Campus & Community

Quakers notch a number of noteworthy performances at Penn Relays

The 129th running of the Penn Relays was held Thursday to Saturday at Franklin Field. The three-day extravaganza features nearly 20,000 athletes of all levels.

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Nami Lindquist, Melanie Herbert, and Alex Popescu

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

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.

Group pose of Draw Down the Lightning grants winners.

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


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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

Two ancient mosaics recently unearthed.


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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.

Jessica Mach standing outside with her arm resting on a low brick wall

Marcia Chatelain and Matthew Levendusky headshots


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Penn Carey Law students in a classroom.

A person鈥檚 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鈥檚 Huntsman building with a blue sky.

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

Ayaan Jeraj wears a suit while standing outside 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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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鈥檚 MEAM lab.

Piotr Lazarek.

Taylor Caputo in Penn鈥檚 Venture Lab.

A tree frog in Thailand.


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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.

A laughing gas mask hovering over a patient鈥檚 perspective.

Aerial view of Penn Medicine Doylestown鈥檚 campus.


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

Group pose of Draw Down the Lightning grants winners.

Nami Lindquist, Melanie Herbert, and Alex Popescu

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

Top row: Dennis Discher, Michael Correa-Jones, and Cherie Kagan. Bottom row: Sophie Rosenfeld and Susan Weiss.

Nayyir Newash-Campbell running the 400m.


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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.

People gather around a large map placed on the floor.


visibile surface fractures on a planet

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