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.

Looking at the Invisible Minority
In a new book, English Professor David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han illuminate the lives and struggles of Asian American students over a 20-year period.
“What Can Be Done Today?”
Senior Aminata Sy founded a program for Philly kids and will soon head to Congress to begin her Rangel Graduate Fellowship.
A Classic Hat Trick
In one year, Sheila Murnaghan, Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek, published a translation of Medea and books on the Beat generation and classics for children.
Omnia Podcast: Poetry and the Pulse of Life (Audio)
Taije Silverman, a lecturer in the Department of English, has had poems featured in the Best American Poetry collections for the last two years.
The Death of a Princess
We asked English Professor David Wallace—and his mum—about the death of Princess Diana 20 years ago.
Omnia Podcast: Reducing Lead Exposure (Audio)
A Penn Arts & Sciences grant allows faculty and students to work with impacted communities in Pennsylvania to decrease lead exposure.
She Prints Seashells
Ph.D. candidate Erynn Johnson is using 3-D printing to see how ancient seashells evolved.
Austenworld
English Professor Michael Gamer on why Jane Austen may be more popular than ever, two centuries after her death.
OMNIA Q&A: Making a Mockery
Ralph Rosen, Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities, on satire, from ancient Greece to "Saturday Night Live."