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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lewis | William Arthur | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Epstein | Benjamin | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Knowles | Francis | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fair | Gordon Maskew | 1965 | Doctor of Science | |
| Nicolson | Marjorie Hope | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Brown | Harrison Scott | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Smith | Frederic William | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Randolph | Asa Philip | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smithers | Robert Brinkley | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bryan | James Edmund | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Betancourt | Romulo | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reese | Everett David | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Katzenbach | Nicholas deBelleville | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Blackman | Samuel Garrison | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Conn | Jerome W. | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Connor | John Thomas | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cowdrey | Mary Bartlett | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| McFarland | Ross Armstrong | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Tatum | Edward Lawrie | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Shahn | Ben | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Miers | Earl Schenck | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Rubinstein | Arthur | 1963 | Doctor of Music | |
| Baron | Salo Wittmayer | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hellman | Lillian | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bender | Carl Beitel | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Martin | George Willard | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Morrow | John Howard | 1963 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Wu | Chien-Shiung | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wayne | Edward Anthony | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Block | Herbert Lawrence | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Weaver | Robert Clifton | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Engstrom | Elmer W. | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Perkins | James A. | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wescott | Glenway | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| White | Ruth Patricia | 1962 | Master of Fine Arts | |
| Neuberger | Maurine Brown | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Clapp | Margaret | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dougherty | John Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stevenson | Adlai Ewing | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kessler | Henry Howard | 1962 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Weeks | Edward A. | 1962 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Myers | Chauncie Kilmer | 1962 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Hughes | Richard Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sessions | Roger | 1962 | Doctor of Music | |
| Auchter | George David | 1962 | Doctor of Science | |
| Kriendler | Irving Robert | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Rukeyser | Muriel | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Heidelberger | Michael | 1961 | Doctor of Science | |
| Dillon | Clarence Douglas | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sang | Philip David | 1961 | Doctor of Letters |