Honorary Degree Recipients
2024
Jason Cone, '99, Commencement Speaker
Madeline Anderson
2023
Jacob E. Bleacher, Ph.D., '00, Commencement Speaker
Carlos Graupera
Kathleen E. Harring, Ph.D., '80
2022
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Commencement Speaker
Nadia Chaudhri, Ph.D., '99, posthumous honoree
Peter Feigin '92
Allison L. O'Toole, Esq., '93
2021
James R. Stengel '77, Commencement Speaker
Sonya Clark
Beverly R. Steinman
2020
Pedro A. Rivera, Commencement Speaker
2019
Rahel Nardos, M.D., '97, Commencement Speaker
Bebe Miller
2018
Corey Booker, Commencement Speaker
Nicole Hurd, Ph.D.
Rachel Levine, M.D.
Charles M. Lieber, Ph.D., '81
2017
Wanda M. Austin, Ph.D., '75, Commencement Speaker
Evelyn N. Farkas, Ph.D., '89
Donald E. Graham
2016
Thomas W. Wolf, Commencement Speaker
Nilaja Sun Gordon '96
Gail Gray
J. Richard Gray
2015
Richard Plepler '81, Commencement Speaker
Robert K. Koomson '97
Sherry Turkle, Ph.D.
2014
George Stephanopoulos, Commencement Speaker
Caswell A. Evans, Jr., D.D.S., M.P.H., '65
Jennifer Whiting, Ph.D., '78
2013
Melanne S. Verveer, Commencement Speaker
Stanley J. Dudrick, M.D., '57
Jane Moss '74
2012
Michael R. Bloomberg, Commencement Speaker
Wanda M. Austin, Ph.D., '75
Jaron Lanier
Lynn Nottage
2011
Honorable Richard G. Lugar, Commencement Speaker
Akinwumi Adesina, Ph.D.
Eugene Braunwald, M.D.
Ariel Dorfman
Donald K. Hess '52
2010
Judy Woodruff, Commencement Speaker
Ann Boyd Barshinger H'17
Dale F. Frey '54
Mary Patterson McPherson, Ph.D.
2009
Colin L. Powell, Commencement Speaker
Deborah Bial
Myles Brand, Ph.D.
Thomas G. Phillips, III, '54
Richard D. Winters '41
2008
David Greene, Commencement Speaker
Ellen Arnold Groff
Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon
Christo Javacheff
Robert Zemsky, Ph.D.
2007
Wolf Blitzer, Commencement Speaker
Donna Eileen Glover '76
Laurie Olin
Robert Pfannebecker, Esq., '55
2006
Judith Rodin, Commencement Speaker
Rufus A. Fulton, Jr., '66
Carole Haas Gravagno
Bruce Pipes, Ph.D.
Joseph Neubauer
Floyd S. Skloot '69
2005
David T. Ellwood, Commencement Speaker
Doreen E. Boyce, Ph.D.
Louis A. Butcher, Jr., '65
D. Holmes Morton, M.D.
2004
Richard N. Haass, Commencement Speaker
Suheil Bushrui
Sally M. Gibson
John H. Glick, M.D.
Edmund S. Morgan
Marilyn Ware
2003
Edward G. Rendell, Commencement Speaker
Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., Ph.D.
Freeman A. Hrabowski III, Ph.D.
Caroline S. Nunan
Michael B. Wood, M.D., '65
2002
Leslie Lenkowsky, Ph.D., '68, Commencement Speaker
H. Art Taylor, Esq., '80, Commencement Speaker
John M. Buchanan '59
L. James Huegel, Esq., '38
Richard Kneedler, Ph.D., '65
Aaron J. Martin, Ph.D., '50
William G. Simeral, Ph.D., '48
2001
Paul L. Leventhal '59, Commencement Speaker
Glen Tetley '46
Judith M. White, Ph.D., '73
2000
William H. Cosby, Jr.*, Commencement Speaker
* Degree was rescinded
1999
Alan I. Leshner, Ph.D., '65, Commencement Speaker
David L. Warren, Commencement Speaker
1998
Charles Osgood, Commencement Speaker
1997
Charles E. Glassick, Ph.D., '53, Commencement Speaker
1996
George J. Harad '65, Commencement Speaker
1995
Mary L. Schapiro, Esq., '77, Commencement Speaker
Mary Atlee
1994
James E. Lapine '71, Commencement Speaker
Jose Greco
1993
Oscar Arias Sanchez, Commencement Speaker
1992
Harry Andrew Blackmun, Commencement Speaker
Carl O. Bostrom, Ph.D., '56
Jane Dempsey Douglas
1991
Jane Bryant Quinn, Commencement Speaker
William W. Adams
Robert M. Landis, Esq., '41
Deborah T. Haimo, Ph.D.
Claude A. Villee, Jr., Ph.D., '37
Maxine F. Singer, Ph.D.
1990
Joseph Klein, Commencement Speaker
Niara Sudarkasa, Ph.D.
Howard T. Miller '47
Geraldine R. Segal Ph.D.
1989
Kenneth M. Duberstein '65, Commencement Speaker
Helen A. Thomas
1988
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Commencement Speaker
Richard Thornburgh
1987
A. Bartlett Giamatti, Commencement Speaker
Robert MacNeil, Commencement Speaker
Arthur Morris
Tetsuo Seino, Ph.D.
Peter Schmiechen
Henry P. Stager '32
James Lehrer
Shozo Kodama
1986
William H. Gray III, LL.D., '63, Commencement Speaker