Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, United States has announced a list of eight distinguished achievers who will receive honorary degrees this year. The honorary degree will be conferred at the universitywide commencement ceremony on May 18 at Royal Farms Arena.
The list includes award-winning novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who earned a prestigious creative writing master's from the university, filmmaker Spike Lee, Nobel Prize winner Richard Axel and Ellen M Heller, Maryland’s first woman to become an administrative Circuit Court judge.
"The men and women in this group are visionaries who have challenged the status quo and changed the world for the better," Said John Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels. "They have made a lasting impact on the arts, public health, the law, neuroscience, and the resilience of communities here in Baltimore and across the globe. At Johns Hopkins, we share their commitment to innovate and to work for the benefit of humankind, and I’m so pleased that these honorary degrees will celebrate all they have accomplished."
