Omnia Associate Editor Susan Ahlborn has worked as a communications professional in healthcare and academia, and loves learning cool things and writing about them.
Susan Ahlborn
Representing African American Art
Associate Professor of History of Art Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw looks at color and context.
Read Me a Poem
M.Phil. candidate Chris Mustazza is investigating—and making accessible—a lost archive of poets reading their work.
Friends Don’t Let Friends Have Bad Credit
Economics Ph.D. candidate Yanhao Wei is researching the concept of "social credit scoring."
What They Wore
History of Art doctoral candidate Heather Hughes is using the Dreesmann Fellowship at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum to study 17th-century costume prints—and get a head start on curating.
Seeing Red
Image standardization developed by David Brainard will help medical research.
A Greek Drama
Economics Professor Dirk Krueger discusses the Greek fiscal crisis.
Science for Everyone
Physicist Larry Gladney, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor for Faculty Excellence and Associate Dean for the Natural Sciences, talks outreach and the role citizen scientists will play in the future.
“We Are Who We Say We Are”
During Black History Month, we talk with Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, about how one mixed-race family negotiated history.
Want to Be More Mindful? Check Your Phone.
John Tresch, associate professor of history and sociology of science, looks at how mindfulness apps connect—and disconnect—with their Buddhist roots.