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Eleven To Receive Honorary Degrees

Currently the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Professor Emeritus at the Rockefeller University, McCarty was a faculty member for he Rockefeller University for Medical Research from 1941 until his retirement in 1981.

McCarty is a Stanford University graduate and received his master's from John Hopkins University.

He has also received the Wolf Prize in Medicine and the Lasker Special Public Health Award.

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Constance Baker Motley

A prominent judge and civil rights lawyer, Motley was the first black woman appointed as a federal judge and elected to the New York States Senate.

Motley has also served the NAACP for 20 years, litigating cases such as Brown v. Board of Education.

Motley was educated at New York University and received an LL.B. from Columbia University in 1946.

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