SYRACUSE -- Syracuse University announced Monday that Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, will deliver the 2013 Commencement address at the Carrier Dome on May 12.

“Nicholas Kristof personifies so many of our aspirations for our graduating students,” said SU Chancellor and President Nancy Cantor in a release. “He dives right into the great challenges of the world, using his incredible talents as a journalist and profound empathy as a humanitarian to draw us all closer to people courageously confronting injustice, whether in cities and towns across America, or in Sudan, Japan, India or China. As our graduating students prepare to go out and make a difference in the world, they could not hear words of wisdom from anyone more experienced at doing just that.”

Kristof has worked at The New York Times since 1984 and was the first blogger on the New York Times web site, according to SU. He has a special interest in web journalism and utilizes social media to enhance his reporting.

“I hope to give them [students] something to think about as they work out the next chapters of their lives,” Kristof says in a media release.

Kristof won the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 and 2006, according to the New York Times, and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2012. Kristof has co-authored three books with his wife Sheryl WuDunn.

Read the full announcement from SU.