|
Year
|
Degree
|
Name
|
|
5/4/2024
|
Doctor of Music
|
Ramona Collins
|
Jazz Legend, Toledo Region
|
|
5/4/2024
|
Doctor of Pedagogy
|
Romules Durant
|
Chief Executive Officer and Superintendent, Toledo Public Schools
|
|
5/4/2024
|
Doctor of Public Service
|
Randy Gardner
|
Former Chancellor, Ohio Department of Higher Education
|
|
12/16/2023
|
Dr. of Commercial Science
|
Patrick E. Bowe
|
President and Chief Executive Officer of The Andersons, Inc.
|
|
5/4/2019
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Katie Holmes
|
Actor, Producer and Director
|
|
12/15/2018
|
Dr. of Science
|
Michael Witherell
|
Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
|
|
11/8/2018
|
Dr. of Public Service
|
Calvin Lawshe
|
Posthumous Honorary Degree
|
|
5/5/2018
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Charles "Chuck" Ealey
|
Founder of the Chuck
Ealey Foundation, Pro football player inducted into the Mid-American Conference
Hall of Fame, 1988, Recipient of UT Alumni Association "Blue T
Award," 2007
|
|
12/17/2017
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Michael D. Sallah
|
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor, Reporter, national investigations team,
USA TODAY, Gannett Network, Washington, D.C.
|
|
5/7/2017
|
former honorary degree recipient
|
Christine Brennan
|
Sports columnist, USA Today
|
|
12/17/2016
|
Dr. of Science
|
Dr. Timothy Law Synder
|
President, Loyola Marymount University
|
|
5/7/2016
|
Dr. of Public Service
|
Rush D. Holt
|
CEO, American Association
of the Arts
|
|
5/7/2016
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole
|
Director, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
|
|
12/19/2015
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Ms. Christi Paul
|
CNN Reporter
|
|
5/10/2015
|
Dr. of Business Administration
|
Mr. Roy Ames
|
CEO, President and
Chairman of CooperTire
and Rubber Company
|
|
5/10/2015
|
Dr. of Public Administration
|
Mr. Keith Faber
|
Represents the 12th State Senate District
|
|
12/20/2014
|
Dr. of Business Administration
|
Michael H. Thaman
|
Chairman of the Board and
CEO-Owens Corning
|
|
5/3/2014
|
Dr. of Public Administration
|
Deborah L. Wince-Smith
|
President & CEO of the
Council on Competitiveness
|
|
12/15/2013
|
Dr. of Business Administration
|
Michael G. Morris
|
Chairman of the Board,
American Electric Power
|
|
5/5/2013
|
Dr. of Engineering
|
Dr. Jeffrey Wadsworth
|
President & CEO,
Battelle Memorial Institute
|
|
5/5/2013
|
Dr. of Commercial Science
|
Robert C. Savage
|
CEO, Savage & Associates
|
|
5/5/2013
|
Dr. of Business Administration
|
Sandra Pianalto
|
President and CEO- Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
|
|
12/15/2012
|
Dr. of Public Service
|
Dr. Anwar Mohammed Gargash
|
Member- Federal Cabinet
of the United Arab Emirates
|
|
5/5/2012
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Lee Fisher
|
President and CEO of CEO's for Cities; former Ohio Lt. Gov. and Attorney
|
|
5/5/2012
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Dr. Maurice Manning
|
Chancellor, National Univ. of Ireland; Pres., Irish Human Rights Commission
|
|
5/8/2011
|
Dr. of Business Administration
|
Sergio Marchionne
|
CEO, Chrysler Group LLC
and CEO, Fiat S.p.A
|
|
12/18/2010
|
Dr. of Science
|
James Stanley, M.D
|
Handleman Prof. of Surgery, University of Michigan
|
|
7/22/2010
|
Dr. of Science
|
Dr. Sultan Ahmed AlJaber
|
CEO, Masdar Abu Dhabi
Future Energy Co.
|
|
5/8/2010
|
Dr. of Business Administration
|
G. Rangaswamy
|
Administration PSG and Sons Charities Trust in Coimbatore, India
|
|
5/8/2010
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Catherine Snow, Ph.D
|
Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor
of Education, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
|
|
5/8/2010
|
Dr. of Science
|
Eugene Kranz
|
Former Nasa Director of Mission Operations; Famed Flight Director
of Apollo
|
|
5/10/2009
|
Dr. of Science
|
David Eaglesham
|
Vice-President of Technology, Chief Technology Officer, First Solar, Inc.
|
|
5/10/2009
|
Dr. of Letters
|
Sam Abell
|
Photographer, National Geographic Society
|
|
5/3/2008
|
Dr. of Music
|
Louis "Chip" Davis
|
Creator of Manhattan Steamroller
musical group; Founder/President
of American Gramaphone
Recording Co.
