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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burnell | S. Jocelyn Bell | 2016 | Doctor of Science | |
| Persichilli | Judith | 2022 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hutchins | John Richard, III | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gelfand | Israel Moiseevich | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Luria | Salvador Edward | 1970 | Doctor of Science | |
| Ackerman | Roger G. | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cole | William Harder | 1957 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wilson | William Julius | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lasagna | Louis | 1983 | Doctor of Science | |
| Reilly | Hilda Christine | 1966 | Doctor of Science | |
| Watson | James Dewey | 1988 | Doctor of Science | |
| Colwell | Rita R. | 2005 | Doctor of Science | |
| Witkin | Evelyn M. | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Stevens | Rosemary A. | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Scott | Eugenie C. | 2007 | Doctor of Science | |
| Jackson | Shirley Ann | 1999 | Doctor of Science | |
| Miller | Neal E. | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Burton | Glenn Willard | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hedefine | Alfred | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Conn | Jerome W. | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Pauling | Linus | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Stewart | William Huffman | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lederberg | Joshua | 1981 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hicks | Arthur James | 2017 | Doctor of Science | |
| Heidelberger | Michael | 1961 | Doctor of Science | |
| Payne-Gaposchkin | Cecelia | 1968 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hardt | Robert Andrew | 1956 | Doctor of Philosophy | |
| Copland | Aaron | 1967 | Doctor of Music | |
| Anderson | Marian | 1957 | Doctor of Music | |
| Sessions | Roger | 1962 | 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 | |
| Reese | Gustave | 1972 | Doctor of Music | |
| Walter | F. Austin | 1966 | Doctor of Music | |
| Mendel | Arthur | 1973 | Doctor of Music | |
| Blume | Judy | 2010 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Ellison | Ralph Waldo | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Ringgold | Faith | 2009 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Weeks | Edward A. | 1962 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Mailer | Norman | 1969 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Pearson | Paul G. | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Mitchell | Eleanor | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Stimpson | Catharine R. | 2004 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hellman | Lillian | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Marchand | Leslie Alexis | 1981 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hinojosa | Maria | 2022 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Jensen | Merril | 1976 | Doctor of Letters |
