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HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES NewsMakers
Herzlinger Appointed Visiting Professor at University of Edinburgh Regina Herzlinger, Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, has been appointed the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Herzlinger’s research and teaching interests are in management accounting in the public sector and the not-for-profit area. She is the co-author of the text Financial Analysis and Managerial Control in Nonprofit Organisations. She was also named one of the top ten thinkers in health care in the September 1999 issue of Managed Healthcare. During her visit to Edinburgh in December of this year, Herzlinger will present a lecture on the relationship between government and the nonprofit sector. Forman Wins Landscape Award, Australian Fellowship Richard T.T. Forman, PAES Professor of Landscape Ecology at the Graduate School of Design, has been jointly awarded the 1999 Distinguished Scholarship Award of the International Association for Landscape Ecology at its World Congress with leading French ecologist, Michel Gordon. The Assocation cited Forman for scholarly contributions to theory and application over 25 years, authoring two defining books of the field, and sustained commitment to developing international synergisms in lanscape ecology. Forman is also the recipient of the Miegunyah Fellowship of the University of Melbourne, Australia, and in April 1999, he presented the university-wide Miegunyah Lecture. Social Studies Lecturer Schirmer Wins Book Award A book by Jennifer Schirmer, lecturer on social studies, has won the 1999 Human Rights Award from the Program on Root Causes of Human Rights Violations. The work is called The Guatemalan Military Project: A Violence Called Democracy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998; Spanish edition, Social Science Institute [FLACSO] Guatemala, 1999). Schirmer, who is also a visiting lecturer in anthropology and a program associate of Nonviolent Sanctions and Cultural Survival at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, will be honored in a ceremony at the University of Amsterdam on Human Rights Day, Dec. 10. The Netherlands-based interdisciplinary human rights and security research group, Program on Root Causes of Human Rights Violations, works closely with United Nations agencies to analyze the root causes of human rights violations.
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