Honorary Degree Recipients Archive
Through the years, these individuals were selected to receive the highest honor from The University of Rhode Island. These are the individuals who distinguished themselves through important contributions to the University, to the State of Rhode Island, or to the nation — individuals who deserved to be honored by the University and who bring honor to the University by having accepted a URI degree.
2015 Recipients
Tanzi, Rudolph E.
Cherry, Shirley
Schnelle, Rolf-Dieter
Taylor, Angus C. F.
DiMaio Jr., Leo F. (posthumously)
2014 Recipients
Blanco, Richard
Flynn, LTG Michael T. (Revoked, January 2022)
LaFayette Jr., Bernard
Nolan, Anne
2013 Recipients
Feroce, Giovanni
Rafaelian, Carolyn
Kennard, Mary
DiMuccio, Robert A.
Simon, Franklin Wallace
2012 Recipients
Bodden, Marlen Suyapa
DeVaudreuil, Amy
Saulnier, Philip J.
Subramaniam, Shivan
2011 Recipients
Baxt, Victor
Booker, Cory
Hassenfeld, Alan
Leinen, Margaret
2010 Recipients
Adams, Karen
King, John
Sakakibara, Sadayuki
Terry, Lesa
2009 Recipients
Brennan, William J.
Neves, Jose Maria Pereira
Walton, Charles D.
2008 Recipients
Doody, Agnes
Durand, Douglas
Fascitelli, Michael
Hill, Christopher
Page, Clarence
Warner, William
2007 Recipients
Chafee, Lincoln D.
Mukherjee, Joia Stapleton
Musco, Sebastain Paul
Rao, Calyampudi Radhakrishna
2006 Recipients
Hirsch, Janet
Joyal, Fred
Langley, Dennis
Williams, Frank J.
Wroe, Thomas, Jr.
2005 Recipients
Hong, Seoung-Yong
Hood, Ann
McKinstry, Nancy
Murphy, John
Ross, Mark
Stoukides, John Aristotle
Vogel, Paula
2004 Recipients
Chafee, Stephanie Danforth
Gallant, Matthew J.
LaPorte, Leon J.
MacDonell, Herbert Leon
Smith, Deborah
Verrecchia, Alfred J.
2003 Recipients
Almond, Lincoln C.
Anderson, Susan E.
Beaupre, Richard E.
Doyle, Daniel E. Jr. (Revoked, January 2018)
Giuliani, Rudolph (Revoked, January 2022)
Kaull, Caroline Tennant
Merenda, Peter F.
Wolf, Rt. Rev. Geralyn
2002 Recipients
Doctor, Wilbur
Harrington, Richard
Schock, Nancy Carpenter
French
Shattuck, John
2001 Recipients
Avarista, Marion F.
Kim, David
Lahiri, Jhumpa
McCarthy, Marlene
Mossberg, Walter S.
2000 Recipients
Blount, Lt. General Bruce
Demetrakas, Gregory and Anna
Halyburton, Porter
Higgins, Robert J.
King, Coretta Scott
Maguire, Mairead Corrigan
Wood, Reverend Dr. Virgil
1999 Recipients
Ferrante, William R.
Graboys, George
Guinier, Lani
Lott, Bernice
Ryan, Thomas M.
Valdez, Luis
1998 Recipients
Begley, Ed Jr.
Carey, James W.
Eddy, Edward D.
Eddy, Mary “Polly” S.
Feinstein, Alan Shawn
Galanti, Peter Marinus
Meek, Barbara
Quinn, John Collins
Sundlun, Bruce
Walsh, J.T. (posthumously)
1997 Recipients
Baer, Nadine (Hon MLS)
Budnick, Alfred S.
DiFazio, Louis T.
Driscoll, Jean
Ferguson, Claire
Love, Dr. Susan
Sang-Woo, Shin
Shelton, Henry
Tootell, Lucy Rawlings
White, John Hazen, Sr.
Wiesel, Elie
1996 Recipients
Corey, Lester W.
Dickinson, Brian
Earle, Sylvia
Gray, Mary A.
Hunt, Reverend George N.
Lewis, Captain John R.
Love, Robert
Pell, Nuela
1995 Recipients
Amanpour, Christiane
Finkelstein, Augusta
Kirk, Heidi
Ostrach, Simon
1994 Recipients
Boorda, Jeremy M.
Frederick, Lafayette
Ireland, Patricia
Love, Christoper Blake (posthumously)
Magaziner, Ira C.
Malkovich III, Mark P.
McCreight, Sandra S.