|
|
5/3/2008
|
Dr. of Science
|
Dr. Nancy Cantor
|
Chancellor and President,
Syracuse University
|
|
5/6/2007
|
Dr. of Science
|
Dr. Mary Sue Coleman
|
President, University of Michigan
|
|
5/6/2007
|
Dr. of Music
|
Robert Bell
|
President and CEO of Toledo Symphony, celebrated 50 years
with symphony
|
|
12/16/2006
|
Dr. of Science
|
Glenn Geelhoed, M.D., Ph.D
|
Surgeon and Medical Missionary,
3rd World Countries
|
|
5/6/2006
|
Dr. of Business Administration
|
James A. Poure
|
Community Service
|
|
5/6/2006
|
Dr. of Education
|
Edrene Benson Cole
|
Toledo Public Schools Administrator
and Historian
|
|
5/8/2004
|
Dr. Public Service
|
Judith Heumann
|
Disability Advocate
|
|
5/8/2004
|
Honorary Juris Dr.
|
Ted Turner
|
Media (Turner Broadcast Serv),
Law School speaker
|
|
5/10/2003
|
Dr. of Science
|
Nina McClelland
|
Chairman of the American Chemical Society, '51 UT grad.
|
|
5/10/2003
|
Dr. of Science
|
Helen L. Brooks
|
UT alumnus, transformed UT astronomy Dept. into one of top depts. in nation; Brooks
Observatory named in her
and her husband's honor
|
|
12/21/2002
|
Dr. of Business Administration
|
James Findlay
|
Founder, CEO, Impact Products
|
|
5/11/2002
|
Dr. of Business Administration
|
Mark Victor Hansen
|
Co-Author, Chicken Soup
for the Soul, series
|
|
3/4/2002
|
Hon. Juris Doctorate
|
John J. Sweeney
|
President, AFL-CIO
|
|
12/16/2000
|
Dr. of Public Administration
|
James Petro
|
Auditor, State of Ohio
|
|
5/2000
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Betty Montgomery
|
Attorney General of Ohio
|
|
5/2000
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Yvonne Jennifer Mokgoro
|
Justice, Constitutional Court
of South Africa
|
|
5/2000
|
Dr. of Public Service
|
Tebogo Job Mokgoro
|
Director-General, South African Institute of Management Development
|
|
5/8/1999
|
Dr. of Science
|
Herbert A. Hauptman, Ph.D.
|
Nobel Prize recipient in Chemistry
|
|
5/8/1999
|
Dr. of Performing Arts
|
Mr. Jon Carl Hendricks
|
Jazz vocalist, composer and lyricist
|
|
5/8/1999
|
Dr. of Commercial Science
|
Mr. Richard P. Anderson
|
Chairman and CEO, The Andersons
|
|
5/9/1998
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Mr. Baldemar Velasquez
|
Organizer, Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), AFL-CIO
|
|
5/9/1998
|
Dr. of Commercial Science
|
Mr. Charles Sullivan
|
CEO, Interstate Bakeries. Major Donor, Sullivan Hall
|
|
5/9/1998
|
Dr. of Commercial Science
|
Mr. Robert Eaton
|
President & CEO, Chrysler Corporation
|
|
6/14/1997
|
Dr. of Science
|
Dr. Julius Jacobson, M.D
|
Distinguished Service Professor of Surgery, Mt. Sinai Hospital, NYC
|
|
6/15/1996
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Dr. Franklin Smith
|
Supt., Washington DC Public Schools
|
|
6/15/1996
|
Dr. of Commercial Science
|
John Brown Neff
|
Wellington Management Co.
|
|
12/9/1995
|
Dr. of Commercial Science
|
Ivan W. Gorr
|
Former CEO,
Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.
