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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cuthbertson | David Paton | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Quimby | Edith Hinkley | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Klein | Lawrence R. | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| David, Jr. | Edward E. | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Leakey | Richard E. | 2014 | Doctor of Science | |
| Branscomb | Lewis McAdory | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fisk | James Brown | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gould | Stephen Jay | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Rauscher, Jr. | Frank Joseph | 1973 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fiske | Jessie Gladys | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lindzey | Gardner | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Baker | William Oliver | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Raven | Peter Hamilton | 1988 | Doctor of Science | |
| McFarland | Ross Armstrong | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Schaaf | Royal Albert | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Kohn | Walter | 2001 | Doctor of Science | |
| Osborn | June E. | 1994 | Doctor of Science | |
| Nye | William Sanford | 2015 | Doctor of Science | |
| Read | Hilton Shreve | 1961 | Doctor of Science | |
| Waelsch | Salome Gluecksohn | 1998 | Doctor of Science | |
| Brinster | Ralph L. | 2000 | Doctor of Science | |
| Schein | Philip S. | 2006 | Doctor of Science | |
| Komp | William H.W. | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lipscomb | William Nunn | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Garrett | Laurie | 2021 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lorenz | Edward Norton | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hardt | Robert Andrew | 1956 | Doctor of Philosophy | |
| Reese | Gustave | 1972 | Doctor of Music | |
| Walter | F. Austin | 1966 | Doctor of Music | |
| Mendel | Arthur | 1973 | Doctor of Music | |
| Sessions | Roger | 1962 | Doctor of Music | |
| Copland | Aaron | 1967 | Doctor of Music | |
| Anderson | Marian | 1957 | Doctor of Music | |
| Gillespie | John Birks | 1970 | Doctor of Music | |
| Lewis | Henry | 1969 | Doctor of Music | |
| Rubinstein | Arthur | 1963 | Doctor of Music | |
| Horne | Marilyn | 1971 | Doctor of Music | |
| Ormandy | Eugene | 1960 | Doctor of Music | |
| Ackerman | Raymond | 2016 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Meier | August | 1994 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hannah-Jones | Nikole | 2022 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Wilson | August | 1996 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Melcher | Frederic Gershom | 1958 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Franklin | John Hope | 1990 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Lowell | Robert | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Schlesinger, Jr. | Arthur M. | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hyde | Mary Morley Crapo | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Winkler | Henry R. | 1977 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Ifill | Gwen | 2008 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Miers | Earl Schenck | 1963 | Doctor of Letters |