Meyerson, Martin
Monroe, Phyllis
Pezzullo, Thomas R. (posthumously)
Reilly, Sr. Mary
Torman, Howard
1993 Recipients
Corr, J. William, Jr.
Farmer, James
Hawkes, Alfred L.
Hindle, Marguerita C.
Maeda, Katsunosuke
Nardone, Henry J.
Sekatau, Ella Wilcox Thomas
Smith, David M.
Sturges, Benjamin R.
1992 Recipients
Bagdikian, Ben Haig
Creedon, Rev. Joseph D.
Hope, Bob
Jack, J. Louis
Knauss, John A.
Kinney, Lorenzo D., Jr.
Mollica, Joseph A.
Osborne, Jeffery (Hon B)
Peters, Roberta
Strossen, Nadine
Thompson, O. Rogeriee
Youngken, Heber W., Jr.
1991 Recipients
Adams-Ender, Clara L.
Gutterman, Rabbi Leslie Y.
Kamba, Walter J.
Mario, Ernest
1990 Recipients
Anderson, Harry
Benson, Frederick J.
Carlotti, Albert
Langhammer, Peg
Murray, Terrence
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
1989 Recipients
Bisson, William R.
Carlson, Eleanor
DeFrantz Anita
Newman, Frank
1988 Recipients
Levine, Irving R.
Murray, Blanche
Murray, Dan
McLaughlin, Ann
Sullivan, Leon
Wilkes, David
1987 Recipients
DiPrete, Edward D.
Essex, Myron
Oster, Richard M.
Pettine, Raymond J.
Rainville, A. Robert
Saks, Gene
Sculley, John
1986 Recipients
Ballard, Robert David
Crandall, Robert Lloyd
Gould, William Benjamin IV
Hogg, Russell Elton
Stahl, Lesley
1985 Recipients
Jennings, Peter C.
Sarni, Vincent A.
Schock, Edson I.
Van Leesten, Michael S.
1984 Recipients
Browne, Dr. Rose Butler
Cope, Oliver
Peterson, Reverend Thomas
Turco, Vincent Joseph
1983 Recipients
Beretta, David
Howe II, Harold “Doc”
Ress, Joseph William
Steward, Rowena
Wiley, William D.
1982 Recipients
Boss, Bradford R.
DiLuglio, Domenic R.
Grossman, Morton A.
Grossman, Ruth L.
Stockdale, James Bond
Wiley, Alton W.
1981 Recipients
Kirk, Chester
Kirk, Kenneth L.
Sawyer, Ada L.
Smith, Warren D.
1980 Recipients
Adler, Mortimer
Blount, Luther
Slater, Eleanor
Zorabedian, Richard
1979 Recipients
Brown, Edwin C.
Gulland, John A.
Jackson, Jesse L.
McKenna, Margaret A.
Potter, Ralph C.
1978 Recipients
Bethune, Ade
Enes, Jose
Press, Frank
Rego, John L.
Richardson, Elliot Lee
1977 Recipients
Bell, Andrew J., Jr.
Garrahy, J. Joseph
Kelly, Lucie Young
Kelman, Arthur
Martin, Faith McNulty
McManus, R. Louise
Woodcock, Leonard
1976 Recipients
Caldwell, Sarah
D’Wolf, Nancy Bradford
Lanning, Frank B.
Moore, Clifton A.
1975 Recipients
Hoban, Albert J.
Husen, Torsten
Noel, Philip W.
Redwing, Princess Mary
1974 Recipients
Baum, Werner A.
Eichenberg, Fritz
Flanagan, William F.
Foster, Millicent S.
Hall, Charles A.
Kenyon, Bradford H.
Wiley, George
1973 Recipients
Dykstra, Jacob J.
Farrell, James P.
Kauffman, Joseph F.
Tiernan, Robert O.
1972 Recipients
Downing, Antoinette F.
Namias, Jerome
Samuelson, Paul A.
Schwier, Mildred E.
1971 Recipients
Arris, George
Licht, Frank
Sapinsley, Lila M.
1970 Recipients
Kibarian, Barkey
Stanford, Henry King
White, Louis
1969 Recipients
Cargill, Daniel Olney
Haworth, Leland John
Horn, Francis H.
1968 Recipients
Brown, George H.
Casserly, Catherine M.
Fuller, Richard Buckminster
Iselin, Columbus O’Donnell
Miller, George William
Riley, Gordon A.
Spilhaus, Athelstan
Wenk, Edward, Jr.
Woodbury, Harry G., Jr.
Wright, Stephen J.
Zirkind, Ralph
1967 Recipients
Bohnen, Eli A.
