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Herman Eisen, MD, head of the Department of Molecular Microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine from 1961-73, died Nov. 2, 2014. He was 96.

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.

Harold Blumenfeld, professor emeritus of music in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis — and the first composer to devote extensive attention to the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud — died Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 91.

Former Army Sgt. Mike Pereira lost a little bit of himself after a friend and fellow veteran shot himself. But Pereira found that, through service, veterans could find purpose, community and healing. Today, he serves dying veterans at hospice and, as a University College student at Washington University in St. Louis, conducts rigorous research about veterans who volunteer in their communities. 

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.

​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.

Starting Monday, Nov. 10, utility work on Kingshighway Boulevard will require evening lane closures for about two weeks. The lane closures will begin at 6 p.m. and end at 2 a.m. to minimize disruption to traffic. Contractors will close only one lane at a time, retaining two through lanes.

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.”

The Association of College Unions International has awarded the Danforth University Center the Bernard Pitts Role of the College Union Award in recognition of its DUC Presents series and other outstanding programming.