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The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at �鶹ֱ�� is pleased to announce that U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren will deliver the Law School’s commencement address at its 45^th Commencement Ceremony, to be held on May 15, 2023 at the in Queens. Senator Warren and Harvard Law Professor and Legal Historian Bruce H. Mann will both receive the Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, the highest honor conferred by the Law School, recognizing their lifelong contributions to public service and the legal profession.

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at �鶹ֱ�� honored three distinguished leaders of the legal community, as well as outstanding alumni, during its 28^th Annual Law Leadership Dinner, held at the Westchester Country Club on March 7, 2023. The celebration was one of the law school’s most successful fundraisers in history, raising vital funds in support of student scholarships, faculty research, and innovative programs.

Following a national search, Joseph R. Franco, Ph.D., has been appointed provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at �鶹ֱ��, the University announced on Wednesday.

�鶹ֱ�� alumnus , a celebrated fashion designer and founder of the label Telfar, will address �鶹ֱ��’s Commencement 2023 and receive an honorary doctorate. will address the Elisabeth Haub School of Law graduating class. In addition, Sen. Warren and Harvard Law Professor and legal historian Bruce H. Mann will both receive honorary degrees. Trustee and alumnus Ivan G. Seidenberg ’81, retired chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications, will address graduates of �鶹ֱ��’s Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems to mark the school’s 40th anniversary.

The Madness of March returns to �鶹ֱ�� once again: For the first time in school history the �鶹ֱ�� Men's Basketball team earns back-to-back NCAA championship berths as the Setters heard their name called in Sunday night's Selection Show on NCAA.com. �鶹ֱ�� received the No. 5 seed in the East Region and will face No. 4 seed and fellow Northeast-10 Conference foe University of New Haven.

�鶹ֱ��’s Lubin School of Business, in collaboration with AnD Ventures, recently launched the �鶹ֱ�� Entrepreneurship Studio (PES) with the mission to support �鶹ֱ�� students, faculty, staff and alumni in taking their compelling business ideas or ventures from concept to company.

�鶹ֱ�� Seidenberg School of CSIS Professor Zhan Zhang, PhD, recently received a $499,966 grant from the (NSF) to develop touchless smart glasses that will allow emergency care professionals to collect data, communicate with other specialists, and pull up medical protocol checklists with a gesture of the head or through voice controls. They’ll no longer need to take their hands—or their eyes—off the patient or risk transferring germs to and from a computer keyboard.

�鶹ֱ�� on Wednesday hosted its annual LGBTQA+ Pride Hoops Night, a collaboration between �鶹ֱ��'s Office of Gender & Sexuality and �鶹ֱ�� Athletics. The tradition began in 2016, following the tragedy at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, to make a bold and positive statement to address hate and show that �鶹ֱ�� is a welcoming and supportive institution to the LGBTQA+ community.

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at �鶹ֱ�� is proud to announce that Karl Coplan, Professor of Law Emeritus and Director of �鶹ֱ�� Environmental Litigation Clinic at Haub Law, along with Achinthi Vithanage, Associate Director of Environmental Law Programs & Professor at Haub Law, were named to the .

Jorge Islas López, Consul General of Mexico in New York, delivered the 2023 Blaine Sloan Lecture on International Law on Wednesday, February 1, speaking on "The Consular Duty and the Protection of Human Rights in New York.” The Blaine Sloan Lecture on International Law honors F. Blaine Sloan for developing the international law studies program at �鶹ֱ��. Consul General Islas López is also Giovanni Sartori Constitutional Law Professor, National Autonomous University of Mexico.