|
|
12/9/1995
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Elaine L. Chao
|
President & CEO, United Way of America
|
|
6/17/1995
|
Dr. of Science
|
Dr. William M. Heller
|
Ex. Dir., US Pharmacopeial Convention
|
|
12/17/1994
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Dr. Harlan Cleveand
|
Dir, Hubert Humphrey Institute
|
|
12/17/1994
|
Dr. of Public Administration
|
Crystal Ellis
|
Supt. Toledo Public Schools
|
|
6/11/1994
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Dr. Philip Burgess
|
President, Center for the New West
|
|
12/11/1993
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Marcy Kaptur
|
US House of Representatives
|
|
6/12/1993
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Gloria Steinem
|
Feminist, Toledo native
|
|
6/13/1992
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Clarence Page
|
Pulitzer Prize Columnist
|
|
12/14/1991
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Harris Wofford
|
US Senator
|
|
6/15/1991
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Terry Sanford
|
US Senator
|
|
6/16/1990
|
Dr. of Science
|
Dr. Aklilu Lemma
|
Head of UNICEF
|
|
6/17/1989
|
Dr. of Science
|
Dr. Junichi Nagasaki
|
Chairman of the Board, Nippon Electric Glass
|
|
3/19/1988
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Beverly White Miller
|
President, Western New England College
|
|
10/9/1987
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Helen McMaster
|
|
|
10/9/1987
(Dedication of McMaster Hall)
|
Dr. of Science
|
Harold McMaster
|
|
|
6/13/1987
|
Dr. of Humanities
|
Mrs. Doreen Canaday Spitzer
|
|
|
6/13/1987
|
Dr. of Science
|
M. K.R. Narayanan
|
Minister of Science & Technology, India
|
|
6/14/1986
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Mark 0. Hatfield
|
US Senator
|
|
10/16/1985
|
Dr. of Sciences
|
Dr. John B. Slaughter
|
Chancellor, Univ. of Maryland
|
|
10/16/1985
(Inauguration of President McComas)
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Richard F. Celeste
|
Governor, State of Ohio
|
|
6/15/1985
|
Dr. of Commercial Science
|
John F. Savage
|
Savage & Associates
|
|
5/22/85
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Dr. Glen R. Driscoll
|
President Emeritus, UT
|
|
5/22/1985
|
Dr. of Public Administration
|
William Coulter
|
Chancellor, OBOR
|
|
3/23/1985
|
Dr. of Public Administration
|
Dr. Jesse Long
|
Retired Asst. to the President, UT
|
|
5/16/1984
|
Dr. of Science
|
Dr. Gerhard Herzberg
|
1971 Nobel Prize, Chemistry
|
|
4/13/1984
|
Dr. of Science
|
Dr. Howard A. Schneiderman
|
Sr. VP Research and Development, Monsanto
|
|
2/16/1984
|
Bachelor of Commercial Science
|
Robert W. Baum
|
Retired accountant, OI
|
|
6/11/1983
|
Dr. of Humanities
|
Dr. Lyun Joon Kim
|
President, Hanyang University, Korea
|
|
6/11/1983
|
Dr. of Fine Arts
|
Roger Mandie
|
Director, Toledo Museum of Art
|
|
6/11/1983
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Stephen Stranahan
|
Former board chairman, UT
|
|
5/18/1983
|
Dr. of Performing Arts
|
Jamie Farr
|
Entertainer; M*A*S*H
|
|
5/26/1982
|
Dr. of Science
|
Michael E. DeBakey, M.D.
|
Heart surgeon
|
|
5/1981
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh
|
President, Notre Dame
|
|
4/9/1981
|
Dr. of Science
|
Nelson D: Goldberg, Ph.D.
|
|
|
6/16/1979
|
Dr. of Fine Arts
|
Dominick Labino
|
World-renowned glass artist
from Toledo
|
|
6/16/1979
|
Dr. of Civil Law
|
Wade H. McCree
|
Solicitor General
|
|
6/16/1979
|
Dr. of Commercial Science
|
Rene C. McPherson
|
Chairman, Dana Corporation
|
|
6/17/1978
|
Dr. of Laws
|
James R. Schlesinger
|
US Secretary of Energy
|
|
6/17/1978
|
Dr. of Science
|
Gilbert H. Siegel
|
VP for Professional Relations,
Lane Drug Co.
