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
How Is a Cicada Like an Oak Tree? (And Why You Should Care)
Daniel Janzen, DiMaura Professor in Biology, on why cicadas (and wildebeests, salmon, and oak trees) act that way.
OMNIA Q&A: The Long Courtship and Bad Breakup of the U.S. and Iran
John Ghazvinian, Executive Director of the Middle East Center, on his new book, which covers 300 years of U.S.-Iran relations.
The Sounds of Silence
Eugene Lew, Lecturer and Director of Sound and Music Technology in the Department of Music, reflects on a year without live performances.
The World at Our Feet
It’s our tiny oasis in a vast universe, and it’s feeling fragile. Five faculty give us the latest on Earth and its prospects.
Omnia 101: Linguistics
Nicole R. Holliday, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, on the science of what we say and how we say it.
Life in the Screen
Rahul Mukherjee, Dick Wolf Associate Professor of Television and New Media Studies, looks at the big picture of our digital life.
Career Conversations: Entertainment and Media
A panel of alumni experts share advice and predictions.
Biology Grad Student Makes Dance Debut (Video)
Ammon Perkes, GR’20, joined his wife Chloe in a BalletX video about the first 100 days of quarantine.
OMNIA Q&A: Food and Farming During the COVID-19 Crisis
Hannah Kass, who is pursuing a Master of Environmental Studies, examines the U.S. food supply and the challenges farmers are facing.
A Global Cinema Watch-List
Julia Alekseyeva, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, shares her list of the best works of global cinema to watch while you're at home.
Fruit Fly Love Songs
Yun Ding, Assistant Professor of Biology, studies the courtship behavior of fruit flies to learn how genes and brains evolve to change animal behaviors.
The Amish and the Anthropocene
Nicole Welk-Joerger, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History and Sociology of Science, discusses what a technology adopted by the Amish can tell us about climate change and the future.