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
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.
Three Questions: Judging the National Book Award
James English, John Welsh Centennial Professor of English and Director of the Penn Humanities Forum, chaired the committee that selected the National Book Award winner in fiction last November.
OMNIA Q&A: “I think it's part of our job as scientists to communicate effectively with the public.” (Video)
Physics graduate student Dillion Fox makes outreach part of his work.
OMNIA Q&A: Making a Mockery
Ralph Rosen, Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities, on satire, from ancient Greece to "Saturday Night Live."
A Sustainable Past
Brian Rose Works with Soldiers, Children, and Other Stakeholders to Save Humanity’s Cultural Heritage
Moving Forward at Fels
Nelson Lim, new Fels Executive Director, brings his national think-tank experience to Penn.
You Say You Want a Revolution. Then What?
Teece fellow Doğa Kerestecioğlu, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology, is studying how national revolutions turn into national governments.
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."