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.
Monuments and Prostitutes
Doctoral student Meg Andrews studies the slums of Rome.
A Q&A With Penn’s Newest Rhodes Scholar
Rutendo Chigora, C’15, talks about her plans and her social venture in Zimbabwe.
What the Bacteria Saw
By using Lyme disease bacteria to research evolution, Assistant Professor of Biology Dustin Brisson is advancing both science and medicine.
Just a Hypocrite?
Associate Professor of Classical Studies Emily Wilson looks at Seneca’s compromises.
The Physics of Patient Care
Penn’s Medical Physics Graduate Program creates physicists who heal.
See Psittacosaurus Run
Graduate student Brandon Hedrick is using statistics to show how dinosaurs looked, moved, and evolved.