Fletcher awarded NSF grant
Fletcher awarded NSF grant
- September 17, 2013
- 6th year LPS student wins funds for dissertation research
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Sam Fletcher, a sixth year graduate student in LPS, has been awarded an NSF Doctoral
Dissertation Improvement Grant, worth $11,669. Fletcher's dissertation concerns the
role of the mathematical field of topology in traditional philosophical debates concerning
the relations between different physical theories, such as general relativity and
Newtonian gravitation. The funds will enable Fletcher to travel to the Universities
of Washington and Pittsburgh to discuss his dissertation research with renowned experts
in his field of study. This is Fletcher's second award from the NSF; in 2009, he won
a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, which supported three years of his
graduate studies.
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