Dr. Anu Vedantham has served as the Director of the Weigle Information Commons at the Penn Libraries since 2007. She came to Penn from the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey where she directed the Southern Regional Educational Technology Training Center (ETTC) for six years providing professional development for K-12 teachers. At Stockton, she also served as Interim Associate Provost and as Director of Instructional Technology. Her research on global warming has been recognized by the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) as a significant contribution to the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. She served for two years as Director of Grants and Community Initiatives at Stafford Township School District. In the mid-90s, she served as Program Officer at the Telecommunications Opportunities Program at the United States Department of Commerce. She holds her doctorate in Higher Education Management from Penn's Graduate School of Education, her New Jersey Principal Certificate, her Masters in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and her Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Doctoral Dissertation
Making Youtube and Facebook Videos: Gender Differences in Online Video Creation Among First-Year Undergraduate Students Attending a Highly Selective Research University (2011)
Online video creation for YouTube and Facebook is a newly popular activity for college students....
Articles
New Media: Engaging and Educating the YouTube Generation (with Marjorie Hassen), Scholarship at Penn Libraries (2011)
Today’s undergraduates are clearly comfortable as consumers of technology and new media purchasing ring tones...
A Special Report of Working Groups I and III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1999)
This report assesses the effects of aircraft on climate and atmospheric ozone and is the...
Aircraft Emissions: Current Inventories and Future Scenarios (with S. L. Baughcum, J. J. Begin, F. Franco, D. L. Greene, D. S. Lee, M.-L. McLaren, A. K. Mortlock, P. J. Newton, A. Schmitt, D. J. Sutkus, and D. J. Wuebbles), Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1999)
Three-dimensional (latitude, longitude, altitude) global inventories of civil and military aircraft fuel burned and emissions...
Long-term scenarios for aviation: Demand and emissions of CO2 and NOx (with Michael Oppenheimer), Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1998)
This study presents a dynamical systems model for long-term scenarios of demand in the aviation...
Inner City Networking: Models and Opportunities (with Judith Sparrow), Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1995)
Information technologies are fast becoming an essential part of most sectors of the American economy....
Contributions to Books
Aviation and the Global Atmosphere: A Special Report of IPCC Working Groups I and III, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1999)
This report assesses the effects of aircraft on climate and atmospheric ozone and is the...
Reports and Awards
iPads in the Classroom Pilot Project (with Caitlin Shanley) (2012)
The Penn Libraries’ Weigle Information Commons (WIC) launched the iPads in the Classroom pilot in...
Aircraft Emissions and the Global Atmosphere (with Michael Oppenheimer), Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1994)
Emissions from airplanes and their potential global effects on the atmosphere have become the subject...