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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auchter | George David | 1962 | Doctor of Science | |
| Weeks | Edward A. | 1962 | Doctor of Letters | |
| White | Ruth Patricia | 1962 | Master of Fine Arts | |
| Myers | Chauncie Kilmer | 1962 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Sessions | Roger | 1962 | Doctor of Music | |
| Hellman | Lillian | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bender | Carl Beitel | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Rubinstein | Arthur | 1963 | Doctor of Music | |
| Morrow | John Howard | 1963 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Martin | George Willard | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wu | Chien-Shiung | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Block | Herbert Lawrence | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Engstrom | Elmer W. | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wescott | Glenway | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Wayne | Edward Anthony | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Weaver | Robert Clifton | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Perkins | James A. | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Miers | Earl Schenck | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Baron | Salo Wittmayer | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Brown | Harrison Scott | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Bryan | James Edmund | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Betancourt | Romulo | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nicolson | Marjorie Hope | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Smith | Frederic William | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Katzenbach | Nicholas deBelleville | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Randolph | Asa Philip | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Blackman | Samuel Garrison | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Smithers | Robert Brinkley | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Conn | Jerome W. | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Connor | John Thomas | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reese | Everett David | 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 | |
| Marin | Luis Muñoz | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Trager | William | 1965 | Doctor of Science | |
| Holderman | Pauline Beatrice | 1965 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Martin, Jr. | William McChesney | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis | William Arthur | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rees | Mina | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| 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 | |
| Jacobs | Nathan Leonard | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brower | Charles Hendrickson | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sills | Arthur J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Coffey | Katherine Frances | 1966 | Doctor of Fine Arts |