Honorary Degree Recipients

Spring 2012

• Robert D. Ray
  Former Governor of the State of Iowa
  Honorary Doctor of Law
• Robert Osterhaus
  Former member of the Iowa State House of Representatives
  Honorary Doctor of Science
• Stanley F. Redeker
  Former President of the Board of Regents, State of Iowa
  Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters

December 2011

No degrees were given.

Spring 2011

• Jerre Stead
  UI benefactor
  Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
• Richard Myers
  Former member of the Iowa House of Representatives
  Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
• Gene Wilder
  Actor
  Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters  

Note:  Mr. Wilder's award was approved by the Board of Regents -  State of Iowa, but has not yet been conferred.  The university hopes to host Mr. Wilder so that the award may be conferred in person.

December 2010 

• Arthur Neu
  Former State senator
  Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters

Spring 2010

• Tom Brokaw
  Television journalist and author
  Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
• Robert Hass
  Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate
  Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
• C. Vivian Stringer
  Forrmer UI Women’s Basketball Coach
  Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
• Gregs Thomopulos
  CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Stanley Consultants, Inc.
  Honorary Doctor of Science
• John Pappajohn
  Entrepreneur and UI Benefactor
  Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters

December 2009

• Henry B. Tippie
  Businessman and UI Benefactor
  Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters

Spring 2009

• Johan Hultin
  Noted pathologist and medical
  Honorary Doctor of Science

December 2008

• Himie Voxman
  Clarinet legend and former director of the UI School of Music
  Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters

Spring 2008

• Robert M. Solow
  Nobel Prize for Economics
  Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
• Orhan Pamuk
  Nobel Prize for Literature
  Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters

Note: Mr. Pamuk's award was approved by the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, but has not yet been conferred. The university hopes to host Mr. Pamuk so the award may be conferred in person.

December 2007

• Dr. Ignacio Ponseti
  Orthopaedic Surgeon
  Honorary Doctor of Science
• Marvin Pomerantz
  Philanthropist
  Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters

Note: No honorary degrees were conferred from June, 1981 to 2007.

June, 1981

• Willard (Sandy) Boyd
  President Emeritus of the University of Iowa and Professor of Law
  Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters

June 1969

• Marquis W. Childs
  American journalist and Pulitzer Prize recipient
  Doctor of Letters

June 1968

• Edward H. Levi
  U.S. Attorney General
  Doctor of Laws

June 1967

• George H. Gallup
  American public opinion statistician, originator of the Gallup poll
  Doctor of Laws

June 1966

•  Walter P. Reuther
  American labor union leader
  Doctor of Laws

June 1965

• W. Willard Wirtz
  U.S. Secretary of Labor
  Doctor of Laws

June  1963

• Dr. Richard E. Shope
  Physician who discovered the virus associated with the 1918 influenza pandemic
  Doctor of Science
• Lewis L. Strauss
  American financier and chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission
  Doctor of Laws

April, 1962

• Earl Warren
  Chief Justice of the United States
  Honorary Doctor of Laws