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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott | Hugh | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ribicoff | Abraham | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Peplau | Hildegard E. | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Miller | Neal E. | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Byrne, Jr. | John Joseph | 1985 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Simon | William E. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Levin | Janice H. | 1985 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Cherkasky | Martin | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Likens | Gene Elden | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Stamato | Linda L. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Burke | James E. | 1984 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Kroesen | Frederick James | 1984 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Hutchins | John Richard, III | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lerner | Irwin | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Cowen | David Laurence | 1984 | Doctor of Letters | |
| David, Jr. | Edward E. | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Mrak | Emil M. | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Martindell | Anne Clark | 1984 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Branscomb | Lewis McAdory | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Massey | Walter Eugene | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Papp | Joseph | 1984 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| McClintock | Barbara | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lasagna | Louis | 1983 | Doctor of Science | |
| Weisskopf | Victor Frederick | 1983 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Miller | Samuel Clifford | 1983 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Salisbury | Harrison Evans | 1983 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Van Ness | Stanley C. | 1983 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Beck | Robert A. | 1983 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Stern | Isaac | 1983 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Riley | Matilda White | 1983 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Pearson | Paul G. | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Burnham | Walter Dean | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Kean | Thomas H. | 1982 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Schlesinger, Jr. | Arthur M. | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| McCormick | Richard P. | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Cobb | Jewel Plummer | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bundy | McGeorge | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Duverger | Maurice | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Lautenberg | Frank R. | 1981 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Burns | Eveline M. | 1981 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Lederberg | Joshua | 1981 | Doctor of Science | |
| Marchand | Leslie Alexis | 1981 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Ylvisaker | Paul N. | 1981 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Sakharov | Andrei Dmitrievich | 1981 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hufstedler | Shirley M. | 1981 | Doctor of Laws | |
| 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 |
