Harvard University bestowed an honorary degree on SFI Science Board member Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, during the school's 2013 commencement ceremonies.

Baron May is a professor at Oxford University, a former president of the Royal Society, and a respected figure in quantitative modeling in ecology and biodiversity.

His citation reads: "A prodigious polymath and peerless peer whose mind conceives models that sustain life and whose voice resounds in support of enlightened inquiry."