HONORARY degrees have been awarded to University of Huddersfield staff.
The recipients each received Emeritus Professorships.
The title is conferred on a member of staff who is retiring or retired and who is deemed to have served the University as professor with particular distinction.
They were presented with their honours by the Chancellor, Patrick Stewart. They included:
Prof Fen Arthur
The university's former deputy vice-chancellor, Prof Arthur was born into a Tyneside mining family and left school to work as an engineering apprentice in 1956.
He flourished under day-release classes to the extent that his firm sent him to university on full pay.
He graduated with a Durham University degree in 1964 and took an MSc and PhD at Ashton University.
In 1968 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the City of Birmingham Polytechnic, becoming a principal lecturer in 1972. He also established a design and manufacturing company which still operates today.
He came to Huddersfield as assistant rector in 1991 and managed the incorporation of the former West Yorkshire College of Health into the University, where it is now the largest school, the School of Human and Health Sciences.
He has retired to his native North-East with his wife Beryl.
Prof Valerie Marshall:
A NOTED biochemist and an internationally recognised expert in dairy microbiology and microbial biochemistry, she was one of the first external professors appointed by the University in 1992.
Prof Phil Barnes:
THE retiring head of Chemical and Biological Sciences came to Huddersfield after Leeds Met University closed their chemistry department. Enrolments have increased during his tenure.
Prof Adrian Wood:
A NOTED geographer who is known for his wetland and sustainable development research in Ethiopia and for his charity and development work.
Prof Barry Lee:
HE is well-known in Huddersfield for his youth work and service as a Methodist local preacher.
He enjoyed a distinguished career at the University since 1972, first in teaching and research in computing and IT and later as Dean of Computing and Mathematics.
His leadership of the computing and IT area at Huddersfield saw the award-winning development of the former textile mills at Canalside West and the subject's rise up the national league tables.
He still found time to walk all the major footpaths in the Kirklees area and renovate a cottage in France with his wife Jenny. He retired in 2004 and continues his writing, walking and community work.
