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Eric Gerald Stanley, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor Emeritus of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford is renowned as one of the leading scholarly figures in the field of English language and literature. The University of Toronto awarded him an honorary doctor of laws degree June 17 for his exceptional scholarly contributions to the field of English language and literature, including his longstanding collaboration with colleagues at the University of Toronto.

The University of Toronto awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree June 16 to John Christopher Counsel Wansbrough, the chair of Rogers Telecommunications Limited who has been director of Rogers Communications, Inc. since 1982.

University Professor Richard Bond of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research cosmology and gravity program, is the recipient of the 2008 Cosmology Prize of the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, co-sponsored by the International Astronomical Union, for his groundbreaking theoretical work on structure formation and evolution of the universe.

As faculty and students put on their gowns and prepare for convocations few of them realize that U of T's groundskeepers started getting ready for this moment long before exams began.

Psychiatrist Vivian Rakoff, a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, received an honorary doctor of science degree at the June 11 convocation. Rakoff, the former chair of U of T's Department of Psychiatry and former director and psychiatrist-in-chief at Toronto's Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, was honoured for his contributions to the field of psychiatry and his work in establishing U of T as a leader in the study of brain disease.