Past Rutgers University Honorary Degree Recipients
This list of honorary degree recipients is sortable by last name, year conferred, and degree type. Click on the title of the column to sort the list by that particular content.
We have added the honorary degree citations for some of our recipients. Click on the Citation images, where shown, to read them.
| Last name | First name |
Year |
Degree | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Myers | Chauncie Kilmer | 1962 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Hughes | Richard Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sessions | Roger | 1962 | Doctor of Music | |
| Auchter | George David | 1962 | Doctor of Science | |
| Neuberger | Maurine Brown | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hellman | Lillian | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Wu | Chien-Shiung | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Bender | Carl Beitel | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Martin | George Willard | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Morrow | John Howard | 1963 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Wescott | Glenway | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Wayne | Edward Anthony | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Block | Herbert Lawrence | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Weaver | Robert Clifton | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Engstrom | Elmer W. | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Perkins | James A. | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rubinstein | Arthur | 1963 | Doctor of Music | |
| Miers | Earl Schenck | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Baron | Salo Wittmayer | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Brown | Harrison Scott | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Smith | Frederic William | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Randolph | Asa Philip | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bryan | James Edmund | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Smithers | Robert Brinkley | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Betancourt | Romulo | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reese | Everett David | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Katzenbach | Nicholas deBelleville | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Blackman | Samuel Garrison | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Conn | Jerome W. | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Connor | John Thomas | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cowdrey | Mary Bartlett | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| McFarland | Ross Armstrong | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Tatum | Edward Lawrie | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Shahn | Ben | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Nicolson | Marjorie Hope | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Marin | Luis Muñoz | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rees | Mina | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Holderman | Pauline Beatrice | 1965 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Martin, Jr. | William McChesney | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis | William Arthur | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Epstein | Benjamin | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Knowles | Francis | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fair | Gordon Maskew | 1965 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lowell | Robert | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hyde | Mary Morley Crapo | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Trager | William | 1965 | Doctor of Science | |
| Jacobs | Nathan Leonard | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brower | Charles Hendrickson | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yanitelli | Victor Robert, S.J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Coffey | Katherine Frances | 1966 | Doctor of Fine Arts |