|
|
6/10/1977
|
Dr. of Humanities
|
Dr. James Thorpe
|
Dir. Of Huntington Library & Art Gallery, California
|
|
6/10/1977
|
Dr. of Science
|
Raymond C. Reese
|
World authority on reinforced concrete design
|
|
6/10/1977
|
Dr. of Humanities
|
Dr. John Hope Franklin
|
Distinguished Professor,
University of Chicago
|
|
6/11/1976
|
Dr. of Public Service
|
Philip C. Skeldon
|
Director, Toledo Zoo
|
|
6/11/1976
|
Dr. of Commercial Science
|
Henry L. Morse
|
Chairman, MCO
|
|
6/11/1976
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Sara Dunlap Jackson
|
National Archives
|
|
6/13/1975
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Janina M. Adamczak
|
Prof. Emeritus, Sociology
|
|
3/21/1975
|
Dr. of Engineering
|
Bruce T. Lundin
|
Dir. Lewis Research Center, NASA
|
|
12/13/1974
|
Dr. of Commercial Science
|
John D. Anderson
|
The Andersons
|
|
12/13/1974
|
Dr. of Fine Arts
|
Serge Fournier
|
Conductor, Toledo Symphony
|
|
6/14/1974
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Ella P. Stewart
|
National and Toledo
civic leader
|
|
6/14/1974
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Randolph C. Downes
|
UT Prof. Emeritus, History
|
|
6/15/1973
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
John G. Gilligan
|
Governor, State of Ohio
|
|
4/26/1973
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Leonard Woodcock
|
President of UAW
|
|
3/23/1973
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Edward C. Ames
|
Former President of
both Toledo and
State Board of Education
|
|
2/25/1973
|
Dr. of Science
|
Delos M. Palmer
|
Former Dean, UT
College of Engineering
|
|
2/25/1973
(Centennial Convocation
of the College of Engineering)
|
Dr. of Science
|
John J. McKetta
|
Professor of Engineering,
University of Texas
|
|
1/31/1973
|
Dr. of Commercial Science
|
Richard C. Gerstenberg
|
Chairman, General Motors
|
|
10/12/1972
(Centennial Convocation and Inauguration of Dr. Driscoll)
|
Dr. of Arts & Letters
|
William S. Carlson
|
President Emeritus, UT
|
|
6/13/1972
|
Dr. of Laws
|
J. Preston Levis
|
Former chairman, UT Board; Chairman, Owens-Illinois
|
|
6/13/1972
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Geoffrey R. Bennett
|
Retired Toledo Scale Executive
|
|
6/13/1972
|
Dr. of Laws
|
John D. Willey
|
President, The Blade
|
|
12/10/1971
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Waldemar Argow
|
Minister, First
Unitarian Church
|
|
12/10/1971
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Dan H. McCullough
|
Toledo attorney
|
|
8/25/1970
|
Master of Journalism
|
Paul A. Schrader
|
The Blade, journalist
|
|
6/12/1970
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Ray Allen Billington
|
Sr. Research Assoc., Huntington Library, San. Marino, CA
|
|
6/12/1970
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Edwin D. Dodd
|
President, Owens-Illinois
|
|
6/12/1970
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Willard I. Webb, Jr.
|
Chairman, Ohio
Citizens Bank
|
|
4/24/70
(Dedication
of Scott Park Campus)
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Howard I. Collier
|
Director of Finance,
State of Ohio
|
|
3/20/1970
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Wilhelm Eitel
|
Professor Emeritus, UT
|
|
3/20/1970
|
Dr. of Laws
|
John Goerlich
|
Toledo industrialist
|
|
6/13/1969
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Isabelle K. Walters
|
Director, Florence
Crittenton Home
|
|
6/13/1969
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Elizabeth A. Zepf
|
Former member, UT Board
|
|
6/13/1969
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Lauris Norstad
|
Chairman, Owens
Corning Fiberglass
|
|
12/20/1968
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
William Travers Jerome, Ill
|
President, BGSU
|
|
12/20/1968
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Glidden L. Brooks
|
President, MCO
|
|
6/5/1968
|
Dr. of Laws
|
John E. Martin
|
Chairman, Dana Corporation
|
|
6/5/1968
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Raymond H. Mulford
|
Chairman, Owens-Illinois
|
|
4/25/1968
(Dedication of Bowman-Oddy Laboratories)
|
Dr. of Science
|
Wendell M. Stanley
|
Director of Virus Lab,
University of California-Berkeley
|
|
1/24/1968
|
Dr. of Laws
|
W.W. Knight
|
Toledo, OH
|
|
1/24/1968
|
Dr. of Commercial Science
|
Jules D. Lippman
|
Toledo, OH
|
|
10/13/1967
|
Dr. of Science
|
W.A. Hiltner
|
Yerkes Observatory
|
|
10/13/1967
(Dedication
of the Planetarium)
|
Dr. of Science
|
James E. Webb
|
National Aeronautics & Space Administration
|
|
1/26/1967
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Lawrence N. Steinberg
|
President, Teamsters
Local, Toledo
|
|
1/26/1967
|
Dr. of Laws
|
James A. Rhodes
|
Governor, State of Ohio
|
|
3/10/1966
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Ralph J. Bunche
|
Under Secretary, United Nations
|
|
6/9/1966
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Harold W. Oyster
|
VP for Development,
University of Akron
|
|
6/9/1966
|
Dr. of Laws
|
John D. Millett
|
Chancellor, OBOR
|
|
6/9/1966
|
Dr. of Laws
|
John Marshall Briley
|
Owens Corning Fiberglass, Toledo,OH
|
|
1/26/1966
|
Dr. of Science
|
James W. Hackett
|
Owens Illinois, Toledo, OH
|
|
6/10/1965
|
Dr. of Humanities
|
Virginia S. Stranahan
|
Toledo, OH
|
|
6/4/1964
|
Dr.of Laws
|
Foy David Kohler
|
Ambassador to the USSR
|
|
6/4/1964
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Harry R. Winkle
|
Vice Chairman, Owens Corning Fiberglass,
Toledo, OH
|
|
4/22/1964
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Philo C. Dunsmore
|
Toledo Supt. of Schools
|
|
4/18/1964
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Amos L. Conn
|
Toledo, OH
|
|
1964
|
Dr. of Commercial Science
|
Charles E. Beard
|
President, Braniff Airways
|
|
1963
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Lyman Spitzer, Jr.
