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This List of University of Maryland, Baltimore County Honorary Degree Recipients includes those persons who have been recognized by UMBC for outstanding achievements in their fields that reflect the ideals and uphold the purposes of the university, and to whom the university faculty has voted to award honorary degrees in recognition of such attainments. Many of the individuals below are also speakers during the university's commencement ceremonies.
The following are recipients of honorary degrees from the
University of Maryland, Baltimore County , beginning in 1970:
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Honorary degree recipients, 1970–1979
Patricia Roberts Harris , the first African American woman to serve on the United States cabinet, was honored with a degree in 1974.
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
Malcolm Charles Moos, Laws
1975
1976
1977
1978
John Barademas, Laws
Halden Keffer Hartline, Science
Ola Belle Reed , Humane Letters
1979
Honorary degree recipients, 1980–1989
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was awarded an honorary degree in 1982 for being the first American woman to co-win a
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1977.
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., Science
Charles McC, Mathias, Jr., Science
1988
1989
Paul Duke , Laws
Frances Morton Froelicher, Public Services
Kou-ting Li, Science
Max Roach , Music
Honorary degree recipients, 1990–1999
In 1991, an honorary degree in science was awarded to the
Nobel prize -winning biochemist,
Arthur Kornberg .
William Donald Schaefer , Governor of Maryland and Mayor of Baltimore, was chosen as a recipient in 1994.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver (on right), philanthropist and children's health and disabilities advocate, received an honorary degree in 1999 along with her husband,
Sargent Shriver . The couple also founded The Shriver Center on the UMBC campus.
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1990
1991
1992
1993
R. Charles Avara, Public Service
Perter Lax, Science
Robert E. Meyerhoff, Humane Letters
Barbara Mikulski , Letters
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
Honorary degree recipients, 2000–2009
Physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur,
Alan Lightman was given a degree in Humanities in 2006.
Judith Rodin received an honorary degree in Human Letters in 2007. Rodin is the first female president of an
Ivy League university, the
University of Pennsylvania , and is also the 12th president of the
Rockefeller Foundation .
2000
Thomas R. Chech, Science
Robert W. Deutsch, Science
Mayo Shattuck III , Public Service
2001
2004
2005
Mary Ann E. Mears, Fine Arts
2006
Soloman H. Snyder, Science
Richard Broadhead, Humane Letters
Alan Lightman , Humanities
2007
2008
2009
Honorary degree recipients, 2010-present
Andrea Mitchell was honored with a Doctor of Public Service at the 2015 Spring Commencement
2010
2011
Rodney C. Adkins, Science
Jeffrey R. Immelt, Public Service
Marie M. Klawe, Public Service
2014
2015
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