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Received honorary Doctor of Science degree on May 20, 2022, from the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), where she served as Chair of Biochemistry in the 1980's. When Dr. Masters accepted the position, she was the only female chair in the history of the institution and before assuming the position, she asked to be guaranteed the opportunity to institute and direct an MD/PhD program at MCW, which was to be established later as an NIH-funded Medical Science Training Program. She also initiated a student award in honor of the first chair of the department, Armand J. Quick, MD/PhD, who studied blood coagulation disorders and developed the Quick prothrombin test. She established an annual lectureship in memory of her Vice-Chair, Charles Fumito Taketa, Ph.D., who was her right-hand during her chairmanship. She was hooded during the in-person commencement by two of her former female faculty members at MCW. Jung-Ja P. Kim, Ph.D., world renowned structural biologist and flavoprotein biochemist, and Nancy M. Dahms, Ph.D., pioneering glycobiologist, who served as President of the Society for Glycobiology in 2021 and was recruited from Washington University in St. Louis to MCW by Dr. Masters, performed the honor. Prior to the commencement ceremony, a modern, spacious conference room was dedicated in Dr. Masters' honor.