Seth Meyers Will Give Commencement Speech at Northwestern This Year

EVANSTON, IL - Seth Meyers, host of NBC’s “Late Night” talk show, will deliver the 2016 commencement address at Northwestern University in June.

The school confirmed Tuesday Meyers, one of the nation’s best known comedians and comedy writers who once starred as the “Weekend Update” anchor on Saturday Night Live, will be one of five who will be presented with honorary degrees from the school at the 158th commencement ceremony, set for 9:30 a.m. on Friday, June 17.

Meyers, who has received one Emmy Award and several Writers Guild Awards, is an alum of Northwestern’s School of Communications. He graduated in 1996.

Also receiving honorary degrees from Northwestern during the commencement will be Robert Alter, a University of California, Berkeley scholar who has revolutionized the field of Biblical studies; Richard Lifton, a Yale School of Medicine professor who pioneered the identification of gene mutations causing extreme forms of common disease; Sara S. McLanahan, a Princeton University professor whose scholarship focuses on fragile families and child well-being; and Ruth J. Simmons, a former president of Brown University who has provided path-breaking leadership and scholarship in higher education.