Prof. Csaba Horváth, Chemical Engineering, has 
been awarded the 2001 ACS National Award in 
Separations Science & Technology for "contributions 
to chemistry of national significance." This award 
is sponsored by IBC Advanced Technologies Inc. 
and Millipore Corp. According to Chemical and Engineering 
News, 1/15/01, Prof. Horváth is "an innovator who was 
the first to demonstrate a technology that has become 
a multi-billion-dollar business, has been named the dominant 
analytical technique of the postwar era, and is an 
indispensable foundation of modern biotechnology." 

Prof. Horváth will accept the award and deliver his 
award address before the Division of Industrial & Engineering 
Chemistry at the ACS national meeting in San Diego in April.