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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gould | Stephen Jay | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Aidekman | Alex | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Roebling | Mary Gindhart | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Shapiro | Harold T. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Werblin | David A. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lerner | Gerda | 1988 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Norton | Eleanor Holmes | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Raven | Peter Hamilton | 1988 | Doctor of Science | |
| Watson | James Dewey | 1988 | Doctor of Science | |
| McPhee | John Angus | 1988 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Woodward | C. Vann | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Commager | Henry Steele | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yasuhiro | Nakasone | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lawrence | Jacob | 1988 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Allen | Robert E. | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Heningburg | Gustave | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Proctor | Samuel DeWitt | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Whitehead | John C. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Baker | Russell Wayne | 1989 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Cavazos | Lauro F. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dickerson | Donald MacMillan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wilson | Blenda Jacqueline | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dresselhaus | Mildred S. | 1989 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gregorian | Vartan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Caldicott | Helen | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Bragg | Floyd Herman | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Voorhees | Ralph W. | 1990 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Florio | James J. | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lichtenstein | Roy | 1990 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Franklin | John Hope | 1990 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Lorenz | Edward Norton | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Geltman | Samuel | 1990 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Anderson | Adrienne Scotchbrook | 1991 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bongiovanni | Michael | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Anderson | Philip Warren | 1991 | Doctor of Science | |
| Vagelos | P. Roy | 1991 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Carter | Bennett Lester | 1991 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Ginsburg | Ruth Bader | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wideman | John Edgar | 1991 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Larsen | Ralph S. | 1991 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Shepard | Roger Newland | 1992 | Doctor of Science | |
| Mario | Ernest | 1992 | Doctor of Science | |
| Atiyah | Sir Michael | 1992 | Doctor of Science | |
| Child | Julia | 1992 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Wolfe | Deborah Cannon Patridge | 1992 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Suzman | The Honorable Helen | 1992 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jordan | Barbara | 1993 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hines | Jerome | 1993 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Levin | Wayne M. | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Mayo | John S. | 1993 | Doctor of Science |