|
Princeton Observatory
|
|
1963
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Thomas S. Gates
|
New York City
|
|
1962
|
Dr. of Performing Arts
|
Danny Thomas
|
Hollywood, CA
|
|
1962
|
Dr. of Laws
|
George W. Ritter
|
Toledo, OH
|
|
1962
|
Dr. of Laws
|
C. Ernst Giesecke
|
N.C. Assoc. Consultant
|
|
1962
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Lev Flournoy Sr.
|
Toledo, OH
|
|
1962
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Harry E. Collin
|
Toledo, OH
|
|
1961
|
Dr. of Science
|
T. Keith Glennan
|
President, Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, OH
|
|
1961
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Michael J. Kirwan
|
US House of Representatives,
Youngstown, OH
|
|
1961
|
Dr. of Fine Arts
|
Molly Ohl Godwin
|
Art Educator, Sylvania, OH
|
|
10/7/1960
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Walter A. Eversman
|
Former Chairman, UT Board of Trustees (awarded posthumously)
|
|
10/7/1960
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Asa Smallridge Knowles
|
President, Northeastern University;
Former UT President
|
|
10/7/1960
|
Dr. of Engineering
|
Edwin D. Harrison
|
President, Georgia
Institute of Technology
|
|
10/7/1960
|
Dr. of Engineering
|
Roy Alfred Nyquist
|
Dir. of Engineering,
Libbey-Owens- Ford
|
|
10/7/1960
|
Dr. of Engineering
|
John Christian Warner
|
President, Carnegie
Institute of Technology
|
|
10/7/1960
(Dedication of Engineering
Science Bldg)
|
Dr. of Science
|
Detley W. Bronk
|
President,
Rockefeller Institute
|
|
6/6/1960
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Michael V. DiSalle
|
Governor, State of Ohio
|
|
6/6/1960
|
Dr. of Science
|
Sister Mary John, R.S.M.
|
Dir. Of Pharmacy Service,
Mercy Hospital, Toledo
|
|
6/6/1960
|
Dr. of Science
|
Donald: G. Sullivan
|
|
|
6/14/1958
|
Dr. of Laws
|
George Pope MacNichol, Jr.
|
President,
Libbey-Owens-Ford
|
|
6/14/1958
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Harold Boescbenstein
|
President,
Owens-Corning Fiberglass
|
|
6/14/1958
|
Dr. of Science
|
Walker L. Cisler
|
President, Detroit Edison Co.
|
|
6/14/1958
|
Dr. of Commercial Science
|
Frank J. Korgler
|
Gen. Mgr., Doehler Jarvis
|
|
6/8/1957
|
Dr. of Civil Law
|
Jan Herman van Roijen
|
Ambassador, Netherlands
|
|
6/8/1957
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Charles F. Dowd
|
Toledo, OH
|
|
6/8/57
|
Dr. of Science
|
Eugene N. Beesley
|
President, Eli Lilly & Co.
|
|
6/8/1957
|
Dr. of Science
|
Lewis L. Strauss
|
Admiral, Atomic Energy Commission
|
|
6/6/1956
|
Dr. of Engineering
|
Charles Edward Ide
|
Toledo Edison Company
|
|
6/6/1956
|
Dr. of Civil Law
|
William Orville Douglas
|
US Supreme Count
|
|
6/9/1956
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Charles Anderson Dana
|
New York City
|
|
6/10/1955
|
Dr. of Science
|
John Schoff Millis
|
President, Western
Reserve University
|
|
6/10/1955
|
Dr. of Laws
|
William Edward Levis
|
Owens-Illinois Glass Co.
