Honorary degrees
By Ryan Goodwin
June 7, 2017
The University of Chicago is preparing to celebrate Convocation Weekend on June 9 and June 10. The weekend starts with Class Day, a new UChicago tradition for graduating students in...Read more
May 25, 2017
The University of Chicago will present honorary degrees to three distinguished scholars during Convocation on June 10. The honorary degree recipients are Robert MacPherson, the Herman Weyl Professor of Mathematics...Read more
By Mark Peters
June 6, 2016
The University of Chicago is preparing for its 527th Convocation on Saturday, June 11. The daylong celebration will begin with the University-wide Convocation ceremony starting at 9:15 a.m. in the...Read more
June 6, 2016
Two distinguished scholars and one UChicago Trustee to be presented degrees
June 3, 2016
The University of Chicago will present honorary degrees to two distinguished scholars and one University of Chicago Trustee during the 527th Convocation on Saturday, June 11. The honorary degree recipients...Read more
By Mary Abowd
June 11, 2015
University of Chicago degree candidates will take part in the University’s 523rd Convocation on Saturday, June 13, on the Main Quadrangle. More than 3,000 students will participate in the ceremony,...Read more
By Mary Abowd
June 10, 2015
Career journey comes full circle for historian of Austria's Habsburg Empire
By Wen Huang, Steve Koppes, Ashley Heher
May 20, 2015
Distinguished scholars earn honorary degrees in science, humane letters
May 27, 2014
Distinguished scholars earn honorary degrees in science, humane letters
By Susie Allen, Steve Koppes
May 15, 2013
Distinguished scholars earn honorary degrees in science, humane letters
By William Harms, Steve Koppes, Robert Mitchum
May 8, 2012
The University of Chicago will present honorary degrees to an astronomer, a historian, and a biologist during the 511th Convocation Ceremony on Saturday, June 9 on the Main Quadrangle. The...Read more
By Jessica Tobacman
February 13, 2012
Pacifica Quartet, eighth blackbird to perform works of first composer to receive UChicago honorary degree
By William Harms
October 19, 2011
Marshall Sahlins, the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Anthropology and a world-renowned ethnographer and historian of Polynesia, is receiving important recognitions in Europe this fall for his...Read more
June 9, 2011
Preparations are proceeding around campus for the University’s 507th Convocation ceremony on the morning of Saturday, June 11, when thousands of students and faculty from across the institution will come...Read more
By William Harms, Susie Allen, Steve Koppes, Jeremy Manier
May 11, 2011
The University of Chicago will present honorary degrees to a composer, a mathematician, a paleontologist and a University leader during the 507th Convocation Ceremony on Saturday, June 11. The degree...Read more
By Steve Koppes
May 12, 2010
Oceanographer David Karl, astronomer Robert Kirshner and mathematician Anil Nerode will receive honorary degrees from the University of Chicago during the 503rd Convocation Ceremony June 12 on the Main Quadrangle...Read more