Penn Libraries Director of the Weigle Information Commons, Anu Vedantham, recently received a 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Certificate for her substantial contribution to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Prior to coming to Penn, Ms. Vedantham served as a lead author for the IPCC special report, Aviation and the Global Atmosphere, published in 1999 by Cambridge University Press. Her research, guided by Dr. Michael Oppenheimer, Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs at Princeton University, and sponsored by the non-profit organization Environmental Defense, focused on projections of aircraft emissions of NOx and CO2 that contribute to climate change. From 1997 to 1999, she collaborated with an international group of scholars to write the IPCC report's ninth chapter, titled "Aircraft Emissions: Current Inventories and Future Scenarios."

Ms. Vedantham completed her Masters in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and her Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Higher Education Management at Penn's Graduate School of Education.

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Joe Zucca, Director of Planning and Communication