Awards,STEM Educationmath08/07/2024Wake receives NSF CAREER Award Preston Wake has won an NSF CAREER Award for "quantifying congruences between modular forms”
  • Preston Wake, an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, has received a Faculty Early Career Development, or CAREER, Award from the National Science Foundation.
  • The award recognizes Wake’s research on algebraic number theory and dedication to math education at Michigan State University.
  • “Many students in my undergraduate classes aren't going to be math professors and have no interest in that. But for all of them, learning how to do computational number theory can teach them valuable transferable skills,” Wake said.
Lynn WaldsmithPreston Wake draws a graph on a whiteboard.