The Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award recognizes outstanding graduate students in the following areas: Distillation and Absorption; Crystallization and Evaporation; Extraction; Membrane-Based Separations; Adsorption and Ion Exchange; Fluid-Particle Separations; and Bioseparations. To be eligible for this year's awards, the nominees must currently be graduate students or have been graduate students since the last AIChE Annual meeting. Applicants must submit a single paper contributing to separations fundamentals or applications. This paper may be co-authored by others, but the student nominee must have been the primary author. The paper should be of a quality acceptable for publication in journals such as the AIChE Journal or Chemical Engineering Science. A single nomination letter detailing the student's strengths and accomplishments, written by a faculty member, who must be a member of AIChE, is also required. The application and required materials must be submitted to three different persons. Please visit the award's website for more information.