page_title: List of University of Maryland, Baltimore County honorary degree recipients
section_title: Honorary degree recipients, 1980–1989
hierarchical_section_title: List of University of Maryland, Baltimore County honorary degree recipients / Honorary degree recipients, 1980–1989
caption_attribution_description: English: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
context_page_description: 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:
context_section_description: 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
caption: 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.
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