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  • Penn honors six alumni including Creative Spirit awardee, author and lawyer Lisa Scottoline

    Dean John Jackson Jr. to receive Faculty Award of Merit
    Alumni awardees for 2018 Award of Merit honors.
    2018 Alumni Award of Merit gala awardees include alumna and award-winning author Lisa Scottoline, pictured at top, who this year’s Creative Spirit Award recipient. Pictured on the bottom row left to right are five other alumni receiving awards: Allan C. Bell, Mitchell J. Blutt, Louis Kozloff, Austin L. Lavin, and Cindy Shmerler Levy, and Dean John Jackson Jr. of the School of Social Policy & Practice, who will accept the Faculty Award of Merit.

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  • A world shaped by water and access
    Three people test water below a sand dam.

    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.

    (Image: Courtesy of Griffin Pitt)

    A world shaped by water and access

    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.

    Oct 8, 2025

    Women’s labor and political agency in Delhi
    Four women street vendors sell shoes and footwear on a Delhi street.

    Four women street vendors sell shoes and footwear on a Delhi street.

    (Image: Kannagi Khanna)

    Women’s labor and political agency in Delhi

    Rashi Sabherwal, a doctoral student in political science, explores how women engage politically in society in informal roles through her research in India.

    Sep 30, 2025