Dr. Ben McCall has won the prestigious 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

The fellowship program provides each fellow with a grant of $50,000 for a two-year period. Fellows are free to pursue whatever lines of inquiry are of most interest to them, and they are permitted to employ fellowship funds in a wide variety of ways to further their research aims.

To read more about the award, visit the News Bureau website, or the website of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.