Csaba Horváth, who developed one of the most widely used tools of chemical analysis in science and technology, has been named the Roberto C. Goizueta Professor of Chemical Engineering by vote of the Yale Corporation.
Horváth pioneered the development of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) into a major analytical tool shortly after he came to Yale in 1964 as a research associate at the School of Medicine. Used to separate and analyze proteins and nucleic acids, chromatography has been utilized in the treatment of heart attacks and other diseases. He has also helped create new chemical tests to identify differences in the composition of cancer cells and normal cells.
In addition to advancing the evolution of HPLC, Horváth has engaged in research on electrophoretic separation techniques for biological substances as well as on the development of novel processes for ultrapurification of proteins and the separation of complex carbohydrates. He has authored or coauthored more 250 papers, and coauthored the text "An Introduction to Separation Science."
A native of Hungary, Horváth holds a diploma from the Technical University of Budapest and a doctorate from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. In his early years at Yale, he was both a medical school researcher and a lecturer in engineering and applied science, then he became an associate professor of both physical sciences and of engineering and applied science. He earned tenure in 1979, and two years later joined the faculty of the reinstated department of chemical engineering, which he chaired 1987-93. In 1993, he was named the Llewellyn West Jones, Jr. Professor of Chemical Engineering.
Horváth's many honors include the U.S. Senior Scientist Humboldt Award, the M. Tswett Award of the Soviet Union's Academy of Sciences and a National Institutes of Health Merit Award. He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the American Chemical Society, among other organizations.
Menachem Elimelech, a specialist in the physiochemical processes in natural water and in engineered aquatic systems, has joined the Yale faculty as the Llewellyn West Jones, Jr. Professor of Environmental Engineering by vote of the Yale Corporation.
Elimelech comes to Yale from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where he has taught since 1989 in the department of civil and environmental engineering. At Yale, he will develop an academic and research program in environmental engineering.
Specifically, Elimelech's research has focused on the dynamics of colloidal processes in aquatic systems, colloidal transport in porous media, and membrane separations in aquatic systems (reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration and microfilatration). He has been the principal investigator of studies funded by the National Science Foundation, the American Chemical Society, the National Water Research Institute and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, among others. He has written nearly 50 articles and papers, and is the coauthor of "Particle Deposition and Aggregation: Measurement, Modeling and Simulation."
A native of Israel, Elimelech was a captain in the Israeli Air Force 1974-80 before earning a B.S. and M.S. from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. After completing his Ph.D. at The Johns Hopkins University, he joined the UCLA faculty as an assistant professor. He became an associate professor in 1984 and professor in 1997. He served as vice chair of UCLA's civil and environmental engineering department since 1994.
Elimelech received the W.M. Keck Foundation Engineering Teaching Excellence Award in 1994 and received the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1996. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the Association of Environmental Engineering Professors, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Water Works Association, among others.
Donald W.K. Andrews, a specialist in econometric theory and applications, has been appointed the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Economics by vote of the Yale Corporation.
Andrews, a professor of economics at the Cowles Foundation and professor of statistics, has been teaching at Yale since 1982, when he joined the Yale faculty as an assistant professor. He was appointed an associate professor in 1987 and became a full professor the following year.
His other interests include mathematical statistics and probability theory. He has written nearly 50 papers on econometric models and statistical methods. He served 1987-89 and 1990-91 as director of undergraduate studies in the department of economics. In 1987 he was a visiting associate professor at the California Institute of Technology.
Andrews received his B.A. with honors from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He has received numerous grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study econometric models and applications. He was also awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and the MacKenzie King Open Traveling Scholarship from the University of British Columbia. In 1996, he was named the Teacher of the Year in Yale's department of economics.
Andrews is coeditor of Econometric Theory and associate editor of Econometrica. He has been a referee for many scholarly publications in his field, including the International Economic Review and the Journal of Econometrics. He served on the NSF's economics advisory panel 1992-94.
Andrews is a fellow of the Econometric Society and is a member of a number of professional organizations, including the American Economic Association, the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
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