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.
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.”
Harold Dibble and his team research how humans might have made stone tools and flakes, from as far back as 2 million years ago to as recently as 10,000 years ago.
When ancient technology and high-tech robots intersect
In one Penn lab, a stone-sculpting machine is helping archaeologists solve long-held mysteries of very old tools.
Wharton senior Anye Wanki plays with his mentee Caleb Devastey during recess at Powel Elementary School.
Mentorship program introduces students of color to their Ivy League contemporaries
The HERstory/HIStory mentors from Penn’s W. E. B. Du Bois College House offer advice, wisdom, and friendship to local second-, third-, and fourth-graders.
Penn President Amy Gutmann celebrated the University graduates of the Class of 2017, along with family, friends, the academic community, alumni, and Commencement speaker Cory Booker, Democratic U.S. Senator for New Jersey.
Hey Day, a beloved tradition that is unique to Penn, was first held in 1916.
Hey Day 2017
At the annual tradition that marks the official passage of the junior class to senior status, participants joyfully marched down Locust Walk to College Green, holding bamboo canes and donning Styrofoam hats.
