VU scientists earn

Vanderbilt University Physicist Andreas Berlind and geneticist Marylyn Ritchie have each won two-year, $50,000 research fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that are intended to encourage promising young scholars. Berlind "collects universes," and Ritchie is a researcher in the Vanderbilt Institute for Human Genetics Research, using informatics and computational methods to study ways to fight disease. The VU release is here.