Susan Ahlborn

Omnia Associate Editor Susan Ahlborn has worked as a communications professional in healthcare and academia, and loves learning cool things and writing about them.

Discovering Her Dreams
The College of Liberal & Professional Studies and a Bread Upon the Waters scholarship jump-started Dean’s Scholar Gabrielle Solair’s goal of helping others.
Words, Film, and Your Brain
Julia Ongchoco, C’23, is studying the difference a word can make—and making films to share her excitement about cognitive sciences.
Summer Reading: Michael Mann
Suggestions for your summer reading list from the Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science.
Three Questions: Working in a Pharmacy During the Pandemic
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shivani Nellore, C’23, W’23, took a job as a pharmacy tech, learning a great deal about medications and humans in the process.
Penn Arts & Sciences 2023 Graduation (Photos)
At three ceremonies, some 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students received their degrees in front of family and friends.
Seeing Disability Differently
Scholars are trying to understand—and change—how the world works for people with disabilities.
Origin Stories: Heather Love (Video)
The Professor of English on school as a stable place during a mobile childhood, her journey to academia via a furniture store, and her joy in discovering the many ways to study literature and work for justice.
Bay Area Alumnae Connect at First PWA Satellite Event
Professionally active Penn Arts & Sciences women came together in San Francisco to catch up and network.
Alumni Weekend With Penn Arts & Sciences
Join us for the 60-Second Slam, School swag, and more.
Why Take Part in a CAMS Event? We Asked Two Alums.
“Sometimes all you need is just that one message or that one interaction with someone to say, okay, I’m not crazy. What I’m thinking is actually doable, and it’s in my reach.” -Tyrone Quarterman, C’17, GR’21
Making Space for Urban Animals
Students in Richard Fadok’s Space/Power/Species course are designing speculative multispecies architecture projects to help share cities with non-human residents.
The Economics of Addiction
Professor of Economics Jeremy Greenwood’s research is uncovering information about the opioid crisis, its effects on the labor shortage, and the law of unintended consequences.