Hannah

(she/her) PhD graduate of the @CohenMechGroup at MIT. Learning from biological tissues, thinking about science policy and 🚴🏻🧗🏻🤸

[Hannah @varnerh]

https://t.co/f0ZrZFc9rT Article here or DM for a copy.

[Hannah @varnerh]

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.

[Hannah @varnerh]

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

[Hannah @varnerh]

dm for details of my (hybrid) defense

[Hannah @varnerh]

I'm pleased to share that the second paper of my PhD has been published in Soft Matter is now available online at https://t.co/wMjrC3jWpb

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*.

[Hannah @varnerh]

The reminder I needed today

[Jen Heemstra @jenheemstra]

No proposal or manuscript is ever perfect, but to be effective, it does eventually need to be finished.

Nothing we submit will ever be as good as it *could* be and just recognizing that can be an important step forward.

Perfection is not the goal. Finished is the goal.

[Hannah @varnerh]

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

[Hannah @varnerh]

@SocietyExpMech women’s empower hour networking success!

[Hannah @varnerh]

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!

[Cohen Mechanics Group @CohenMechGroup]

Happy #GreatAmericanEclipse day from the Cohen Mechanics Group!

[Hannah @varnerh]

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

[Kathryn Bertine @KathrynBertine]

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 https://t.co/aoz1Qu2a1F and drop me a line.

[Carlos M. Portela @CarlosMPortela]

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!

[Cohen Mechanics Group @CohenMechGroup]

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!

[Hannah @varnerh]

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

[Hannah @varnerh]

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

[Hannah @varnerh]

-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.

[Hannah @varnerh]

@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 ;)

[Hannah @varnerh]

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

[Cohen Mechanics Group @CohenMechGroup]

Field trip time! @SocEngScience here we come. @CarlosMPortela, we are adopting your group if you miss the flight. Don’t worry, we will take good care of them 😉