Graduate student Dasha Pruss has been awarded a grant from Pitt's Data & Society program to produce quantitative and qualitative analyses of fairness outcomes when courts in Pennsylvania use A.I. to guide sentencing decisions. Dasha also won the Philosophy of Science Association's Mary B. Hesse Graduate Student Essay Award for her essay "Mechanical Jurisprudence and Domain Distortion: How Predictive Algorithms Warp the Law" published in the January 2022 edition of Philosophy of Science.