Honorary degrees will also be granted to U.S. Ambassador to Greece R. Nicholas Burns, CBS' 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft and software engineering researcher Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, BA '70. Reiser, who earned his bachelor of fine arts with a major in piano and composition from Binghamton in 1977, will be conferred with the honorary doctor of humane letters at the morning ceremony for Harpur College of Arts and Sciences. He will also give the Commencement address at that ceremony. Reiser has appeared in several feature films including Diner, but his most famous role to date was that of Paul Buchman in the NBC series Mad About You. The Blindman's Daughter.
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