Posthumous degree for Reeve

Christopher Reeve will be posthumously awarded an honorary degree at Stony Brook (N.Y.) University’s commencement on May 20.

Reeve, who starred in four “Superman” films from 1978 to 1987, died Oct. 10 at age 52 of complications from an infection caused by a bedsore. He became a spokesman for spinal-cord injury victims after a 1995 horse riding accident left him a quadriplegic.

His doctor of humane letters degree will be accepted by Stony Brook graduate student Brooke Ellison, whose own struggle with paralysis was the subject of a 2004 TV movie directed by Reeve.