UA Announces Honorary Degree Recipients for May Commencement

The University of Arkansas in Fayetteville announced Thursday it will award honorary degrees next month to Frank Broyles and James Hildreth.

Broyles coached football at the UA for 19 seasons and served as athletic director for another 31 years.

Broyles retired from the University on Dec. 31, 2007, and went to work for the Razorback Foundation. Broyles retired last July from the Razorback Foundation and now works full time with The Frank and Barbara Broyles Foundation, an organization dedicated to touching the lives of those suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers

Hildreth, a native of Camden, is dean of the College of Biological Sciences at the University of California-Davis, and has been a pioneer in HIV and AIDS research, according to a UA news release. He attended Harvard University and became the first African American Rhodes Scholar from Arkansas. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in chemistry and earned a doctorate in immunology at Oxford University in England.

Both honorary degrees will be presented during the All-University Commencement ceremony that begins at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, May 9, in Bud Walton Arena on the UA campus. Both Broyles and Hildreth will speak to the graduates during the ceremony.