Four alumni have been selected to receive honorary degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Kyung J. Kwon-Chung, head of the molecular microbiology section at the National Institutes of Health, will be awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Science; Sheldon B. Lubar, business and civic leader, will receive the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters; Joan Wallach Scott, Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, N.J., will receive the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters; and Oliver Smithies, Excellence professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will be awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Science.