Doctor of Science degree from Tufts University in May 1991. Honorary doctorate in medicine from the University of Natal. Medal of Distinction from Barnard College in the United States. Ramphele is also a former fellow of the Bunting Institute and was elected as an honorary member of the Alpha and Iota chapters of Phi Beta Kappa at Radcliffe and Harvard Colleges. Honorary doctorate of humane letters degree from New York University in May 2007. Admitted to the Order of Simon of Cyrene in 2010. Officer of the Legion of Honour, the highest decoration in France. Lifetime Achiever Award from the National Research Foundation in 2007. Publications with Francis Wilson. This book draws together research conducted by the second Carnegie inquiry into poverty and development in South Africa and received the 1990 Noma Award, an annual prize given to African writers and scholars whose work is published in Africa. co-editor with Barney Pityana, Francis Wilson, et al co-editor with Chris McDowell, this publication deals with the ecological challenges facing post-apartheid South Africa. This book was based on Ramphele's PhD thesis in social anthropology, The Politics of Space, and deals with life in the migrant labour hostels of Cape Town. with Johnnetta B. Cole See also List of people subject to banning orders under apartheid Notes and references External links Biography on Who's Who, South Africa 1947 births Living people People from Limpopo Northern Sotho people University of Natal alumni Anti-apartheid activists Rockefeller Foundation people Academic staff of the University of Cape Town University of Cape Town alumni South African activists South African women activists University of the Witwatersrand alumni Biko family Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cape Town Members of the National Academy of Medicine Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences Honorary Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences