William McKinnon, PhD, professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $262,548 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research titled “Using Topography Data to Constrain Enceladus’ Tectonic and Thermal Evolution.” …

Arye Nehorai, PhD, chair and the Eugene and Martha Lohman Professor of Electrical Engineering, has received a five-year, $800,000 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for research titled “Radar Methods in Urban Environments.” …

Alvaro Pelayo, PhD, assistant professor of mathematics in Arts & Sciences, has received a five-year, $457,736 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Symplectic and Spectral Theory of Integrable Systems” CAREER awards are the National Science Foundation most prestigious award in support of junior faculty. …

D.C. Rao, PhD, director of the Division of Biostatistics, professor of biostatistics, and of biostatistics in genetics and in psychiatry, has received a three-year, $1,026,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for research titled “Gene-Environment Interactions in the Longitudinal Framingham Heart Study.” …

Sanjay J. Swamidass, MD, PhD, instructor in pathology and immunology, has received a nine-month, $99,881 grant from GlaxoSmithKline LLC for research titled “Mining Pubchem to Reposition Drugs.”