Hannah

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Seeing another piece of my PhD in print is a nice reminder of how much work I put in over the last few years. As always, I couldn't have done it alone and this paper was a group effort with so many wonderful lab mates in the @CohenMechGroup

Chapter 3 of my thesis is now published in @SocietyExpMech! Quantifying how the mechanical properties of tissues change over time & with disease progression is instrumental for understanding health. We observed variations in stiffness & fracture in gelatin & liver using VCCE.

dm for details of my (hybrid) defense

I'm pleased to share that the second paper of my PhD has been published in Soft Matter is now available online at lnkd.in/e_CcEbbB If you'd like to see me present this, and the rest of my work from the @CohenMechGroup, I will be defending my thesis *this Wednesday*.

The reminder I needed today

That’s a wrap! @SocietyExpMech presentation complete. A great conference with excellent conversations, as always!

@SocietyExpMech women’s empower hour networking success!

The @SocietyExpMech 2024 Annual Conference is almost here! I'm especially excited about the new Empower Hour networking event that I helped to organize happening on Wednesday evening. Women in the SEM community, check your email for details and see you there!

Happy #GreatAmericanEclipse day from the Cohen Mechanics Group!

Every time I get a flier in the mail I check to see if I know anyone on it. Today I did. It was me 😅. Consider this your registration reminder for @SocietyExpMech annual 2024! Looking forward to June

Huge thanks to @MIT, @mitcyclingteam & @B2C2Cycling for bringing me to Boston/Cambridge to tell the story of STAND & creating change in this big, weird world. Moral: If I can, you can. So let’s do it, yo. Indiana, coming your way in April. Are you part of a company or university in need of a keynote speaker about diversity, inclusion, empowerment & inspiration? Well, head on over to kathrynbertine.com and drop me a line.

Successful end to @SocEngScience #SES2023 with this growing Solid mechanics family @MITMechE. Great presentations all around and fun interactions with colleagues in our mechanics community!

And that’s a wrap. @SocEngScience 2023 finished up today. We thoroughly enjoyed connecting with so many colleagues and friends this week. See everyone again soon!

And finally: Breaks without snacks and coffee should be banned forever.

-Why is the conference background lighting color of choice purple? -When presenting images of stained cells, can we all agree to invert our colors? Red on black is not a functional color scheme on a projector. Wearing my @MITCommLab fellow hat here and I am dying.

Last day of @SocEngScience 2023 musings include… -Engineering science is hard and I am so impressed with all of us plugging away at various stages of this journey -Growing an academic community is hard but finally feel like I have “conference friends” s/o Estrada & Franck labs

@SocEngScience 2024 kids table. Documenting this for Joseph so that someday one of us can use this at the start of a Medalist lecture talking about the “good old days” with our mechanics friends from grad school ;)

Taking the photo means you don’t have to be in it😁