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The
Honorary Degree Recipients Include:
Eugene
Fama: economist and professor
Roderick
MacKinnon: neurobiologist
Rev.
William Sinkford: President, Unitarian Universalist Assoc.
Katherine Haley Will: President, Whittier College
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John
DiBiaggio became the eleventh president of Tufts University on
August 1, 1992. Prior to that appointment, he served as president
of Michigan State University from 1985 to 1992, and as president
of the University of Connecticut from 1979 to 1985. Dr. DiBiaggio
chose to join Tufts University in 1992 because of its commitment
to excellence in education, to the ethic and practice of public
service and active citizenship, and to a global perspective that
fosters solution-oriented scholarship and research. Among his
achievements at Tufts is the establishment of the University College
of Citizenship and Public Service, which integrates the theory
and application of active citizenship in courses throughout Tufts'
undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. 
Arguably
the best-known financial economist in the world, Eugene Fama helped
write the book on modern finance. A tenured professor at the University
of Chicago before he was 30 years old, Fama began teaching modern
portfolio theory in the 60s at the University of Chicago before
modern finance was an established field. His PhD thesis, "The
Behavior of Stock Market Prices," took up an entire issue of the
University's esteemed Journal of Business. A simplified version
of this paper titled "Random Walks in Stock Market Prices" would
eventually be published in Institutional Investor and its significance
rippled throughout the investment industry far beyond the halls
of academia. From the moment that Fama stepped into the academic
scene, his work raised the eyebrows of finance professors and
investment professionals alike and continues to do so thirty years
later. 
An
award -winning scientist, Dr. Roderick MacKinnon has produced
groundbreaking research detailing the way the body's electrical
systems function, by unlocking the secrets of the body's ion channel
proteins. Described by Science Magazine as "one of the
10 biggest science stories of 1998," MacKinnon's work earned him
one of science's top honors -- the Albert Lasker Basic Medical
research Award. The nation's most distinguished honor for outstanding
contributions to basic and clinical medical research, the prizes
are often called "America's Nobels." 
The
Rev. William G. Sinkford, elected as the seventh President of
the Unitarian Universalist Association on June 23, 2001, is the
first African American president of this historically white denomination.
Sinkford served as Director for Congregational, District and Extension
Services (CDE) at the Unitarian Universalist Association and managed
the largest departmental budget in the Association, supervising
both in-house and field staff. 
Katherine
Haley Will is Whittier College’s 13th president and the first
woman to hold the position in the College's 114 year history.
In addition to her leadership of the College, she is active in
the greater Los Angeles and higher education communities. As
president at Whittier College, Kate Will has recently completed
the facilitation of a comprehensive strategic planning process,
which produced a ten-year plan for the College, approved in November
2001 by the Board of Trustees. Will also initiated a complete
redesign and upgrade of the College Web site, and has overseen
the College’s reaffirmation of accreditation by the Western Association
of Schools and Colleges. 
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