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The Daily Pennsylvanian editorial team documented the stories of 2025 — both at Penn and in Philadelphia. In a year filled with athletic victories, on- and off-campus activism, and federal scrutiny, these images capture a pivotal moment in history.
Monday marked Penn's 269th Commencement ceremony, celebrating more than 6,000 graduates from the Class of 2025 across the University's 12 schools. The occasion brought together the entire Penn community, from students and professors to alumni and administrators, for a morning of tradition and reflection. Here’s a look at the ceremony, in photos.
Graduates of the Class of 2025 gathered for the University’s 269th Commencement ceremony on Monday morning, signaling the end of a year marked by mounting pressure on higher education institutions.
From left to right and top to bottom, the individuals receiving honorary degrees at the 2025 Commencement include actress Elizabeth Banks, historian Lonnie Bunch, scholar Barbara Savage, and physicist Lene Hau (Photo from Penn Today).
1996 College graduate and actress Elizabeth Banks will deliver the 269th Commencement address on May 19 (Photo Courtesy of Penn Today).
1996 College graduate and actor Elizabeth Banks, who is also the Class of 2025 Commencement speaker, will receive an honorary doctor of arts degree (Photo by Gage Skidmore | CC BY-SA 2.0).
Get to know 1996 College graduate Elizabeth Banks, the actress and film director who will deliver Penn’s 269th Commencement speech on May 19.
The 269th Commencement ceremony on May 19 will feature four honorary degree recipients, recognizing their contributions in fields ranging from film and television to physics and history.
American actress, director, and producer and 1996 College graduate Elizabeth Banks will deliver Penn’s Commencement speech for the Class of 2025.
1996 College graduate and actor Elizabeth Banks will be the Class of 2025 Commencement speaker (Photo by Gage Skidmore | CC BY-SA 2.0).
Another day, another front page news story for the University of Pennsylvania: “What to know about Elizabeth Magill, the Penn president who resigned.”
2013 Wharton graduate Charlie Javice, who founded the startup Frank, is being sued by JP Morgan.
The Philadelphia Eagles may have stopped playing at Penn’s own Franklin Field in 1970, but in the mid-2000s, the team sort of returned to its old stomping grounds.
In the history-making 2020 presidential election, both presidential nominees had strong ties to the University, with President-elect Joe Biden previously serving as a Presidential Professor of Practice and President Donald Trump as a 1968 graduate of the Wharton School.
“Uncertainty” and “unprecedented” are the buzzwords of the past months. As the Penn community contemplates the fall semester, we realize that COVID-19 is not a brief disruption. Instead, this time of crisis is here to stay for at least one more semester, quite possibly longer. The effects of such non-normal levels of threat and exhaustion touch each individual in highly personal ways, and they are also experienced on a sliding scale of privilege.
Sooner rather than later, Penn students may see their athlete classmates in advertisements on social media and around the city of Philadelphia.
Penn students are long awaiting an email from President Amy Gutmann announcing the University’s official decision for the upcoming academic year. The latest email, sent on May 21, details four major scenarios in consideration. All four scenarios consider some extent of online classes, and thus, it is clear that the 2020-2021 academic year will not be like any other academic year before.
The Class of 2020's junior year at Penn saw a record-breaking turnout at the 2018 midterm elections and the emergence of an admissions scandal that took the nation by storm in spring 2019.
As Joe Biden emerged from Super Tuesday as the Democratic presidential primary frontrunner, on-campus political groups began preparing for a brutal competition between the former Penn Presidential Professor of Practice and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
Despite waning membership, Penn for Pete will continue supporting 2020's youngest presidential candidate, former Mayor of South Bend, Ind. Pete Buttigieg, as the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucus approaches.
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