Newsmakers

Carol Gilligan Receives Heinz Award

Carol Gilligan, the Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor of Gender Studies at the Graduate School of Education, is among the five recipients being honored this year with the 1997 Heinz Award for individual accomplishment. Gilligan is receiving the award for her "significant and sustained contributions in the Human Condition," specifically, her groundbreaking work on the differing psychological and moral development of the two sexes.

The $250,000 prize is among the largest individual achievement prizes in the world. The award money is for the recipients' unrestricted use. The prize will be presented in a private ceremony in Washington, D.C.

McElheny Appointed Associate Archivist

Robin McElheny, former preservation projects librarian in the University Library, has been appointed associate archivist for programs in the University Archives. In her new position, she has responsibility for University archival records more than 50 years old, reference collections, faculty papers, and programs.

Chandler Recognized for Scholarly Distinction by Historical Association

Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus at the Business School, received the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction last month at the AHA's annual meeting.

Regarded as the world's foremost business historian, whose publications are the seminal works in the field, Chandler taught at the Business School from 1970 to 1989. His first major book, Strategy and Structure (1962) examines four American industrial giants from the 1900s to the 1940s, focusing on the executives who devised the decentralized, multidivisional structure of the large corporation. In the Visible Hand, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1977, Chandler explains how management replaced the invisible hand of market forces in coordinating and allocating economic resources after the coming of the railroads and the telegraph in the 1800s. In Scale and Scope (1990), he compares the evolution of managerial capitalism in the United States, England, and Germany.

He is currently finishing a book on the evolution of high-technology industries.