|
|
6/11/1954
|
Master of Arts
|
William A. Smith
|
Pineville, PA
|
|
6/11/1954
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Arthur T. Vanderbilt
|
Supreme Court of NJ
|
|
5/15/1954
|
Dr. of Science
|
Robert B. Sosman
|
Rutgers University
|
|
5/15/1954
|
Dr. of Science
|
Frederick H. Norton
|
Cambridge, MA
|
|
2/12/1954
|
Dr. of Civil Law
|
Edward James McCormick
|
Toledo, OH
|
|
10/2/1953
|
Dr. of Jurisprudence
|
Harold H. Burton
|
US Supreme Court
|
|
10/2/1953
(Dedication of
Library)
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Robert B. Downs
|
|
|
6/9/1953
|
Dr. of Commercial Science
|
John Calhoun Baker
|
President, Ohio University
|
|
5/1953
(The Armory
dedicated
May of 1953)
|
Dr. of Civil Laws
|
General Hugh M. Milton, II
|
Asst. Secretary of the Army
|
|
6/12/1952
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Robert A. Stranahan
|
Toledo, OH
|
|
6/12/1952
|
Dr. of Civil Law
|
Most. Rev. George J. Rehring
|
Toledo, OH
|
|
6/12/1952
|
Master of Education
|
Lucille E. Mack
|
Secretary to UT
Presidents from
11/6/13 - 6/30/52
|
|
6/12/1952
|
Dr. of Letters
|
Harlan H. Hatcher
|
President, Univ. of Michigan
|
|
6/12/1952
|
Dr. of Fine Arts
|
Blake-More Godwin
|
Toledo Museum of Art
|
|
6/12/1952
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Walter F. Brown
|
Toledo, OH
|
|
6/14/1951
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Frank L. Kloeb
|
Toledo, OH
|
|
5/9/1951
|
Dr. of Civil Law
|
Robert I. Gannon, S.J.
|
New York City
|
|
5/9/1951
(Inauguration
of President Knowles)
|
Dr. of Literature
|
Benjamin Fine
|
New York Times
|
|
6/15/1950
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Earl J. McGrath
|
Columbia University
|
|
6/13/1949
|
Dr. of Laws
|
George Dinsmore Stoddard
|
Dean, School of Education, NY University
|
|
6/12/1948
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Thomas Vernor Smith
|
School of Citizenship, Syracuse University
|
|
6/7/1947
|
Master of Social Science
|
Jane M. Cartwright
|
Luella Cummings Home, Toledo, OH
|
|
6/8/1946
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Manley Ottmer Hudson
|
Harvard Law School
|
|
2/4/1946
|
Dr. of Laws
|
David Dodds Henry
|
President, Univ. of Illinois
|
|
12/1945
|
Master of Arts
|
Joe E. Brown
|
Los Angeles, CA
|
|
6/2/1945
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Ward Murphey Canaday
|
Toledo, OH
|
|
1/1945
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Leverett Saltonstall
|
Dover, MA
|
|
6/3/1944
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Stephen Keith Mahon
|
New York, NY
|
|
6/9/1942
|
Masters of Science
|
Emma Elizabeth Roberts
|
Toledo District Nurse Assn.
|
|
6/9/1942
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Hu Shih
|
Chinese Embassy, Washington DC
|
|
6/16/1941
|
Dr. of Laws
|
John David Biggers
|
Toledo, OH
|
|
6/10/1940
|
Dr. of Laws
|
William Elgin Wickenden
|
President, Case School
of Applied Science, Cleveland, OH
|
|
6/12/1939
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Grove Patterson
|
Toledo, OH
|
|
6/13/1938
|
Dr. of Science
|
Harry Bertine Meller
|
Pittsburgh, PA
|
|
6/1419/37
|
Dr. of Laws
|
William Windus Knight
|
Perrysburg, OH
|
|
6/14/1937
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Hazzelton Erastus Simmons
|
President,
University of Akron
|
|
6/9/1936
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Raymond Walters
|
President Emeritus,
University of Cincinnati
|
|
6/9/1936
|
Dr. of Science
|
Halvor O. Hem
|
Toledo, OH
|
|
6/9/1936
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Elizabeth Lamson Chamberlin
|
Toledo, OH
|
|
6/11/1935
|
Dr. of Laws
|
George Philip Hahn
|
Toledo, OH
|
|
6/11/1935
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Florence Ellinwood Allen
|
Cleveland, OH
|
|
6/11/1935
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Charles Phelps Taft
|
Cincinnati, OH
|
|
6/13/1934
|
Dr. of Science
|
Charles Franklin Kettering
|
Dayton, OH
|
|
6/8/1922
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Cornell Schreiber
|
Former Toledo Mayor
|
|
1918
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Charles Scott Rowley
|
Des Moines, IA
|
|
6/14/1917
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Solon T. Klotz
|
UT Law Faculty
|
|
6/14/1917
|
Dr. of Laws
|
Robert Gates Gosline
|
Toledo City Court Judge,
UT Law Faculty
|
|
Health Science Campus/College of Medicine and Life Sciences
Honorary Degree Recipients
|
|
YEAR
|
DEGREE
|
NAME
|
|
Spring 2017
|
Honorary Dr. of Science
|
Dr. Mehran Anvari
|
Scientific Director and CEO of the Centre for Surgical
Invention and Innovation, McMaster University
|
|
Spring 2016
|
Honorary Doctor of Public Service
|
Susan Y. Desjardins
|
Major General, United States Air Force
|
|
5/29/2015
|
Honorary Doctor of Science Degree
|
Yvette Roubideaux, MD, MPH
|
Senior Advisor to the Secretary for American Indians, Alaska Natives, IHS, U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services
|
|
2014
|
Honorary Doctor of Science Degree
|
James L. Madara, M.D.
