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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sessions | Roger | 1962 | Doctor of Music | |
| Dougherty | John Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Neuberger | Maurine Brown | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| White | Ruth Patricia | 1962 | Master of Fine Arts | |
| Auchter | George David | 1962 | Doctor of Science | |
| Morrow | John Howard | 1963 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Martin | George Willard | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wayne | Edward Anthony | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Baron | Salo Wittmayer | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Weaver | Robert Clifton | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wu | Chien-Shiung | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Bender | Carl Beitel | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Perkins | James A. | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wescott | Glenway | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Miers | Earl Schenck | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Rubinstein | Arthur | 1963 | Doctor of Music | |
| Block | Herbert Lawrence | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Engstrom | Elmer W. | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hellman | Lillian | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Reese | Everett David | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Katzenbach | Nicholas deBelleville | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brown | Harrison Scott | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| McFarland | Ross Armstrong | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Bryan | James Edmund | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Tatum | Edward Lawrie | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Shahn | Ben | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Betancourt | Romulo | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Blackman | Samuel Garrison | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Conn | Jerome W. | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Nicolson | Marjorie Hope | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Connor | John Thomas | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Frederic William | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Randolph | Asa Philip | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cowdrey | Mary Bartlett | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Smithers | Robert Brinkley | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Holderman | Pauline Beatrice | 1965 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Martin, Jr. | William McChesney | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis | William Arthur | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Knowles | Francis | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lowell | Robert | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hyde | Mary Morley Crapo | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Trager | William | 1965 | Doctor of Science | |
| Jacobs | Nathan Leonard | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Epstein | Benjamin | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Marin | Luis Muñoz | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fair | Gordon Maskew | 1965 | Doctor of Science | |
| Rees | Mina | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Ferguson, Jr. | Clarence Clyde | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Walter | F. Austin | 1966 | Doctor of Music | |
| Warren | Earl | 1966 | Doctor of Laws |