SUNY Niagara's president Dr. Holmes smiling at a podium in blue and yellow graduation robes around flowers holding hands with two people

39. Special Event or Fundraising Campaign (Inauguration)

This yahoo!news article, originally published in the Niagara Gazette, is representative of the media coverage that the presidential inauguration received.


This website served as the nexus of information and engagement around the inauguration ramping up to his investiture.


Members of SUNY Niagara and community watch an art show be revealed the week of the President's Inauguration.

A gallery opening and exhibition during the week of his inauguration reflected one of the president’s personal interests: collecting art.


SUNY Niagara's Inauguration reception with hundreds of people in a large room with balloons and food

Over 200 guests attended the reception following the investiture, which featured catering by the college’s Niagara Falls Culinary Institute.


Group of SUNY Niagara employees smiling at the camera in black graduation robes

Dr. Lloyd Holmes stands between two trustees of the State University of New York just prior to processing into the investiture ceremony.


Photo of SUNY Niagara's Inauguration Invitation's on a desk with a picture of SUNY Niagara's president Dr. Holmes

The investiture program presented the event’s theme, “Hope.”


The college’s Welding Technology program fabricated a stainless-steel sculpture, now permanently installed, to memorialize the inauguration.