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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitlock | Foster Brand | 1980 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Perry | Enos J. | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| Baez | Joan C. | 1980 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Chaikin | Sol C. | 1980 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Charanis | Peter | 1980 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Galbraith | John Kenneth | 1979 | Doctor of Laws | |
| White, Jr. | Lynn | 1979 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Jordan, Jr. | Vernon Eulion | 1979 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Penzias | Arno A. | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Booher | Edward Elsworth | 1979 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Neuberger | Katherine K. | 1979 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Press | Frank | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lipscomb | William Nunn | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Bate | W. Jackson | 1979 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Brown | Lester Russell | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Young, Jr. | Andrew J. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Welty | Eudora | 1978 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Gaskill | William John | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Marshall | Ray | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hirschman | Albert O. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nagle | Claire Waller | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cardoso | Fernando Enrique | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ruttan | Vernon Wesley | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brooks-Randolph | Angie | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Coles | Robert | 1977 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Parsons | Talcott | 1977 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Paul | Alice | 1977 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Morrison | Philip | 1977 | Doctor of Science | |
| Sellars | Richard Beverland | 1977 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Winkler | Henry R. | 1977 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Linowitz | Sol M. | 1977 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Quarles | Benjamin | 1976 | Doctor of 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 | |
| Kenyon | Cecelia M. | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bailyn | Bernard | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Humelsine | Carlisle Hubbard | 1976 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Hedefine | Alfred | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Pauling | Linus | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Bloom | Benjamin S. | 1975 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Stillman | W. Paul | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rodino, Jr. | Peter Wallace | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fergusson | Francis | 1975 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Rossi | Alice S. | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Huxtable | Ada Louise | 1974 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Jacobson | Joel Ross | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Blake | James Hubert | 1974 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Byrne | Brendan T. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws |
