# List of University of Maryland, Baltimore County honorary degree recipients

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:

## Honorary degree recipients, 1970–1979

1970
* Howard K. Smith, Humane Letters
1971
* Patricia Roberts Harris, Laws
1972
* King V. Cheek, Laws
1973
* B.F. Skinner, Humane Letters
1974
* Malcolm Charles Moos, Laws
1975
* Alice Rivlin, Laws
1976
* James S. Ackerman, Humane Letters
1977
* Louis Kaplan, Letters
* Richard Lattimore, Humane Letters
* Albert Sabin, Science
1978
* John Barademas, Laws
* Halden Keffer Hartline, Science
* Ola Belle Reed, Humane Letters
1979
* Peter Gay, Letters
* C.L.R. James, Humane Letters

## Honorary degree recipients, 1980–1989

1980
* Ernst Boyer, Public Service
* Lucille Clifton, Humane Letters
* Donald Henderson, Science
1981
* Sterling A. Brown, Humanities
* Jon Franklin, Humane Letters
1982
* Tom L. Freudenheim, Fine Arts
* John M. Sheehan, Public Service
* Maxim Shostakovich, Fine Arts
* Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Science
1983
* Donald D. Brown, Science
* John L. Crew, Sr., Public Service
* Lotte Jacobi, Fine Arts
* Albin Owings Kuhn, Public Service
* William Arthur Lewis, Laws
1984
* Robert Duncan, Fine Arts
* Stephan Jay Gould, Science
* Raymond V. Haysbert, Public Service
* Roger Rosenblatt, Humane Letters
1985
* Robert M. Ball, Public Administration
* Dorothy Hill, Humanities
* Alice Gwathney Pinderhughes, Public Service
* Maxine Singer, Science
* Chia Chen Tan, Science
1986
* John G. St.Clair Drake, Letters
* Reg Murphy, Public Service
* Pauline Oliveros, Music
* Rudolph G. Penner, Public Service
* James P. Grant, Public Service
* Walter Rosenblum, Fine Arts
1987
* LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., Science
* Charles McC, Mathias, Jr., Science
1988
* Lyn P. Meyerhoff, Fine Arts
* Benjamin Arthur Quarles, Humane Letters
* Walter Sondheim, Jr., Public Service
* Hiltgunt Zassenhaus, Humane Letters
1989
* Paul Duke, Laws
* Frances Morton Froelicher, Public Services
* Kou-ting Li, Science
* Max Roach, Music

## Honorary degree recipients, 1990–1999

1990
* Taylor Branch, Humane Letters
* Eli Jacobs, Humane Letters
* Gwendolyn King, Public Service
1991
* Robert Coles, Humane Letters
* Ralph Gibson, Fine Arts
* Arthur Kornberg, Science
* Enolia McMillan, Public Service
1992
* Henry Cisneros, Public Service
* Nancy Graves, Fine Arts
* Emmett Paige, Jr., Laws
1993
* R. Charles Avara, Public Service
* Perter Lax, Science
* Robert E. Meyerhoff, Humane Letters
* Barbara Mikulski, Letters
1994
* Shirley Chater, Humane Letters
* Louis Goldstein, Humane Letters
* William Hackerman, Engineering
* William C. Richardson, Humane Letters
* Nelson John Sabatini, Public Service
* William Donald Schaefer, Laws
* Lisbeth Bamberger Schoor, Humane Letters
* Carole Simpson, Humane Letters
* Harold Wolff, Laws
1995
* Edward Ray McCracken, Science
* Otto Piene, Fine Arts
* Harold Eliot Varmus, Science
1996
* Stephen M. Case, Science
* Purnell W. Choppin, Science
* J. Robert Kerrey, Public Service
1997
* Carl Djerassi, Science
* John H. Gibbons, Science
* Ira Magaziner, Public Administration
* Donna Shalala, Public Service
1998
* Daniel Saul Goldin, Science
1999
* Rita Rossi Colwell, Science
* John C. Erickson, Public Service
* Nancy Erickson, Public Service
* Darielle Dunn Lineman, Arts
* Earl Louise Linehan, Arts
* Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Public Service
* Sargent Shriver, Public Service

## Honorary degree recipients, 2000–2009

2000
* Thomas R. Chech, Science
* Robert W. Deutsch, Science
* Mayo Shattuck III, Public Service
2001
* Marian Wright Edelman, Public Service
* Hon. Barbara Hoffman, Public Service
* Bob Kahn, Science
* Pete Rawlings, Public Service
2004
* William Foege, Science
* Ursula Burns, Engineering
* William A. Haseltine, Science
2005
* Mary Ann E. Mears, Fine Arts
2006
* Soloman H. Snyder, Science
* Richard Broadhead, Humane Letters
* Alan Lightman, Humanities
2007
* Betsy and George Sherman, Public Service
* Judith Rodin, Humane Letters
* William Brody, Science
2008
* Virginia Dresher, Public Service
* Paul Sarbanes, Public Service
* Franco Einaudi, Science
* Claude Steele, Science
2009
* Thomas Friedman, Humane Letters
* Shirley M. Tilghman, Science
* Peter Agre, Science
* Karen Davis, Public Service

## Honorary degree recipients, 2010-present

2010
* G. Wayne Clough, Science
2011
* Rodney C. Adkins, Science
* Jeffrey R. Immelt, Public Service
* Marie M. Klawe, Public Service
2014
* Mary Schmidt Campbell, Fine Arts
2015
* Andrea Mitchell, Public Service