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Hey Day 2018
Hey Day 2018

Hey Day 2018

When they graduate next year, students in the Class of 2019 will remember April 26 as the heyday of their college lives. Hey Day is the annual rite of passage for juniors, when they move up the class ranks to become seniors.

Jacquie Posey

Youngsters dream big during visit to Penn
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Six-year-old Shane Flinn helps Penn Vet employee Bridget Stewart train C. Riley at a working dog demonstration at Cohen Hall. trust administration at Penn.

Youngsters dream big during visit to Penn

On Thursday, April 26, the Division of Human Resources at Penn hosted “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.” More than 400 family groups participated in the fun.

Penn Electric Racing gears up for this years’ competition with an innovative new design
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Connor Sendel, co-captain and operations lead for PER, shows Gutmann the chassis of REV4, the electric car for the 2018 competitions, which features an innovative new four-wheel drive design.

Penn Electric Racing gears up for this years’ competition with an innovative new design

Penn Electric Racing, a team of about 60 students at the University of Pennsylvania, design and build electric cars to race in the Formula SAE Electric competition each year.

Ali Sundermier

The human story of coal’s downturn
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The human story of coal’s downturn

A forthcoming report from the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy will offer a range of strategies to directly impact the economic and mental health crisis in coal country.

Student startups on view
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Student startups on view

On Friday, April 27, University students with innovative startups will join with investors for the Penn Wharton Startup Showcase.

Working the core without making a splash
Penn Campus Recreation offered a free floating yoga class as part of its Spring into Wellness Week.

For the second consecutive year, Penn Campus Recreation brought a company called Aqua Vida to Sheerr Pool to run an hour-long floating yoga class—posing and breathing atop paddle boards.

Working the core without making a splash

Yoga requires balance, an engaged core, contorting the body into unusual positions, calculated breathing. Now imagine doing that while floating on a paddle board. That’s what several participants did at Sheerr Pool as part of “Spring into Wellness Week.”

Michele W. Berger