The University will award five honorary degrees at the 150th Commencement on May 20. Elie Wiesel Commencement speaker and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel is the Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University. He is best known for his book titled “Night,” which is a personal account of his own Holocaust experience.

The year started with the University’s largest-ever incoming class and the further transformation of the South 40.

Washington University will award five honorary degrees this year at Commencement. The degrees will go to Commencement speaker and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel; John H. Biggs, former vice chancellor for administration and finance at the University; Shirley Ann Jackson, the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic University; Griffin P.

Holocaust survivor, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel will deliver the Commencement address, Chancellor Mark Wrighton announced Tuesday evening. The Commencement will take place at 8:30 a.m. on May 20 in the Brookings Quadrangle. The ceremony will be the University’s 150^th commencement. Wiesel will receive an honorary degree from the University.