|
CEO, American Medical Association
|
|
2014
|
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree
|
Rob Portman
|
Senator
|
|
2013
|
Honorary Doctor of Science Degree
|
Thomas J. Nasca, M.D.
|
CEO, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
|
|
2012
|
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
|
Chancellor James Petro
|
Ohio Board of Regents
|
|
2012
|
Honorary Doctor of Science Degree
|
Jo Ivey Boufford, M.D
|
President
New York Academy
of Medicine
|
|
2011
|
Honorary Doctor of Science Degree
|
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., MBA
|
President and CEO
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
|
|
2010
|
Honorary Doctor of Science Degree
|
Herbert Pardes, M.D.
|
President and CEO
New York-Presbyterian Hospital
|
|
2010
|
Honorary Doctor of Science Degree
|
Kevin B. Weiss, M.D.
|
American Board of
Medical Specialties
|
|
2009
|
Honorary Doctor of Science Degree
|
Sir Bruce E. Keogh, KBE, MD
|
Claremont House
|
|
2008
|
Honorary Doctor of Science Degree
|
David Leach, M.D.
|
Executive Director/CEO, ACGME
|
|
2007
|
Honorary Doctor of Science Degree
|
Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., President
|
Association of American Medical Colleges
|
|
2006
|
Honorary Doctor of Science Degree
|
Tim Porter-O'Grady, Ed.D., A.P.R.N.,F.A.A.N.
|
Senior Partner,
Tim Porter-O'Grady
|
|
2006
|
Honorary Doctor of Science Degree
|
Raymond R. Sackler, Hon KBE, M.D.
|
Philanthropist,
co-founder/president
of a multinational pharmaceutical company
|
|
2006
|
Honorary Doctor of Science Degree
|
Walter B.Shelley, M.D., Ph.D:, M.A.C.P.
|
World famous dermatologist
|
|
2006
|
|
Kenneth I. Shine, M.D.
|
|
|
2004
|
Claude H. Organ, Jr.,M.S., F.A.C.S.,F.R.C.S.S.A., F.R.A.C.S., F.R.C.S.
Daniel K.Inouye
|
|
2003
|
Marcy Kaptur
Robert W. Schrier, M.D.
Ara Parseghian
|
|
2002
|
Claude Lenfant, M.D.
Leah Curtin,M.A., M.S., R.N.
Jamie Farr
|
|
2001
|
John M.Howard,M.D.
Bernard Lown,M.D.
Beverly L. Malone, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN
David Satcher, M.D.,Ph.D.
|
|
2000
|
Elsa L. Brown, Ph.D.,R.N.
Richard F.Leighton, M.D.
Robert G.Page, M.D.
|
|
1999
|
Dorothy Brooten,Ph.D., R.N.,FAAN
George Isaac
Holmes Morton,M.D.
|
|
1998
|
Jerome P.Kassirer,M.D.
John M. Fredrickson, M.D.
George O. Ojemann,M.D.
Richard D.Ruppert, M.D.
|
|
1997
|
Geraldene Felton,Ed.D., R.N.,FAAN
Robert Furchgott,Ph.D.
William B.Kannel, M.D.
|
|
1996
|
Donald W. Seldin,M.D.
J. Warren Perry,Ph.D.
Ashel G. Bryan
|
|
1995
|
William F. Ganong, M.D.
George D.Lundberg, M.D.
Angela McBride, Ph.D., M.S.N.,B.S.N.
Stephen Abrahamson,Ph.D.
|
|
1994
|
Mary McKinney Edmonds, Ph.D., P.T.
Lucien E.Morris, M.D.
Wilbur H. Sawyer, M.D.,Ph.D.
Willis C. Maddrey, M.D.
|
|
1993
|
Edmond H.Fischer, Ph.D.
Edwin G.Krebs,M.D.
John Glenn
|
|
1992
|
James P. Comer,M.D.
OraL. Strickland,Ph.D., R.N.
David P.Rail,M.D., Ph.D.
Bernadine P.Healy, M.D.
|
|
1991
|
Harold A. McMaster
George W. Thorn,M.D.
Elwood V.Jensen, M.D.
