Katelyn Silva is a freelance writer based in Providence who covers a wide range of topics for colleges and universities including Penn Arts & Sciences, Northwestern, Johnson and Wales University, and the University of Chicago.
Katelyn Silva
Hostility Among Friends
Sherelle Ferguson, GR’21, and Annette Lareau, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor in the Social Sciences, find that “hostile ignorance” can come from surprising places.
When Democracy Arrives Undressed
Kira Wang, C’24, spent her summer unveiling how many naked ballots were invalidated in the 2020 General Election in Pennsylvania.
Coming Full Circle
Ami Shah Brown, C’96, works on a DNA-based COVID vaccine, a technology she first witnessed as an undergraduate researcher.
OMNIA Q&A: Shots Fired: The Controversy Surrounding Vaccinations, Then and Now
Robert Aronowitz, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences, reflects on vaccine hesitancy today compared to the past, and the politicization of public health.
OMNIA Q&A: Religious Freedom as a Tool for American Occupation
Jolyon Thomas, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, discusses his award-winning book, Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan.
Unconscious Memory
Damian Pang, Penn LPS Online Certificate in Neuroscience graduate, may have discovered a new type of memory.
OMNIA Q&A: The Winners and Losers in Post-Socialist Europe
Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell Orenstein, professors of Russian and East European Studies, discuss their new book, Taking Stock of Shock.
OMNIA Q&A: The Future of COVID-19
David S. Roos, E. Otis Kendall Professor of Biology, on COVID-19, variants, and vaccines.
Amateur Music-Making in the Early Republic
In a new book, Glenda Goodman, Assistant Professor of Music, probes how hand-copying musical compositions and amateur performance shaped identity and ideas in the post-Revolutionary War period.
Art History in 3-D (Video)
Robyn Barrow, doctoral candidate in history of art, turns centuries-old objects into 3-D models.