DeWolf, Robert
Doyle, James J.
Edwards, William H.
Fain, Norman M.
Gardner, John W.
Hass, William P.
Heffner, Ray L.
Jackson, Lady Barbara
Jones, Nettie Marie
Knowles, Asa
Levy, June Rockwell
Mainelli, Hugo
McConnell, John W.
Potter, Nancy A. J.
Reuther, Walter P.
White, Nelson C.
1966 Recipients
Bronk, Detlev W.
Doxiadis, Constantinos A.
Fish, Marie Poland
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Kelleher, William O.
Kerr, Clark
Melson, Charles L.
Mirando, Felix A.
1965 Recipients
Aldrich, Winthrop W.
Chafee, John H.
Cousins, Norman
Friendly, Fred W.
Hartung, Ernest W.
Macdougald, William T.
Proctor, Samuel D.
Schuman, William
Wheeler, Gen. Earle G.
1964 Recipients
Ackroyd, Margaret O’Conner
Austin, Bernard L.
Cheadle, Vernon I.
Copland, Aaron
Farrell, Marie
Kemalian, Anthony
Moses, Robert
Pell, Claiborne
Terry, Luther L.
Udall, Stewart L.
Wirtz, W. Willar
1963 Recipients
Belluschi, Pietro
Dore, Vincent C.
Gaige, William C.
Hanley, Arthur F.
Hodgson, Percy
Murray, Florence K.
Notte, John A., Jr.
Rusk, Dean
Trott, Raymond H.
1962 Recipients
Browning, Harold W.
Brucher, Olga P.
Crandall, Julian T.
McNamara, Andrew T.
Morton, Robert C.
Walker, Eric A.
1961 Recipients
DelSesto, Christopher
Farrell, Eileen
Malik, Charles H.
O’Conner, Daniel A.
Tanner, Frederick C.
Wilson, Logan
1960 Recipients
Aldrich, Daniel G., Jr.
Benson, Ezra Taft
Bigelow, Henry Bryant
Braude, William G.
Eisenhower, Dwight David
Ewing, W. Maurice
Gardner, Emmet G.
Heeney, A.D.P.
Hesburgh, Rev. Theodore
Ingersoll, Stuart H.
Magoun, Horace W.
Mather, Jean Paul
1959 Recipients
Brown, T. Dawson
Johnson, Eldon L.
Savastano, Americo A.
Woodward, Carl R.
1958 Recipients
Bowles, Chester
Henry, David Dodds
Keeney, Barnaby C.
Knoblauch, Harold C.
Maynard, Leonard A.
1957 Recipients
Diehl, Helmut C.
Hanley, James L.
Kelley, A. Livingston
Sarnoff, General David
Sherman, Clarence
1956 Recipients
Ladd, Dr. Joseph H.
Smith, Sen. Margaret Chase
Spargo, George E.
1955 Recipients
Adams, James P.
Ell, Carl S.
Winton, Kate B.
1954 Recipients
Eisenhower, Milton S.
Hannah, John A.
Hoffman, Paul G.
Strauss, Lewis L.
1953 Recipients
Bunche, Ralph H.
Carmichael, Leonard
Daniels, Farrington
Kraus, Charles A.
Leonard, Mrs. Newton P.
Noyes, William A.
Sachar, Abram L.
Stakman, Elvin C.
Winne, Harry A.
1952 Recipients
Cassidy, Rev. Thomas V.
Clothier, Robert C.
Lawrence, George H.
Stillwell, Margaret B.
Wilson, Milburn L.
1951 Recipients
Flanders, Ralph E.
Jorgensen, Albert N.
Roberts, Dennis J.
Thorpe, Gen. Elliott R.
1950 Recipients
Adams, Arthur S.
Bennett, Rev. Granville G.
Fine, Benjamin
Waksman, Dr. Selman A.
1949 Recipients
DeGraff, Bartholomew R.
Hettrick, Dean E.
McVinney, Bishop Russell J.
Pastore, Senator John O.
1948 Recipients
Brown, John N.
Case, Norman S.
Dunlap, Renwick W.
Farnum, Royal B.
Hunt, Alice W.
Kennerson, William H.
Knott, James E.
Lewis, Harry R.
Sikorsky, Igor I.
Spruance, Adm. Raymond A.
Tigert, John J.
1947 Recipients
Marsh, Daniel
Wales, Royal L.
1943 Recipients
Hauck, Arthur A.
Morriss, Margaret S.
1942 Recipients
Keyes, Frederick G.
Tillinghast, Theose E.
Wriston, Henry M.
1941 Recipients
Woodruff, James A.