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Planetary scientists at Washington University in St. Louis have received a $279,639, three-year grant from the NASA Mars Fundamental Research Program for a project that seeks to determine how clay minerals formed on Mars and ways they have been altered since then.

​The Washington University Police Department is again helping with the annual Warners’ Warm-Up Coat Drive. Faculty, staff and students can bring new or gently used winter coats to donate to the Police Department in Lien House on the South 40 area of campus through Friday, Nov. 14.

Jacob Solawetz, a sophomore in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, completed a prestigious fellowship during the summer at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service in Washington, D.C. Solawetz is double-majoring in economics and mathematics.

Yoram Rudy, PhD, the Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor of Engineering, has been named visiting professor in computational medicine by the University of Oxford.

Sarah Elgin, PhD, Viktor Hamburger Professor of Arts & Sciences, has received a $625,046 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “Effective Implementation of a Classroom Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE): Testing, Optimizing and Extending a Bioinformatics Project.”

Adrienne Strong, a graduate student studying in sociocultural anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has received Fulbright-Hays-Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program funding.

For Mark Rollins, PhD, professor of philosophy and chair of the Performing Arts Department (PAD), both in Arts & Sciences, a guiding principle throughout his distinguished career at Washington University in St. Louis has been making connections in the search for answers. This principle has proved useful in his administrative work for the university and as an educator and researcher whose focus is on making connections between science and art.

As part of a national effort to predict drug safety and effectiveness, Steven C. George, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue developing an integrated in vitro model of perfused tumor and cardiac tissue.

Josiah Lewis, a graduate student in physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has received a NASA Earth and Space Sciences Fellowship for 2014–15. The fellowship is for research titled “Atom-Probe Studies of the Origins of Meteoritic Nanodiamonds and Silicon Carbide.”

Kurt Thoroughman, PhD, associate professor of biomedical engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, was selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s sixth Frontiers of Engineering Education symposium Oct. 26-29 in Irvine, Calif.