Professor Andrew A. Gewirth received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1981 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1987. He joined the Illinois faculty in 1988 after postdoctoral work at the University of Texas, Austin. Now Director of the School of Chemical Sciences at the University of Illinois, Professor Gewirth has received a number of awards, including a Presidential Young Investigator Award, an A.P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Department of Energy Outstanding Accomplishment Award in Materials Chemistry, and the University of Illinois University Scholar Award. His work addresses chemistry at interfaces, especially the solid-liquid interface