Annenberg Classroom film explores 8th Amendment ban on ‘cruel and unusual punishment’
Produced in partnership with The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, “The Eighth Amendment: Cruel and Unusual Punishment” is among the over 65 free, nonpartisan short films available to educators, students, and families on Annenberg Classroom in advance of Constitution Day, Sept. 17.
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.
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.
From framework to actions: Provost John L. Jackson Jr. talks Penn Forward
In a Q&A, Provost John L. Jackson Jr. explains the relationship between the strategic framework In Principle and Practice and Penn Forward—a new University-wide process and action plan that will advance Penn forward for the next decade and beyond.
