Washington:
Noted Indian environmentalist Rajendra K Pachauri would be felicitated with the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by the Brandeis University in Massachusetts next week.
Pachauri, the chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with former US Vice President Al Gore, would also deliver the Heller School Commencement Address at the university's function on May 17, a media release said on Tuesday.
Several other eminent personalities would be honoured by the university on the occasion.
Prominent among them are renowned conductor James Conlon, famed opera singer Marilyn Horne, choreographer Bill T Jones, Holocaust survivor and scholar Israel Gutman, Israeli entrepreneur and industrialist Stef Wertheimer, and Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker.
Sixty eight-year-old Pachauri is also the director of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in New Delhi. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan last year.
Brandeis University is a private research university located in Waltham, Massachusetts.