Recent Honorary Degree Recipients
2024
Charles L. Evans (TPR 1985, 1989)
Former President and CEO, Federal Bank of Chicago
Doctor of Public Service
Renée Elise Goldsberry (CFA 1993)
Tony and Grammy Award winning artist
Doctor of Fine Arts
Reeta Roy
CEO and President, Mastercard Foundation
Keynote Speaker and Doctor of Humane Letters
William D. Strecker (ENG 1966, 1967, 1971)
Retired Executive Vice President and CTO, In-Q-Tel
Doctor of Science and Technology
2023
Fred Eversley (ENG 1964)
Artist
Doctor of Fine Arts
Patrick Gelsinger
CEO, Intel Corporation
Keynote Speaker and Doctor of Science and Technology
Lt. General Gina M. Grosso (TPR 1986)
Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and Administration/Operations, Security and Preparedness United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Doctor of Public Service
Judith Light (CFA 1970)
Actor/Producer
Doctor of Fine Arts
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David S. Shapira
Director, Board of Directors, Giant Eagle, Inc.
Chairman, David S. Shapira Foundation
Doctor of Business Administration
2022
Frances Arnold
Linus Pauling Professor, California Institute of Technology
Doctor of Science and Technology
Lieutenant General Jody J. Daniels (MCS’83)
Chief of Army Reserve and Commanding General, US Army Reserve
Doctor of Science and Technology
Manuel Heitor
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon
Doctor of Science and Technology
Evelyn Higginbotham
Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Doctor of Humane Letters
Billy Porter (CFA’91)
Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award Winning Artist
Doctor of Fine Arts
Raj Reddy
University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics and Moza Bint Nasser Chair, School of Computer Science, 麻豆村
Doctor of Science and Technology
Jim Rohr
Retired Executive Chairman and Former CEO, PNC Financial Services Group
Doctor of Business Practice
2021
France A. Córdova
Former Director, National Science Foundation
Former President, Purdue University
Honorary Doctor of Science and Technology
Martha C. Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, Law School and Philosophy Department
The University of Chicago
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
Jewell Parker Rhodes (DC 1975, 1976, 1979)
Piper Endowed Chair, Arizona State University
Founding Artistic Director, Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
Robert Summer (PM 1955)
Music Industry Executive
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts
2019
Darlene Clark Hine
John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of History, Michigan State University
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
David M. Kelley (E 1973)
Donald W. Whittier Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University; Founder, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Stanford University; Founder, IDEO
Honorary Doctor of Science and Technology
Leslie Odom, Jr. (A 2003)
Tony and Grammy Award-Winning Performer
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts and 2019 Keynote Speaker
John Shaffner (A 1976) and Joe Stewart (A 1977)
Emmy Award-Winning Production Designers, Shaffner/Stewart Production Design
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts
2018
Ted Danson (CFA 1972)
Actor, Ocean Advocate
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts
Shafi Goldwasser (MCS 1979)
Director, Simons Institute for Theory of Computing, Professor of Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley
Honorary Doctor of Science and Technology
David Tepper (TPR 1982)
President & Founder, Appaloosa Management L.P.
Honorary Doctor of Business Practice and 2018 Keynote Speaker
Ada Yonath
The Martin S. and Helen Kimmel Professor of Structural Biology; Director, The Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly, Weizmann Institute of Science
Honorary Doctor of Science and Technology
More Past Recipients
For a complete list of past recipients, contact commencement@andrew.cmu.edu.2017
Mahzarin R. Banaji
Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
Honorary Doctor of Science and Technology
Vivian Davidson Hewitt (MM 1944)
Retired Chief Librarian, Art Collector and Distinguished Awards Recipient
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
Michael Keaton
Actor
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts
Bernard Osher
Founder and Treasurer, The Bernard Osher Foundation
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
Meg Whitman
President and Chief Executive Officer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Honorary Doctor of Business Practice and Keynote Speaker
2016
Holly Hunter (CFA 1980)
Actor, Producer
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts
Robert S. Langer
The David H. Koch Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Honorary Doctor of Science and Technology
Earl Lewis
President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters and Keynote Speaker
Sonia Manzano (CFA 1972)
Actor, Writer
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts
James R. Swartz (TPR 1966)
Founding Partner, Accel Partners
Honorary Doctor of Business Practice
2015
Alan Alda
Actor, Writer and Director
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts and Keynote Speaker
Joyce Kozloff (CFA 1964)
Artist
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts
Kai-Fu Lee (S 1988)
Chairman and CEO, Innovation Works
Honorary Doctor of Business Practice
Judea Pearl
Chanellor's Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory, UCLA
Honorary Doctor of Science and Technology
Stephen Schwartz (CFA 1968)
Composer and Lyricist
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts
Carl Wieman
Professor, Department of Physics and Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
Honorary Doctor of Science and Technology