Nate teaches three courses each semester and remains active in research and other scholarly activities. After graduating from Grand Valley in 2006 with a mathematics major and statistics minor, Nate completed an MSc in mathematics (2008), an MSc in statistics (2009), and a PhD in mathematics (2011) from Colorado State University. The skill that Nate developed as an undergraduate at GVSU that has been most valuable to him was the ability to investigate and then formulate (in mathematical terms) a broad range of problems from different applications. The subsequent ability to solve such a problem from various viewpoints and communicate the findings to interested non-mathematicians was a skill that Nate honed during graduate school.