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The American Accounting Association has named Robert Libby as the recipient of its Outstanding Educator Award for the Year 2000. Libby is the David A. Thomas Professor of Management at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management. The award, the association's highest honor, recognizes contributions to accounting education from scholarly endeavors, research, teaching and service over a sustained period. It is presented to no more than two people each year. Winners are selected by a panel of about seven accounting educators and practitioners assembled by the association. "The award reflects what Bob's students and colleagues have long known -- that he is a superb teacher as well as researcher," said Robert Swieringa, the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean of the Johnson School. "It is a well-deserved recognition," he commented. "Bob is recognized as one of the leaders, if not the leader, in the behavioral aspects of accounting information," said Thomas R. Dyckman, the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Accounting at the Johnson School and a recipient of the award in 1987. "He has proven himself as a superb teacher at the Johnson School, Chicago and elsewhere, and many of his doctoral students have gone on to do good work." In addition to Libby and Dyckman, two graduates of the Johnson School's Ph.D. program, Robert McGee, now at Northwestern University, and Robert Kaplan, now at Harvard, are past recipients of the AAA's Outstanding Educator Award.

February 24, 2000