ernt, Leticia Orozco, Mayank Patel, Rachel Rogers, Nadine Spring, Md Khabir Uddin, Jeffrey Vance, Matthew Van Voorhis, Peiqiao Wu, Xingguo Xiong

UB/Goodwin staff volunteers

Begum Aliya, Syamala Aramandla, John Carserino, Allison Chann, Janice Faye, Bill Foglio, Rob Gerowe, Stephen Giambra, Richard Hebert, Truong Ho, Scott Hughes, Matt Kuhar, Ian McDonald, Jack Mindek, Ivan Moreno, Karrie Morin, Jason Sagaci, Enrique Santana, Malhar Sharma, Patricia Varvella, Ben Travers, Trinadh Venna, MS (’16), April Vournelis

UB student judges

Ashama Thapa Magar, Alaina Rinchere, Bipin Dhungana, Bushra Rayyan, Carleen Thomas, Chetna Rana, David Morrissey, Ernest Dinh Cuong Nguyen, Esther Ayodele, Godwin Agyei-Owusu, Hari Sriya, Hillary Deane, Jannatul Ferdaus Liza, Kevin Katrodiya, Likith Reddy, Lucia Tomiello, Mihir Patel, Naima Dewan, Nalini Naidu Gorajana, Nisita Pansuriya, Santosh Thalluri, Shivakantha Naganaik, Venugopal Pentalu

External volunteers

Bruce Lorentzen, Hope Nyarady

UB alumni judges/volunteers

Jim Andrews (’93), Deepalakshmi “Dolly” Balaji (’22), Dennis Brotherton (’86), Hosik Choi, MS (’99, ’07), Garry Hoffman, (’87), Claire Victoria Loe, Marcia Lorentzen, EdD (’76, ’01, ’11), Bill Moran (’74), Gordon Stier (’77), James H. Swain, (’75), Lavanda Wright (’16)

UB Industry Advisory Board members

Jim Andrews (’93), Barbara James (’74, ’77), Bill Moran (’74), Mike Roer (’08), Peter Formanek (’82)

UB Fusion Ensemble: Russell Fisher, Riley Nystrom, Jaydn Sandy, Mya Hall, Tif Serrano, Marvin Fenwick, Samantha Wilson, Barry Tenesaca, Logan Molinari, Evan Solis, Olivia Southwick, Gabriel Vasconez, Marisa Crawford

High school poster advisors

Lindsey McCarthy, Sara Reeves, Amity High School; Kirk Shadle, MS (’06) Bridgeport Regional Vocational Aquaculture School; Shannon Hashemi, DBA, Easton Country Day High School; Sue Dougherty, Stamford High School; Abu Gafar Hossion, The Bridge Academy; Dionne Cross, Warren Harding HS

UB faculty poster advisors

College of Engineering, Business & Education

Abhilasha Tibrewal, MS (’00,’01), Ahmed El-Sayed, PhD (’11, ’16), Arthur McAdams, PhD, Ausif Mahmood, PhD, Dan Tenney, PhD (’20), Jani Macari Pallis, PhD, Junling Hu, PhD, Khaled Elleithy, PhD, Lauren Francese, EdD, Navarun Gupta, PhD, Peiqiao Wu, PhD (’22), Peter Cavanaugh, EdD, Sarosh Patel, PhD (’12), Xingguo Xiong, PhD, Zheng Li, PhD, Ali Baker, PhD, Harold Hartmann, Jr., CFP, Timothy Raynor, DBA, Christopher Szpryngel, PhD, Congsheng Wu, PhD, John Chick, EdD (’10, ’19, ’23), Deana DiLuggo, EdD, Kerry Jones, EdD, Laura Morello, EdD, Patricia Mulcahy-Ernt, PhD, Jeffrey Vance EdD, (’18)

College of Health Sciences

Robert Femminella, PhD, Meghan Gonick, ND, MSAC, Lisa Laughlin, Michelle Lea, PA-C, Nadine Spring, PhD (’06), Margaret Zayan

College of Science & Society

Michael Brelsford, Abu Gafar Hossion, PhD, Cassidy Haigh, PhD, David Peterson, EdD, Spiros Katsifis, PhD