Year/ Recipient |
Degree |
Info |
|
| 1990 |
Franklin
Chang-Diaz |
Doctor of Science |
Astronaut, UConn graduate |
|
|
Constance
Baker Motley |
Doctor of Laws |
Chief Judge, Retired, Fed. Dist.
Court, South District of NY |
|
Thomas
F. Melady |
Doctor of Laws |
U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican |
|
Edward
H. Budd |
Doctor of Laws |
Chairman, CEO and President, Travelers
Corp. |
| |
Maurice
Sendak |
Doctor of Fine Arts |
Author and illustrator |
|
| 1991 |
Árpád
Göncz |
Doctor of Laws |
President, The Republic of Hungary |
|
| Fred
Rogers |
Doctor of Letters |
Television producer, performer |
| James
Comer |
Doctor of Laws |
Professor, Yale University |
| Harold
Seidman |
Doctor of Laws |
Professor emeritus, UConn |
| 1992 |
Alice
Cook |
Doctor of Laws |
Former chairman, CEO & Pres., United
Technologies Corp. |
|
| Robin
Morgan |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
Journalist, editor |
| Ellen
A. Peters |
Doctor of Laws |
Chief Justice, State Supreme Court |
| Mildred
Spiewak Dresselhaus |
Doctor of Science |
Scientist |
| 1993 |
Samuel
Birnbaum |
Doctor of Humane
Letters |
Businessman
and philanthropist |
|
| T. Emmet Clarie |
Doctor of Laws |
Judge (retired),United
States District Court for Connecticut |
| Harry A. Gampel |
Doctor of Laws |
Real Estate
Developer, UConn graduate |
| Ronald W. Howard |
Doctor of Fine
Arts |
Actor, Director
and Producer |
| W. Randall Pinkston |
Doctor of Humane
Letters |
News Correspondent,
Journalist |
| Peter H. Raven |
Doctor of Science |
Conservation biologist,
Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden |
| Torsten N. Wiesel |
Doctor of Science |
Nobel laureate,
President of The Rockefeller University |
| 1994 |
H.
E. Abdou Diouf |
Doctor of Laws |
President, Republic
of Senegal |
|
| Phillip I. Blumberg |
Doctor of Laws |
Dean and professor
of law, emeritus, UConn |
| Ronald E. Compton |
Doctor of Humane
Letters |
Chairman, CEO and
President, Aetna Life & Casualty Co. |
| Kevin V. Dowling |
Doctor of Humane
Letters |
Surgeon, UConn trustee |
| Sylvia A. Earle |
Doctor of Science |
Marine biologist,
environmentalist |
| Anthony S. Fauci |
Doctor of Science |
Director,
National Institute of Allergy & Infectious
Diseases, NIH |
| Peter Guber |
Doctor of Humane
Fine Arts |
Chairman and CEO,
Sony Picture Entertainment |
| Richard A. Hayward |
Doctor of Humane
Letters |
Chairman, Mashantucket
Pequot Tribal Council |
| Alice Murray Heilig |
Doctor of Humane
Letters |
Community steward
and philanthropist |
| Charles Heilig |
Doctor of Humane
Letters |
Community steward
and philanthropist |
| Edith W. Martin |
Doctor of Science |
Vice president and
Chief Information Office, INTELSAT |
| Chang-Lin Tien |
Doctor of Science |
Chancellor, University
of California at Berkeley. |
| 1995 |
Betty
Allen |
Doctor of Fine Arts |
Educator, opera
singer |
|
| Michael Bolton |
Doctor of Fine Arts |
Singer, songwriter,
philanthropist |
| A. Leon Higginbotham,
Jr. |
Doctor of Laws |
Chief Judge Emeritus, U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals, Third Circuit |
| Julie Harris |
Doctor of Fine Arts |
Stage and screen
actress |
| Thomas M. Sutherland |
Doctor of Science |
Former Dean, American University, Beirut,
Lebanon |
| Edward O. Wilson |
Doctor of Science |
Educator, biologist |
| William Jefferson
Clinton |
Doctor of Humane
Letters |
President,
United States of America. (Awarded Oct. 15 at the
dedication of the Dodd Research
Center.) |
| 1996 |
Barbara
Chase-Riboud |
Doctor of Letters |
Author, sculptor |
|
| Sanford Cloud Jr. |
Doctor of Humane
Letters |
President
& CEO, The National Conference |
| William H. Cosby
Jr. |
Doctor of Fine Arts |
Actor, producer,
philanthropist |
| Quincy Jones |
Doctor of Fine Arts |
Composer, conductor,
producer |
| Simon Konover |
Doctor of Humane
Letters |
Philanthropist,
Chairman, Konover & Associates |
| Patrick A. McKeown |
Doctor of Science |
Professor
emeritus, Cranfield University |
| Helen Waichen Rogow |
Doctor of Humane
Letters |
Community steward
and philanthropist |
| Laurel T. Ulrich |
Doctor of Letters |
Author
& professor, Harvard University |
| Frances M Visco |
Doctor of Humane
Letters |
President, National
Breast Cancer Coalition |
|
| 1997 |
Aaron
Feuerstein |
Doctor of Humane
Letters |
President and CEO,
Malden Mills |
|
| Robert W. Fiondella |
Doctor of Humane
Letters |
Chair,
pres. & CEO, Phoenix Home Life Mutual
Insurance Co. |
| Samuel Goldwyn Jr. |
Doctor of Fine Arts |
Producer,
director, CEO, The Samuel Goldwyn Co. |
| Norman Hascoe |
Doctor of Science |
President and CEO,
Hascoe Associates, Inc. |
| David M. Lee |
Doctor of Science |
Physicist, UConn
graduate |
| Alvin M. Liberman |
Doctor of Science |
Professor emeritus
of psychology, UConn |
| Rex Nettleford |
Doctor of Letters |
Deputy vice chancellor,
The University of the West Indies |
| Antonia Pantoja |
Doctor of Letters |
Executive director,
PRODUCIR, Inc. |
| William C. Steere
Jr. |
Doctor of Science |
Chairman
of the Board & CEO, Pfizer, Inc. |
| 1998 |
George
Bush |
Doctor of Laws |
Former President
of the United States |
|
| José Cabranes |
Doctor of Laws |
Judge, U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
| Alphonse Chapanis |
Doctor of Science |
Psychologist, educator,
ergonomist |
| Frank McCourt |
Doctor of Letters |
Author, dramatist
and teacher |
| Jack Paar |
Doctor of Fine Arts |
Television host |
| Beverly Sackler |
Doctor of Humane
Letters |
Humanitarian and
philanthropist |
| Raymond R. Sackler |
Doctor of Humane
Letters |
Humanitarian and
philanthropist |
| Varro E. Tyler |
Doctor of Science |
Pharmacognocist
and educator, UConn graduate |
| 1999 |
Noam
Chomsky |
Doctor of Letters |
Professor , Massachusetts
Institute of Technology |
|
| Tomie dePaola |
Doctor of Fine Arts |
Author and illustrator |
| Harry T. Edwards |
Doctor of Laws |
Chief Judge, U.S.
Court of Appeals, District of Columbia |
| David McCullough |
Doctor of Letters |
Historian and biographer |
| Frank D. Rich |
Doctor of Laws |
Philanthropist,
business leader, former UConn trustee |
|
Harold C. Slavkin |
Doctor of Science |
Director,
National Institute of Dental Research |
