NBC News meteorologist Dylan Dreyer, co-host of 3rd Hour of TODAY and weekday weather correspondent and regular co-host for TODAY and Nightly News with Lester Holt, will give the Rutgers University School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) keynote address on May 19.
Long before she became a familiar face nationwide on NBC News and TODAY, Dylan Dreyer signed up for "Meteorology 101" her first year at Rutgers–New Brunswick. It turned out to be her favorite class.
“It was before I even know I wanted to get into meteorology,” Dreyer said in a 2017 NBC News video featured on YouTube. “Taking that class really helped me to decide that was the major I want to study.”
Dreyer’s time on campus included serving as a weather anchor on both the Rutgers TV network and radio station before graduating cum laude with a bachelor of science degree in meteorology in 2003. “I went on to be a meteorologist and do meteorology for a living,” she said. “That was a very important class to me.”
Dreyer will return to the Cook Campus at Rutgers–New Brunswick to deliver her speech at the 2025 SEBS Convocation Ceremony at 10 a.m. Monday, May 19, which will be carried on the school's YouTube page.
Dreyer is among an extensive list of Rutgers graduates who serve as meteorologists around the country. Earlier this year, the Great Things to Know about Rutgers brochure cited Dreyer and seven other Rutgers alumni who are on-air meteorologists nationwide:
- Michael Autovino SEBS’17, Spectrum News NY1
- Kelly Ann Cicalese SEBS’11, ABC affiliate WCVB, Boston
- Justin Godynick SEBS’10, NBC10, Philadelphia
- Jeremy Lewan SEBS’22, ABC affiliate WNEP, Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Jane Minar SEBS’19, FOX Weather, New York
- Karen Rogers LC’92, ABC affiliate WPVI, Philadelphia
- Heidi Werosta SEBS’16, KFYR, Bismarck, North Dakota
To learn more about the SEBS undergraduate program in meteorology and its alumni, read “Preparing Tomorrow’s Meteorologists,” a Rutgers feature story from 2023.
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