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UMBC Honorary Degrees Awarded and Commencement Speakers
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2011 |
Degree
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Rodney C. Adkins |
Science |
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Jeffrey R. Immelt |
Public Service |
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Marie M. Klawe |
Public Service |
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2010 |
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Hon. Steny H. Hoyer* (spoke, did not receive degree) |
n/a |
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G. Wayne Clough |
Science |
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2009 |
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Thomas Friedman |
Humane Letters |
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Shirley Tilghman |
Science |
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Peter Agre |
Science |
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Karen Davis |
Public Service |
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2008 |
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Virginia Dresher |
Public Service |
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Paul S. Sarbanes |
Public Service |
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Franco Einaudi |
Science |
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Claude Steele |
Science |
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2007 |
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Betsy and George Sherman |
Public Service |
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Judith Rodin |
Humane Letters |
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William Brody |
Science |
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2006 |
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Soloman H. Snyder |
Science |
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Richard Broadhead |
Humane Letters |
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Alan Lightman |
Humanities |
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2005 |
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Mary Ann E. Mears |
Fine Arts |
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2004 |
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William Foege |
Scienc |
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Ursula M. Burns |
Engineering |
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William A. Haseltine |
Science |
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2003 |
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Elias A. Zerthouni |
Science |
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William “Brit” Kirwan* (spoke, did not receive degree) |
n/a |
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2002 |
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Joseph Bordogna* (spoke, did not receive degree) |
n/a |
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John C. Erickson* (spoke, did not receive degree) |
n/a |
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2001 |
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Marian Wright Edelman |
Public Service |
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Hon. Barbara Hoffman |
Public Service |
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Robert E. Kahn |
Science |
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Hon. Howard Rawlings |
Public Service |
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2000 |
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Thomas R. Chech |
Science |
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Robert W. Deutsch |
Science |
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Jeong H. Kim* (spoke, did not receive degree) |
n/a |
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Mayo Adams Shattuck, III |
Public Service |
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1999 |
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Rita Rossi Colwell |
Science |
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John C. Erickson |
Public Service |
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Nancy A. Erickson |
Public Service |
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Darielle Dunn Lineman |
Arts |
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Earl Louise Linehan |
Arts |
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver |
Public Service |
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Sargent Shriver |
Public Service |
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1998 |
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Daniel Saul Goldin |
Science |
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1997 |
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Carl Djerassi |
Science |
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John H. Gibbons |
Science |
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Ira C. Magaziner |
Public Administration |
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Donna E. Shalala |
Public Service |
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1996 |
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Stephen M. Case |
Science |
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Purnell W. Choppin |
Science |
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J. Robert Kerrey |
Public Service |
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1995 |
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Edward Ray McCracken |
Science |
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Otto Ludwig Piene |
Fine Arts |
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Harold Eliot Varmus |
Science |
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1994 |
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Shirley Sears Chater |
Humane Letters |
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M. Joycelyn Elders* (spoke, did not receive degree) |
n/a |
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Louis J. Goldstein |
Humane Letters |
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William Hackerman |
Engineering |
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William C. Richardson |
Humane Letters |
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Nelson John Sabatini |
Public Service |
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William Donald Schaefer |
Laws |
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Lisbeth Bamberger Schoor |
Humane Letters |
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Carole Simpson |
Humane Letters |
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Harold H. Wolf |
Laws |
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1993 |
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R. Charles Avara |
Public Service |
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Perter D. Lax |
Science |
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Robert E. Meyerhoff |
Humane Letters |
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Barbara A. Mikulski |
Letters |
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1992 |
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Henry Cisneros |
Public Service |
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Nancy Graves |
Fine Arts |
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Emmett Paige, Jr. |
Laws |
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1991 |
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Robert Coles |
Humane Letters |
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Ralph Gibson |
Fine Arts |
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Arthur Kornberg |
Science |
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Enolia McMillan |
Public Service |
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1990 |
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Taylor Branch |
Humane Letters |
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Eli Solomon Jacobs |
Humane Letters |
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Gwendolyn Stewart King |
Public Service |
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1989 |
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Paul Duke |
Laws |
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Frances Morton Froelicher |
Public Services |
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Kou-ting Li |
Science |
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Max Roach |
Music |
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1988 |
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Lyn P. Meyerhoff |
Fine Arts |
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Benjamin A. Quarles |
Humane Letters |
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Walter Sondheim, Jr. |
Public Service |
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Hiltgunt Margret Zassenhaus |
Humane Letters |
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1987 |
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LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr. |
Science |
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Charles McC, Mathias, Jr. |
Science |
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1986 |
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John G. St.Clair Drake |
Letters |
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Reg Murphy |
Public Service |
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Pauline Oliveros |
Music |
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Rudolph G. Penner |
Public Service |
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James P. Grant |
Public Service |
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Walter Rosenblum |
Fine Arts |
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1985 |
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Robert M. Ball |
Public Administration |
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Dorothy Kent Hill |
Humanities |
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Alice Gwathney Pinderhughes |
Public Service |
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Maxine Frank Singer |
Science |
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Chia Chen Tan |
Science |
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1984 |
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Robert Todd Duncan |
Fine Arts |
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Stephan Jay Gould |
Science |
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Raymond V. Haysbert, Sr. |
Public Service |
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Roger Rosenblatt |
Humane Letters |
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1983 |
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Donald D. Brown |
Science |
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John L. Crew, Sr. |
Public Service |
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Lotte Jacobi |
Fine Arts |
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Albin O. Kuhn |
Public Service |
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William Arthur Lewis |
Laws |
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1982 |
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Tom L. Freudenheim |
Fine Arts |
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John M. Sheehan |
Public Service |
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Maxim Shostakovich |
Fine Arts |
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Rosalyn S. Yalow |
Science |
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1981 |
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Sterling A. Brown |
Humanities |
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Jon Franklin |
Humane Letters |
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1980 |
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Ernst L. Boyer |
Public Service |
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Lucille Clifton |
Humane Letters |
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Donald A. Henderson |
Science |
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1979 |
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Peter Gay |
Letters |
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C.L.R. James |
Humane Letters |
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1978 |
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John Barademas |
Laws |
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Halden Keffer Hartline |
Science |
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Ola Belle Reed |
Humane Letters |
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1977 |
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Louis Kaplan |
Letters |
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Richard Lattimore |
Humane Letters |
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Albert S. Sabin |
Science |
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1976 |
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James S. Ackerman |
Humane Letters |
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1975 |
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Alice Mitchell Rivlin |
Laws |
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1974 |
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Malcolm Charles Moos |
Laws |
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1973 |
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B.F. Skinner |
Humane Letters |
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1972 |
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King V. Cheek |
Laws |
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1971 |
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Patricia Roberts Harris |
Laws |
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1970 |
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Howard K. Smith |
Humane Letters |
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