Honorary Degree Recipients
Honorary degrees are an opportunity for universities to single out people who have made contributions to society. The recognition of selfless dedication to the betterment of mankind has been an overriding theme in the bestowing of honorary degrees by the University of Alaska Board of Regents. Chosen for their leadership roles in the governmental, humanitarian and scientific worlds, Alaskans and non-Alaskans have been selected for this distinguished honor over the years of the institution's existence.
Alphabetical Listing 1932-2021
(** indicates off site link; -- indicates no link)
- Aho, John L.**
- Akiyama, Henry**
- Albanese, Tom**
- Albee, Edward**
- Albrecht, Earl
- Anderson, Clinton P. **
- Anderson, Jacob P. **
- Anderson, Robert O. **
- Andrews, Eleanor**
- Armstrong, Bob **
- Armstrong, Robert Rolland **
- Armstrong, T.E.**
- Aspinall, Wayne N. **
- Asplund, John**
- Atkinson, Helen (Frank)
- Attla, Catherine**
- Atwood, Evangeline **
- Atwood, Robert B.**
- Aumiller, Larry D. **
- Baichtal, James C. --
- Baker, Joel W. **
- Balchen, Bernt **
- Ballew, Lynne **
- Banfield, Mildred
- Banks, James A.**
- Barbara "Bede" Trantina
- Bartlett, E.L. (Bob)
- Bartman, Gusty **
- Barton, Jay
- Baumeister, Alfred A. **
- Beistline, Earl H. **
- Belon, Albert **
- Bentley, Helen D.**
- Berry, William D.
- Berton, Pierre**
- Bingle, Bert J. **
- Blue, Annie Cuyngauyar**
- Boertje, Rodney **
- Bockstoce, John**
- Boochever, Robert**
- Boorstine, Daniel **
- Borbridge Jr., John **
- Botelho, Bruce **
- Boucher, H.A. "Red"**
- Boyd, Louise Arner **
- Brandt, Herbert **
- Brewer, Max C. **
- Brindle, Alexander **
- Britton, Maxwell E. (pdf)
- Bronk, Detlev Wulf **
- Brooks, James W. **
- Brown, Emily Ivanoff
- Brown, Jerry**
- Brown, Margaret L. **
- Brown, Neal B.**
- Brown, Randy J. **
- Bruce Kotre, Christa --
- Bullock, Edith R.
- Bunche, Ralph J. **
- Burger, Joanna**
- Burns, John**
- Buswell, Arthur**
- Butrovich, John
- Calkins, Annie R. **
- C.B. Bettisworth --
- Carey, Michael**
- Carlo, Poldine**
- Carr, Lawrence **
- Carstensen, Richard **
- Cashen, Tom**
- Chapados, Frank X.**
- Chapman, Sydney
- Choue, Young Seek**
- Churchill, Delores **
- Coghill, John B. **
- Cogo, Robert --
- Comeau, Carol **
- Commager, Henry S.**
- Connelly, Hugh H. **
- Conway, Jill Ker **
- Corbus, William **
- Corell, Robert **
- Cosgrave, Ronald **
- Crittenden, Ed **
- Croft, Leland Chancy
- Cuddy, Daniel H. **
- Dahl, Robert A. **
- Dauenhauer, Nora **
- Davis, B. Dale **
- Davis, Carol Beery **
- Davis, Trevor **
- DeArmond, Dale **
- DeArmond, Robert **
- DeFleur, Lois B. **
- Degnan, Frank A. (pdf)
- Dementi, Jean **
- Demientieff, Mary **
- Demmert, Archie **
- Demmert, Ruth **
- Derr, Laraine **
- Dickerson, Mahala Ashley **
- Dimond, Anthony J. **
- Doolittle, James H. **
- Drake, C. Marie **
- Duckering, William Elmhirst
- Eastaugh, Frederick **
- Edward K., Thomas **
- Egan, William A.
- Ellis, Johnnie **
- Elvey, Christian T.
- Engen, Richard **
- Erritzoe, Johannes **
- Fabe, Dana **
- Fanning, Katherine (Kay) **
- Fate, Hugh B.
