Professor Prieve is the Gulf Oil Foundation Professor of Chemical Engineering. He also currently serves as Editor of Colloids and Surfaces A and is the Immediate-Past President of the International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists (IACIS). He joined CMU in 1975 after receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware and a B.S.Ch.E. from the University of Florida in 1970. Prieve has been a visiting professor at Princeton University and the University of Melbourne (Australia), Prof. Prieve is a current or past member of editorial boards including Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, Langmuir, Colloid and Surface Engineering, Colloids and Surfaces A, and Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. He chaired the 2002 Gordon Research Conference on “Chemistry at Interfaces” and co-chaired the 2004 International Electrokinetics Conference (ELKIN).