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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bailyn | Bernard | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Humelsine | Carlisle Hubbard | 1976 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Frelinghuysen | Peter H.B. | 1976 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jensen | Merril | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Morgan | Edmund Sears | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Morris | Richard Brandon | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Quarles | Benjamin | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Kenyon | Cecelia M. | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Parsons | Talcott | 1977 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Linowitz | Sol M. | 1977 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Paul | Alice | 1977 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Sellars | Richard Beverland | 1977 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Coles | Robert | 1977 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Winkler | Henry R. | 1977 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Morrison | Philip | 1977 | Doctor of Science | |
| Welty | Eudora | 1978 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Brooks-Randolph | Angie | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brown | Lester Russell | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nagle | Claire Waller | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gaskill | William John | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ruttan | Vernon Wesley | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Marshall | Ray | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hirschman | Albert O. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cardoso | Fernando Enrique | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Young, Jr. | Andrew J. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lipscomb | William Nunn | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Bate | W. Jackson | 1979 | Doctor of Letters | |
| White, Jr. | Lynn | 1979 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Penzias | Arno A. | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Galbraith | John Kenneth | 1979 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Neuberger | Katherine K. | 1979 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Press | Frank | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Jordan, Jr. | Vernon Eulion | 1979 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Booher | Edward Elsworth | 1979 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Parks | Gordon Alexander | 1980 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Schuller | Gunther | 1980 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Chaikin | Sol C. | 1980 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Charanis | Peter | 1980 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Whitlock | Foster Brand | 1980 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Perry | Enos J. | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| Edgar | Miriam Colón | 1980 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Wretlind | Arvid | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| Yalow | Rosalyn S. | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| Baez | Joan C. | 1980 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Hufstedler | Shirley M. | 1981 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lautenberg | Frank R. | 1981 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lederberg | Joshua | 1981 | Doctor of Science | |
| Marchand | Leslie Alexis | 1981 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Burns | Eveline M. | 1981 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Sakharov | Andrei Dmitrievich | 1981 | Doctor of Science |