Rosalyn S.Yalow, Ph.D.
|
|
1990
|
Lewis L. Judd, M.D.
Robert C.Gallo,M.D.
Arnold S.Reiman,M.D.
Antonia Coello Novello, M.D.,M.P.H.
|
|
1989
|
Hans Neurath, Ph.D.
Ann Landers
Danny Thomas
Louis W.Sullivan, M.D.
|
|
1988
|
Ada Sue Hinshaw,Ph.D.,R.N.
Bernard B.Brodie,Ph.D.
Victor A.McKusick, M.D.
|
|
1987
|
T.Franklin Williams, M.D.
Lloyd H. Smith,M.D.
Robert G.Petersdorf, M.D.
Delbert Latta
|
|
1986
|
George Libman Engel, M.D.
James V. Warren, M.D.
Ruth L. Kirschstein, M.D.
|
|
1985
|
Maclyn McCarty, M.D.
Jonathan Evans Rhoads, M.D.
Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D.
|
|
1984
|
Harold F.Falls,M.D.
F.Story Musgrave,M.D.
James B. Wyngaarden, M.D.
|
|
1883
|
Frank J. Dixon,M.D.
Charlotte Friend, Ph.D.
Frederick C. Robbins,M.D.
|
|
1982
|
Edward Vaughn Evarts,M.D.
Loretta C.Ford, Ed.D.,R.N.
James A.Rhodes
|
|
1981
|
Michael J.Damas
Richard M. Krause
James V.Neel,M.D.Ph.D.
Thomas L. Stem,M.D.
Bernard Lachner, M.B.A.
|
|
1980
|
MichaelE. DeBakey,M.D.
Henry L. Morse
Charles H. Rammelkamp,Jr.,M.D.
Walter F. Riker, Jr., M.D.
|
|
1979
|
Paul R. Gross,Ph.D.
Frank F.A. Rawling, M.D.
Paul B. Beeson, M.D.
|
|
1978
|
Walter H.Seegers,Ph.D.
John P.Hubbard, M.D.
Eugene A. Stead,Jr., M.D.
|
|
1977
|
Lawrence E.Young,M.D.
Sir Robert Macintosh, D.M. D.
Carleton Gajudsek,M.D.
|
|
1976
|
Rear Admiral Alene B.Duerk
William A.Sodeman, Sr.,M.D.
A.M.Harvey,M.D.
Dedication of Health Education Building
Robert W.Leader,D.V.M.
Walsh McDermott, M.D.
Lewis Thomas,M.D.
|
|
1975
|
W.R. Willard,M.D. Keith R.Porter,Ph.D.
Norman Kretchmer, M.D.,Ph.D.
Dedication of Raymon H.Mulford Library Building
Frank B.Rogers,M.D.
OwseiTemkin, M.D.
|
|
1974
|
Britton Chance,Ph.D.
Rubin H. Flocks,M.D.
John A.D.Cooper,M.D.
Dedication of Health Science Building
Robert M. Berne,M.D.
Elizabeth S.Russell,Ph.D.
George Palade,M.D.
Charles Huggins,M.D.
|
|
1973
|
Irvine H. Page, M.D.
RobertA. Good, M.D.,Ph.D.
|
|
1972
|
Robert Bruce Merrifield,Ph.D.
Robert M. Zollinger,M.D.
John Rusten Hogness,M.D.
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|
|
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Honorary Degree Recipients
|
|
YEAR
|
DEGREE
|
NAME
|
|
2015
|
Dr. of Science
|
RADM Helena Mishoe, PhD, MPH
|
Associate Director, Research Training and Diversity, NHI, National Heart, Lung and
Blood Institute
Former Assistant Surgen General for the US Public Health Service
|
|
2013
|
Dr. of Science
|
Paul Abramowitz
|
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, CEO
|
|
2013
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Suzanne Epstein
|
Office of Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies in the Center for Biologics Evaluation
and Research at the Food and Drug Administration, Associate Director for Research
|
|
2011
|
Dr. of Science
|
Howard Ansel
|
University of Georgia School of Pharmacy, retired dean
|
|
2009
|
Dr. of Humane Letters
|
Frederic Wolfe
|
Health Care REIT and HCR ManorCare, Founder
|
|
2008
|
Dr. of Science
|
Parviz Boodjeh
|
Discount Drug Mart,
CEO and Founder
|
|
College of Law
Honorary Degree Recipients
|
|
YEAR
|
DEGREE
|
NAME
|
|
May 8, 2004
|
Juris Doctor
|
R.E. "Ted" Turner"
|
|
|
May 9, 1981
|
|
Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C.
|
President, University of Notre Dame
|
The awarding of honorary degrees is an extension of the University's goal of recognizing exceptional
achievements.