B.S., Washington and Lee University (2008)
“Aside from the stipend, the Jefferson Fellowship represented to me a chance to be not just a graduate student in my department, but a real U.Va. scholar, deeply connected to the intellectual life of the University as a whole. I just don’t see academics as an inherently specialized endeavor – knowledge is knowledge, wherever it can be found, and people who seek knowledge benefit from being surrounded by others who find knowledge in a range of different places.”
“A significant advantage to being a Jefferson Fellow in my field was not having to teach my first year. In most programs, it is almost a given that you will teach. This gave me a year to take extra courses, solidify my research interests early on, and actually apply for (and receive) a research grant. While it is true that I could have gone to a more highly ranked program in mathematics, I do not think I would have had these opportunities.”
Research Interests: control theory of partial differential equations.
Advisor: Irena Lasiecka
