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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baskin | Leonard | 1969 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Lilley | Robert Dodd | 1970 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Wicker | Thomas Grey | 1970 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Luria | Salvador Edward | 1970 | Doctor of Science | |
| Meyerson | Martin | 1970 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Heckel | Charles Willard | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cahill | William T. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jones | Franklin Taylor | 1970 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Boyd | Hugh Newell | 1970 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Seaborg | Glenn T. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Segal | George | 1970 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Gillespie | John Birks | 1970 | Doctor of Music | |
| Gross | Mason Welch | 1971 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Horne | Marilyn | 1971 | Doctor of Music | |
| Nevelson | Louise | 1972 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Brown | Raymond A. | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kreeger | David Lloyd | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bishop | Elizabeth | 1972 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Waldheim | Kurt | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Allen | Clara L. | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Reese | Gustave | 1972 | Doctor of Music | |
| Johnson | Leonard C. | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bowen | William Gordon | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Levine | William | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Zworykin | Vladimir K. | 1972 | Doctor of Science | |
| Nader | Ralph | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Beal | Orville E. | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Abdellah | Faye Glenn | 1973 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mendel | Arthur | 1973 | Doctor of Music | |
| Gellhorn | Walter | 1973 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rauscher, Jr. | Frank Joseph | 1973 | Doctor of Science | |
| Schlatter | Richard | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Gibson | Eleanor Jack | 1973 | Doctor of Science | |
| Robeson | Paul | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Murphy | William Beverly | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lewis | Anthony | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Huxtable | Ada Louise | 1974 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Blake | James Hubert | 1974 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Jacobson | Joel Ross | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Byrne | Brendan T. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cox | Archibald | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cunningham | John T. | 1974 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Rodriguez | Joseph H. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rossi | Alice S. | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hedefine | Alfred | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Bloom | Benjamin S. | 1975 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Pauling | Linus | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Stillman | W. Paul | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fergusson | Francis | 1975 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Rodino, Jr. | Peter Wallace | 1975 | Doctor of Laws |
