Patrick is a 2008 Project NExT Fellow of the MAA and, while at the State University of New York at Geneseo, he received the 2015 Henry L. Alder Award presented by the MAA. Patrick has done research in number theory and matrix analysis. For his work on bridging the gap between research and the classroom he was awarded by the Council on Undergraduate Research’s Math-Computer Science division with an inagural Faculty Mentoring Award for Outstanding Mentoring of Undergraduate Students in Research.