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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ylvisaker | Paul N. | 1981 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Schlesinger, Jr. | Arthur M. | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Cobb | Jewel Plummer | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Duverger | Maurice | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bundy | McGeorge | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Pearson | Paul G. | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Burnham | Walter Dean | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Kean | Thomas H. | 1982 | Doctor of Laws | |
| McCormick | Richard P. | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Beck | Robert A. | 1983 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Stern | Isaac | 1983 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Lasagna | Louis | 1983 | Doctor of Science | |
| Miller | Samuel Clifford | 1983 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Riley | Matilda White | 1983 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Weisskopf | Victor Frederick | 1983 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Van Ness | Stanley C. | 1983 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Salisbury | Harrison Evans | 1983 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Papp | Joseph | 1984 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Hutchins | John Richard, III | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Kroesen | Frederick James | 1984 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Burke | James E. | 1984 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lerner | Irwin | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Martindell | Anne Clark | 1984 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mrak | Emil M. | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Massey | Walter Eugene | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cowen | David Laurence | 1984 | Doctor of Letters | |
| McClintock | Barbara | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| David, Jr. | Edward E. | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Branscomb | Lewis McAdory | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cherkasky | Martin | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Stamato | Linda L. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Miller | Neal E. | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Peplau | Hildegard E. | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Levin | Janice H. | 1985 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Byrne, Jr. | John Joseph | 1985 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Simon | William E. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Likens | Gene Elden | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Reitman | Norman | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ribicoff | Abraham | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Scott | Hugh | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cohen | Wilbur J. | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Muskie | Edmund Sixtus | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Edelman | Marian Wright | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Boehm | Helen F. | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Smith | Margaret Chase | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Paley | William S. | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Aidekman | Alex | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Roebling | Mary Gindhart | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Williams | Joseph D. | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Rohrer | Heinrick | 1987 | Doctor of Science |
