Penn Carey Law professor Jasmine E. Harris has been named the recipient of the 2025 John Hope Franklin Prize in the Law & Society Association’s annual awards. She is recognized for exceptional scholarship in the field of Race, Racism, and the Law for “The Political Economy of Conservatorship,” published in the UCLA Law Review.
Griffin Pitt, right, works with two other student researchers to test the conductivity, total dissolved solids, salinity, and temperature of water below a sand dam in Kenya.
Griffin Pitt’s upbringing made her passionate about water access and pollution, and Penn has given her the opportunity to explore these issues back home in North Carolina and abroad.
Rashi Sabherwal, a doctoral student in political science, explores how women engage politically in society in informal roles through her research in India.
Helping robots work together to explore the Moon and Mars
Penn Engineers, NASA, and five other universities tested robotic systems designed to help unmanned explorers cooperate in the dunes of White Sands, New Mexico, paving the way for Moon and Mars exploration.