Year/ Recipient |
Degree |
Info |
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| 2000 |
Robert
Burton |
Doctor
of Humane Letters |
Chairman,
CEO & President, Walter Industries,
Inc. |
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| Rita Colwell |
Doctor of Science |
Director, National
Science Foundation |
| Christopher J. Dodd |
Doctor of Laws |
U.S. Senator (D-Conn.) |
| Harold Hongju Koh |
Doctor of Laws |
Assistant secretary
of state for democracy, human rights & labor |
| Jules LaPidus |
Doctor of Laws |
President, Council
of Graduate Schools |
| Lionel Olmer |
Doctor of Laws |
Senior
partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison |
| Harvey Sadow |
Doctor of Science |
Retired
CEO, Boehringer Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
| Sheila Widnall |
Doctor of Science |
Professor,
MIT; former secretary, U.S. Air Force |
| 2001 |
Mary
Francis Berry |
Doctor of Laws |
Chair, U.S. Commission
on Civil Rights |
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| Lester Brown |
Doctor of Science |
Founder and Chair,
Worldwatch Institute |
| Shirley Ann Jackson |
Doctor of Science |
President, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute |
| Ray Neag |
Doctor of Laws |
Founder/Director,
Arrow Int., Philanthropist, Class
of '56 |
| Philip Roth |
Doctor of Humane
Letters |
Pulitzer-Prize Winning
Author |
| Thomas Ritter |
Doctor of Laws |
Attorney,
former State legislator, Class
of '77 (LAW) |
| Charles H. Thornton |
Doctor of Science |
Chairman, The Thornton-Tomasetti
Group |
| 2002 |
Judah
Folkman, M.D. |
Doctor of Science |
Medical researcher,
Children's Hospital of Boston |
|
| Frene Noshir Ginwala |
Doctor of Laws |
Speaker, South African
National Assembly. |
| Princess Irene of
Greece |
Doctor of Humane
Letters |
Leader in humanitarian
causes. |
| Bobbie Ann Mason |
Doctor of Letters |
Novelist, short
story writer, writer-in-residence, Univ. of Kentucky |
| Edmund D. Pellegrino,
M.D. |
Doctor of Science |
Medical ethicist,
Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University |
| Joseph Volpe |
Doctor of Fine Arts |
General Manager,
Metropolitan Opera |
| Patricia McGowan
Wald |
Doctor of Laws |
Former judge, U.S.
Court of Appeals |
| William A. Wulf |
Doctor of Science |
President, National
Academy of Engineering |
| Fujia Yang |
Doctor of Science |
Chancellor, The
University of Nottingham |
| 2003 |
Daniel
C. Dennett |
Doctor of Humane
Letters |
Prof.
& director, Center for Cognitive
Studies, Tufts |
|
| Frederick Fennell |
Doctor of Fine Arts |
World's leading
conductor of music for wind instruments. |
| John Kluge |
Doctor of Humane
Letters |
Chairman and president
of Metromedia Co. |
| Philip Leder |
Doctor of Science |
Director,Harvard
Institute of Human Genetics |
| Henry C. Lee |
Doctor of Science |
Forensic
scientist and ormer Commissioner of Public
Safety |
| Arthur Levitt |
Doctor of Laws |
Former
chair, Securities& Exchange Commission |
| Gordon Parks |
Doctor of Fine Arts |
Award-winning photographer,
writer, composer and filmmaker |
| Les Payne |
Doctor of Letters |
Journalist, UConn
alumnus - '64 (CLAS) |
| 2004 |
Iognáid
G. Ó Muircheartaigh |
Doctor of Science |
President, National
University of Ireland. |
|
| Gerhard H. Giebrisch |
Doctor of Science |
Sterling
Professor, Cellular & Molecular Physiology,
Yale |
| Dennis Wayne Archer |
Doctor of Laws |
Mayor,
City of Detroit, Michigan |
| 2005 |
Eduardo Aguirre
(May) |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services |
|
| Morris Sheppard Arnold
(May) |
Doctor of Laws |
United States Court of Appeals, 8th District. |
|
Robert Ballard
(December) |
Doctor of Science |
Mystic Aquarium Institute for Exploration, Mystic, Conn. |
| Dr. Henry B. C. Low
(May) |
Doctor of Laws |
President, MacArthur Foundation. |
| Roger S. Newton
(May) |
Doctor of Science |
Senior VP & director of Esperion Therapeutics division of Pfizer. |
| Tim Page
(May) |
Doctor of Fine Arts |
Wash. Post chief music critic,Pulitzer-prize for criticism 1997 |
| 2006 |
Arthur Caplan |
Doctor of Science |
Author and professor of bioethics, University of Pennsylvania |
|
| David Chase |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
Chairman and chief executive officer of Chase Enterprises |
| Rhoda Cohen Chase |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
Philanthropist |
| Francis S. Collins |
Doctor of Science |
Director of the Human Genome Research Institute |
| U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro |
Doctor of Laws |
U.S. House of Representatives, D-3rd District, Connecticut |
| The Honorable Allyson Duncan |
Doctor of Laws |
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit |
| Barbara Ehrenreich |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
Author and contributing editor to Time magazine |
| Amartya Sen |
Doctor of Laws |
Professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University |
| 2007 |
Wolfgang Ketterle |
Doctor of Science |
John D. MacArthur Prof. of Physics, MIT, Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 |
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| John Krenicki |
Doctor of Science |
President & CEO, GE Energy, Class of '84 |
| Mark R. Shenkman |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
President &CIO, Shenkman Capital Management Inc. Class of '65 |
| Fay Weldon |
Doctor of Letters |
British novelist, essayist, and screenwriter |
| 2008 |
Charlotte Bunch |
Doctor of Laws |
Founder & executive director, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers |
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| Gary S. Gladstein |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
Philanthropist & retired CEO of Soros Fund Management. Class of '66 |
| Garry Wills |
Doctor of Letters |
Scholar & journalist, recipient of numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize |
| 2009 |
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