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Honorary Degrees | ALUMNI


Honorary Degrees

Winter Commencements December 2008

» Sir David Attenborough Litt.D., naturalist and pioneer of nature documentaries for over 50 years was conferred with a Doctor in Letters. His television series have been highly infl uential in raising both an appreciation of the natural world and awareness of the environmental crisis threatening it.

» Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell Sc.D., astrophysicist and President of the Institute of Physics, Dame Jocelyn has been Professor of Physics at the Open University since 1991 and is currently visiting Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford. She was conferred with a Doctor in Science.

» Dame Ann Dowling Sc.D., Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cambridge, Director of the University Gas Turbine Partnership with Rolls-Royce, and head of the Cambridge division of research in aeronautics and energy was conferred with a Doctor in Science.

» David P. Farrington Sc.D., is Professor of Psychological Criminology at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge Study of Delinquent Development. He is a leading authority on crime prevention and author of over 15 books in the areas of comparative criminology, bullying, developmental prevention and the impact of criminological interventions. He was conferred with a Doctor in Science.

» Terry Pratchett Litt.D., one of the most important satirists in the English language and author of the famous Discworld series of books was conferred with a Doctor in Letters for his outstanding literary contributions. He has won numerous literary awards and was awarded an OBE in 1998

(Photo captioned: (l-r) David Farrington, Dame Ann Dowling, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Sir David Attenborough and Terry Pratchett)


Summer Commencements June 2009

» Amartya Sen LL.D., was awarded a Nobel Prize in economics in 1998 and is best known for his contributions and work on famine, human development theory and welfare economics. He is currently Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University. He was conferred with a Doctor in Letters.

» Janet Browne Sc.D., former zoology graduate of Trinity College, is the world's leading scholar on the life, times, and thought of Charles Darwin. Professor Browne is currently Aramont Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. She was conferred with a Doctor in Science.

» Patrick Scott Litt.D., one of the most successful and infl uential Irish visual artists of the 20th century was conferred with a Doctor in Letters in recognition of his life-long contribution to the arts in Ireland. As the foremost modernist in Irish art, he was central to bringing modernism to Ireland.

» Robert Dunbar D.Ed, has been a key fi gure for the establishment of children’s literature as an academic subject in Ireland and beyond. Founding member of the Children’s Literature Association of Ireland and its President for two years. He was conferred with a Doctor in Education.

» Sir Fraser Stoddart Sc.D., a leading nanoscientist was formerly Acting Director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) and the Fred Kavli Chair of NanoSystems Sciences at UCLA and is currently Professor of Chemistry at the Northwestern University in Chicago. He was conferred with a Doctor in Science.

(Photo captioned: Back Row (l-r) Provost, Dr John Hegarty, Professor Amartya Sen, Robert Dunbar. Front Row (l-r) Patrick Scott, Professor Janet Browne, Chancellor Mary Robinson, Professor Fraser Stoddart)


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