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