[1] She completed her Ph.D. in 1982 at the University of California, San Diego.
Her dissertation, Selberg's Trace Formula and Units in Higher Degree Number Fields, concerned number theory and was supervised by Audrey Terras.
[2] Wallace is the author or co-author of books including: With art curator Kathy Hart, Wallace co-curated the exhibit "Visual Proof: the Experience of Mathematics in Art" at Dartmouth's Hood Museum of Art in 1999.
[4] With mathematics colleague Marcia Groszek and performance artist Josh Kornbluth, Wallace has also helped write and produce a sequence of educational videos about mathematics.
[5] Wallace was named New Hampshire CASE Professor of the Year in 2000.