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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sato | Gordon Hisashi | 2007 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bildner | Joan L. | 2007 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Gamper, Jr. | Albert R. | 2007 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Ebadi | Shirin | 2007 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Scott | Eugenie C. | 2007 | Doctor of Science | |
| Leahy | Edwin D. | 2007 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Baker | William Franklin | 2008 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Matsepe-Casaburri | Ivy F. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Singer | Wolf | 2008 | Doctor of Science | |
| Ryan | Arthur F. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ifill | Gwen | 2008 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Ringgold | Faith | 2009 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Rollins | Sonny | 2009 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Koeppe | Alfred C. | 2009 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Zimbardo | Philip G. | 2009 | Doctor of Science | |
| Eckō | Marc | 2009 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Blume | Judy | 2010 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Sirleaf | Ellen Johnson | 2010 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smeal | Eleanor Cutri | 2010 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Howard, Jr. | M. William | 2010 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Djerassi | Carl | 2010 | Doctor of Science | |
| Christie | Chris | 2010 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cortés, Jr. | Ernesto J. | 2011 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Morrison | Toni | 2011 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Warren | Elizabeth | 2011 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ellison | Brooke Mackenzie | 2011 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Arroyo | Martina | 2012 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Lewis | Shireen K. | 2012 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Brown | Greg | 2012 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| McCormick | Richard L. | 2012 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bunch | Lonnie G. | 2013 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Izzo | Ralph | 2013 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Long | Virginia | 2013 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lubchenco | Jane | 2013 | Doctor of Science | |
| Harvey | Gerald C. | 2014 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Katz | Donald | 2014 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Leakey | Richard E. | 2014 | Doctor of Science | |
| Brenner | Jeffrey | 2014 | Doctor of Science | |
| Bon Jovi | Jon | 2015 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Lewis | Earl | 2015 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Nye | William Sanford | 2015 | Doctor of Science | |
| Piven | Frances Fox | 2015 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Stevenson | Bryan A. | 2015 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ackerman | Raymond | 2016 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Burnell | S. Jocelyn Bell | 2016 | Doctor of Science | |
| Coomaraswamy | Rajhika | 2016 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Moyers | Bill | 2016 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Obama | Barack H. | 2016 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Scullion | Sister Mary | 2016 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hayden | Carla D. | 2017 | Doctor of Letters |