- Fate, Mary Jane
- Fejes, Claire **
- Field, William B. Osgood **
- Fienup-Riordan, Ann **
- Fischer, Victor **
- FitzGerald, Joseph H. **
- Fitzgerald, Gerald --
- Flakne, Joe **
- Fleagle, Elizabeth **
- Fleischer, Hugh **
- Fleischer, Randall **
- Fletcher, Joseph O. (pdf)
- Flintoff, Corey **
- Floyd, Carolyn
- Flynn, Heather **
- Fohn-Hansen, Lydia
- Fortuine, Robert **
- Frank, Rev. Anna **
- Fry, Franklin C. **
- Gasser, George
- Geist, William
- Glenn, Richard Savik
- Goding, Maurice Wilfred (pdf)
- Goodale, Ellen **
- Goodale, Harvey **
- Gorbachev, Mikhail **
- Gorsuch, Edward Lee **
- Gottlieb, Katherine **
- Gottstein, B.J. (Barney) **
- Gould, Laurence M. **
- Graham, Ronald L. **
- Gravel, Mike **
- Green, Edith S. **
- Grosvenor, Elsie May Bell **
- Grosvenor, Gilbert **
- Gruening, Clark **
- Gruening, Ernest
- Guinn, Nora **
- Haines, John **
- Hale, Mary **
- Hammond, Austin **
- Hammond, Bella **
- Hammond, Jay
- Handler, Philip **
- Hanna, G. Dallas **
- Harper, Jerry Harlan
- Harper, Sandy **
- Hartmann, Gerd --
- Haugen, Earnest J. --
- Hays, Ellen Hope**
- Heagy, Lorrie **
- Hearst, William R. Jr.**
- Heiner, Lawrence **
- Heinmiller, Carl W. **
- Hendrickson, Waino
- Henning, Robert**
- Hensley, Willie L.
- Hermann, Ned**
- Herrington, William C. **
- Heurlin, M.C. Rusty **
- Hickel, Walter J.**
- Hickok, David M. **
- Hiebert, August G.**
- Hills, Alex
- Hilpert, John M. **
- Holdsworth, Phil**
- Holm, Bill**
- Hoover, John **
- Hopkins, David
- Huhndorf, Roy M.
- Hunsaker, David --
- Hunt, Karen **
- Huntington, Sydney**
- Hurley, Katherine Torkelson**
- Kahklen, Joseph M.**
- Kasayulie, Willie **
- Katz, John W. **
- Kaveolook, Harold --
- Keats, Della (pdf)
- Keller, William K. **
- Kennedy, Bruce R. **
- Kennedy, Kay
- Kerr, Clark**
- Kerttula, Jalmar
- Ketzler, Alfred R.**
- Kimpton, Lawrence **
- King, James J. **
- Kitka, Julie**
- Kitka, Sr., Herman **
- Knowland, William Fife **
- Knowles, Tony **
- Kuh, Katharine **
- Kull, Dove (pdf)
- Kum, Jin-Ho --
- Lal, Banarsi **
- Lane, Sandro **
- Larsen, Helge **
- Lawrence, Erma **
- Leach, James **
- Leask, Janie **
- Leavitt, Oliver **
- Lee, Richard Borshay **
- Lehleitner, George **
- Lestenkof, Jake **
- Loftus, Dorothy
- Lopez, Barry **
- Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook **
- Loussac, Zachariah J. **
- Luke, Howard**
- Lund, Ethel**
- MacKenzie, Norman M. --
- Machetanz, Fred
- Madsen, Roy
- Magnuson, Warren G.**
- Mallott, Byron I.
- Malutin, Susan **
- Marchand, Leslie A.**
- Marshall Jr., Thomas **
- Marston, Marvin R. "Muktuk" **
- Martin, Fredericka **
- Mather, Keith B.
- Maurer, Paul --
- McCammon, Molly "Mary Elizabeth"
- McCann, James **
- McCracken, Harold **
- McFarland, Robert E.
- McGinnis, Frederick P. **
- McMillen, Robert **
- McPhee, John**
- Mechau, Dorik **
- Michalski, Peter A. --
- Michener, James A.**
- Middaugh, John **
- Miller, Henry L. **
- Miller, Maynard **
- Mills, William **
- Monserud, Sally
- Moore, Philip H.
- Moore, Terris
- Motley, Langhorne A. **
- Motzfeldt, Jonathan**
- Munoz, Rie**
- Murie, Margaret E.
- Neakok, Sadie Brower **
- Nef, Evelyn Stefansson**
- Nelson, George N. --
- Nelson, Richard**
- Nerland, Andrew
- Nerland, Leslie
- Nesetril, Jaroslave**
- Neuharth, Allen H.**
- Nick, Robert Yuukaq --
- Nighswander, Tom (pdf)
- Nikitin, Yuri Petrovich (pdf)
- Nolan, James
- Nordale, LeDessa **
- Northrip, Charles **
- Notti, Emil
- Nyborg, Keith**
- O'Brien, Leo W. **
- O'Connell, John F. **
- O'Neill, Dan **
- O'Neill, Patrick H. **
- Obuchi, Keizo**
- Okeson, Alvin
- Oliver, Ethel Ross**
- Olson, Marie **
- Osborne, Richard **
- Ostar, Allan W. **
- Ott, Charlie --
- Overstreet, William**
- Parker, Walter B.**
- Parks, George A.**
- Parrish, Al **
- Parrish, Ann **
- Patty, Ernest N.
- Patty, Stanton H.
