Summary
Michele Cooke is a Professor of Geomechanics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with over two decades of academic leadership and a research focus on fault and earthquake mechanics that integrates numerical modeling, scaled laboratory experiments, and geophysical datasets. She has advanced through faculty ranks since the mid-1990s and brings extensive service experience within her department, campus, and professional societies. A committed disability advocate, she co-directs The Mind Hears, a blog supporting deaf and hard-of-hearing academics, reflecting a sustained dedication to accessibility in academia. Her interdisciplinary training (PhD Stanford; MSE Stanford; BSE Princeton) underpins a practical approach to linking theory, experiment, and field observations to better understand earthquake processes.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSE, Geological Engineering, BSE, Geological Engineering at Princeton University
Stuart Country Day School
PhD, Earth and Environmental Sciences, PhD, Earth and Environmental Sciences at Stanford University