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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Larsen | Ralph S. | 1991 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Anderson | Adrienne Scotchbrook | 1991 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Anderson | Philip Warren | 1991 | Doctor of Science | |
| Bongiovanni | Michael | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Carter | Bennett Lester | 1991 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Ginsburg | Ruth Bader | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wideman | John Edgar | 1991 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Lichtenstein | Roy | 1990 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Franklin | John Hope | 1990 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Voorhees | Ralph W. | 1990 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lorenz | Edward Norton | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Geltman | Samuel | 1990 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Caldicott | Helen | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Bragg | Floyd Herman | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Florio | James J. | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wilson | Blenda Jacqueline | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dresselhaus | Mildred S. | 1989 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gregorian | Vartan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Allen | Robert E. | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Heningburg | Gustave | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Whitehead | John C. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Baker | Russell Wayne | 1989 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Cavazos | Lauro F. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Proctor | Samuel DeWitt | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Dickerson | Donald MacMillan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Raven | Peter Hamilton | 1988 | Doctor of Science | |
| Woodward | C. Vann | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| McPhee | John Angus | 1988 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Watson | James Dewey | 1988 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lawrence | Jacob | 1988 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Yasuhiro | Nakasone | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Commager | Henry Steele | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Werblin | David A. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lerner | Gerda | 1988 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Shapiro | Harold T. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Norton | Eleanor Holmes | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gould | Stephen Jay | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Aidekman | Alex | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Roebling | Mary Gindhart | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Rohrer | Heinrick | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Roth | Philip | 1987 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hopper | Grace Murray | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Williams | Joseph D. | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Smith | Margaret Chase | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Paley | William S. | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Cohen | Wilbur J. | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reitman | Norman | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Edelman | Marian Wright | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Scott | Hugh | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ribicoff | Abraham | 1986 | Doctor of Laws |
