Congratulations to Dr. Nick Corak!
As a North Carolina Teaching Fellow, Nick earned a B.S. in Physics and a B.A. in Mathematics with Teacher Licensure in 2011 from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. After that, he received a M.A.Ed from Wake Forest University in Secondary Science Education. From 2012 to 2018, Nick was a math teacher in the Lyceum Academy of New Hanover High School in Wilmington, NC returning to graduate school at WFU in 2018. He completed my master’s degree in Mathematics from Wake Forest University in 2020, conducting research on a dynamical systems model of tropical cyclogenesis. From 2020 to 2025, Nick conducted research on ecosystem responses to drought and fire as a member of the Lowman Environmental Dynamics Lab, where his research was supported by the North Carolina Sea Grant and North Carolina Space Grant Graduate Research Fellowships. After earning a Ph.D. in Physics this July , Nick will begin a faculty position here at WFU as an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Mathematics. (And if you’re counting, I think that makes Nick Corak a quadruple Deac!)
