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Class of 2026 prepares for ‘iconic’ year during annual Hey Day

Marking a 109-year-old tradition, Penn third-year students united to celebrate their rise to fourth-year status.

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Fourth-years Ejun Mary Hong and Jack Nicholas Roney were awarded a 2025 President's Engagement Prize to pursue their PIXEL project. The pair will collaborate to bring art mentorship, creative skill-building, and industry networking opportunities to under-resourced high school students in the greater Philadelphia area.

Four headshots of Penn Faculty. Top left tile clockwise: Mark Devlin, Katalin Karikó, E. John Wherry III, and Virginia M.Y. Lee

Richard Garber standing outside in front of concrete panel

Inaya Zaman, Rashmi Acharya, and Imani Nkrumah Ardayfio.

3D visualization showing a reddish-blue tumor mass with internal vasculature, surrounded by blue CAR T cells and small extracellular vesicles against a dark background.


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Richard Garber standing outside in front of concrete panel

headshots of Sean Burkholder and Eva Del Soldato

Panelists at a conference.

A group of students sitting outside on the lawn of College Green.

Thea Kerekes stands in front of Kelly Family Gates at Penn.

museum worker restoring buddhist mural


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Alice Wu, a Yellow Ribbon award recipient graduating from SP2's Master of Social Work program

Hands flipping through copy of Micrographia.

Al Filreis and Nate Silver in discussion on stage.

a burned Shakespeare Folio in a glass box

Rahim Ullah stands in front of a class of students speaking.

Aki Di Sandro standing on a sidewalk in downtown Philadelphia.


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Christina Bartzokis sits outside Penn Carey Law.

Penn Carey Law students in a classroom.

A person’s hands filling out a tax form in pen.

J. Larry Jameson, Erika H. James and Jamie Dinan stand in front of Dinan Hall.

The exterior of Penn’s Huntsman building with a blue sky.

Derek Gibbs poses at the bottom of steps in Huntsman Hall.


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3D visualization showing a reddish-blue tumor mass with internal vasculature, surrounded by blue CAR T cells and small extracellular vesicles against a dark background.

Members of the Penn ATLAS team and others in front of the inner detector at the Large Hadron Collider.

A kettle and pour-over coffee filter full of coffee grounds.

A jar of Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud sits on a table beside a muddy, dirty baseball.

Angela Duckworth lecturing a class with a white board.

Part of the installation of a telescope.


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A Penn engineering student holds up an array of different structures made with a new, 3D-printed material

Tianwei Wu (left) and Liang Feng (right) demonstrating some of the apparatus used to develop the new, light-powered chip.

(From left) Zachary Ives, Zixuan Yi, and Ryan Marcus.

Jason Pastor and another lab worker at Penn’s MEAM lab.

Piotr Lazarek.

Taylor Caputo in Penn’s Venture Lab.


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Four headshots of Penn Faculty. Top left tile clockwise: Mark Devlin, Katalin Karikó, E. John Wherry III, and Virginia M.Y. Lee

Raina Merchant and two staffers in an office looking at a computer at Penn Medicine.

Dental student outside of university building

Gloved hand pouring freeze dried "transgenic" lettuce into a grinder.

Dana Bubka.

A Penn Med student putting a pin in a map on Match Day 2025.


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Students walking under a 2026 balloon banner on Locust Bridge during the Hey Day procession.

Fourth-years Ejun Mary Hong and Jack Nicholas Roney were awarded a 2025 President's Engagement Prize to pursue their PIXEL project. The pair will collaborate to bring art mentorship, creative skill-building, and industry networking opportunities to under-resourced high school students in the greater Philadelphia area.

Inaya Zaman, Rashmi Acharya, and Imani Nkrumah Ardayfio.

Mei Long, Vicki Aquino, and another person unveil the new PAACH mural at the ARCH building.

Runners running on the track at Franklin Field during the Penn Relays.

Campus sky view along Chestnut Street featuring Amy Gutmann Hall and skyline.


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Celeste Wallander.

Amy Gutmann speaking on stage at Perry World House.

Penn students riding bikes over a bridge in Amsterdam.

A climate map showing temperatures and contours.

A panel of speakers seated at Perry World House.

Three people seated at a table discussing the climate.


visibile surface fractures on a planet

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