AICPA Special Recognition Award goes to diversity advocate.

Bernard J. Milano, a retired partner of KPMG LLP and current president of the KPMG Foundation and KPMG Disaster Relief Fund, has received the AICPA's Special Recognition Award for his work with the KPMG Foundation's PhD Project, which seeks to increase the number of minority faculty members in university business programs. He accepted the award at the annual meeting of the American Accounting Association in Washington, D.C.

During the 1990s, Milano was responsible for his firm's national college recruiting efforts. Recognizing that the profession had too few minority members, Milano, along with his partners on the KPMG Foundation Board, concluded that the most effective way to correct this deficiency was to increase the number...