@kwhitehead
Drug delivery scientist, professor, innovator, mother, gardener, SciComm fanatic. TED talk http://bit.ly/3zjICfe. She/her. BLM 🏳️🌈♿️ supporter. Lab: http://whitehead.cheme.cmu.edu Photo: human milk!
Thanks to Alex for hosting me on Bio-techne's Back of the Napkin Podcast. We discuss my science, life as a scientist, what it's like to be a TED speaker, and how strong feelings of anger won me an NIH New Innovator Award. Hope it can be helpful if anyone needs some inspiration.
asking for an image of a professor and asking to make it "more professor", a thread.
All you need is love.
Post-COVID, Carnegie Mellon instituted a fall break in addition to spring break. I have no clue why this has never been a thing before. Was spring break history really just about going to the beach??
Congrats to the amazing Kati Karikó & Drew Weissman on their Nobel Prize for vaccine-enabling mRNA science. I’ve been privileged to work & interact with them.
Brilliance is par for the course when it comes to Nobels; being a good, generous person makes it even more special. 💗
A cut tomato that looks like a demon face
Don’t know if I should add dressing or holy water
Are postdocs trainees?
Girl Scout camp counselor
Receptionist
Florist
I seriously 🔥 my finger today with super glue. Had no idea this was a thing. And the only finger bandages I have are bright Orange. For subtlety.
Death by birthday party.
So glad it’s resonated with you
Came off of sabbatical a few weeks ago. It’s amazing how much faster I work when I have (a lot) more to do.
Cat inside in a toy camping tent
Yay! There are more people here. Hello and good morning, and here is a picture of my cat camping.
I’m always surprised by how much I ❤️ fried pickles.
My partner thinks I’m missing the boat by coming here instead of Threads. I have no clue other than this isn’t Meta.
Yeah there is that new country version, and I’ve been listening to Tracy’s and the other covers on repeat :)
And I had a feeling that I belonged
I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone
And I had a feeling that I belonged
I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone
My doctor has me on a grain free diet for a month. Now I’m eating “pasta” that is actually strips of hearts of palm and questioning all of my life’s decisions.
Yeah, 3 orders of magnitude feels bleak
Never thought I’d be on a boat
If I’m not tweeting, what am I doing. Sky diving? Raining? Sleeting?