Welcome graduates, friends, family, alumni, faculty and staff

Congratulations on completing your degree! We recognize this accomplishment requires a tremendous amount of dedication, sacrifice and extraordinary perseverance in the face of setbacks that happen along the way. This year has been marked by extreme, unique, and unexpected challenges. Nevertheless, you persisted through it all. You should feel immense pride and recognition for this achievement. Even though we celebrated your commencement from a distance, we came together as one UB community. We hope you enjoyed this virtual ceremony. We look forward to staying connected. Keep us posted. We want to know about your future achievements. Thank you for your hard work, dedication to academic excellence, and for everything you have contributed to the university and our GSE community.