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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ericsson | Aprille Joy | 2022 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wretlind | Arvid | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| Solow | Robert M. | 1994 | Doctor of Science | |
| Makadon | Harvey J. | 2017 | Doctor of Science | |
| Jemison | Mae C. | 2001 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cherkasky | Martin | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wall | Monroe E. | 1999 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wu | Chien-Shiung | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Bender | Carl Beitel | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Djerassi | Carl | 2010 | Doctor of Science | |
| Yalow | Rosalyn S. | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| Brown | Harrison Scott | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Margulis | Lynn | 2004 | Doctor of Science | |
| Benson | Ezra Taft | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Nelson | Alondra | 2022 | Doctor of Science | |
| Reilly | Hilda Christine | 1966 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lerner | Irwin | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Stevens | Rosemary A. | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Mario | Ernest | 1992 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lavizzo-Mourey | Risa J. | 2018 | Doctor of Science | |
| Watson | James Dewey | 1988 | Doctor of Science | |
| Scott | Eugenie C. | 2007 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cleary | Edward John | 1959 | Doctor of Science | |
| Morrison | Philip | 1977 | Doctor of Science | |
| Dresselhaus | Mildred S. | 1989 | Doctor of Science | |
| Pauling | Linus | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Stewart | William Huffman | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| Payne-Gaposchkin | Cecelia | 1968 | Doctor of Science | |
| Moxon | Rosamond Sawyer | 1958 | Master of Arts | |
| Kenyon | Lee John | 1955 | Master of Arts | |
| MacCarter | Beatrice Bouchier | 1958 | Master of Arts | |
| Snedeker | Chester Wesley | 1955 | Master of Arts | |
| White | Ruth Patricia | 1962 | Master of Fine Arts | |
| Everett | Thomas Henry | 1959 | Master of Science |
