Dr. Cole completed her M.A. and Ph.D. in differential geometry at Dartmouth College, and earned a B.S. in mathematics from Yale University.  Before coming to Maritime she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Rice University and taught at Adelphi University.  Her main area of research is the geometry of sub-Riemannian spaces.  Dr. Cole is also a member of the curriculum committee and has played an active role in mathematics curriculum reform on campus (most recently in enhancing Maritime’s Calculus III course).