- Peck, Cyrus E. Sr. --
- Pedersen, Einer Sverre**
- Peratrovich, Frank**
- Perdue, Karen
- Peter, Katherine**
- Pewe, Troy **
- Phillips, Francis J. (pdf)
- Pierce, Danny **
- Pingayak, John**
- Pollard, Jean
- Post, Austin **
- Press, Frank
- Pruitt, William**
- Quam, Louis O. (pdf)
- Rabinowitz, Jay **
- Rader, John **
- Rae, Kenneth M.
- Randolph, Carl --
- Rasmuson, Edward
- Rasmuson, Elmer E.
- Rausch, Robert L. **
- Ray, Dixy Lee **
- Ray, Dorothy Jean **
- Rearden, Jim
- Redfield, Alfred C. **
- Reed, Irene**
- Reed, Irving S.**
- Reed, John C. (pdf not found)
- Reeve, Robert **
- Reeve, Stephen W. --
- Richardson, Kenneth T. **
- Richter-Menge, Jacqueline **
- Riley, Burke **
- Ripley, Elizabeth **
- Rivers, Ralph J.**
- Roberts, Walter Orr**
- Robinson, Charles E. **
- Rock, Howard**
- Roderick, John**
- Rofkar, Teri **
- Rogers, George W. **
- Rogers, Jean
- Rooney, James
- Rose, David **
- Rosenthal, Linda**
- Rosenthal, Paul**
- Rude, Joseph**
- Rutter, Nathaniel --
- Sackett, John
- Salmon, David **
- Samuelson Jr., H. Robin
- Sarnoff, Robert **
- Sasayama, Tadao **
- Sexton, Tom **
- Schaible, Arthur J.
- Schaible, Grace Berg
- Schaller, George
- Schmitz, Henry **
- Scholander, P.F.**
- Scott, Josephine Ryman**
- Seaton, Fred A. **
- Seaton, Stuart Lyman
- See, Frank**
- Selkregg, Lidia Lippi **
- Senungetuk, Ronald
- Servid, Carolyn **
- Shackleton, N.C.**
- Shaw, Robert **
- Shea, Esther --
- Sheffield, Bill **
- Sheldon, Robert **
- Shelton, Hugh **
- Sherwood, Morgan B.**
- Short, Eugene
- Shumaker, Peggy **
- Smith, George **
- Smith, Paul A. --
- Smith, Vernon L. **
- Snedden, Charles W. **
- Snodgrass, Milton D.
- Snodgrass, Roland
- Soboleff, Walter A.
- Southall, Doris **
- Sparks, Mildred --
- Stagg, Ted **
- Steere, William **
- Steese, James Gordon **
- Stepovich, Mike**
- Stevens, Robert W. **
- Stevens, Theodore F.**
- Stewart, Thomas**
- Straley, John H.**
- Strohmeyer, John**
- Sturgelewski, Arliss**
- Subroto, Dr. **
- Sullivan, George**
- Sundborg, George Sr.**
- Taro, Cliff **
- Teeland, Walter Daniel --
- Teller, Edward **
- Terry, Luther L. **
- Thomas, Lowell J. Sr. **
- Tileston, Peg **
- Tillion, Clement V. **
- Tillion, Diana**
- Tilly, Lola Cremeans
- Titley, David W. **
- Toland, John W.**
- Toomey, Sheila
- Toovak, Kenneth "Utuayuk"**
- Torgerson, John
- Townsend, Jack
- Trimble, Gilbert
- Trippe, Juan **
- Troll, Ray**
- Truitt, Gilbert **
- Tussing, Arlon R. **
- Tuve, Merle A. **
- Twining, Nathan Farragut **
- Ulmer, Fran **
- Untersteiner, Norbert **
- Usibelli, Joseph E., Sr.
- Varsos, James “Hobo Jim” **
- Vaughan, Norman D.**
- Viereck, Leslie
- Voth, Elvera **
- Wade, Hugh Joseph **
- Wallen, R.T. "Skip" **
- Walsh, Michael J.
- Warren, Earl **
- Washburn, Barbara **
- Washburn, D. Albert Lincoln**
- Washburn, Henry Bradford Jr. **
- Webber, Patrick J. --
- Weber, Florance Robinson (pdf)
- Weller, Rosamond --
- Wickersham James
- Widmark, Alfred **
- Wien, Noel **
- Wien, Richard **
- Wiks, Margaret Bell **
- Wilkins, Hubert **
- Williams, Lew M. Jr.
- Wohlforth, Eric**
- Wold, Jo Anne (pdf)
- Wood, Dorothy Jane
- Wood, Walter A. (pdf)
- Wood, William Ransom
- Workman, Karen --
- Workman, William
- Worl, Rosita **
- Wunnicke, Esther**
- Young, Donald**
- Zerbetz, Evon **
- de Laguna, Frederica **