evidence: Joseph Biden, Jr., former Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States on Wednesday, January 20, 2021. Penn’s President Amy Gutmann and her husband, Michael Doyle, (pictured above) were in attendance. President Biden was the driving force behind the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, which opened in 2018; he was Penn’s 2013 Commencement speaker, where he was awarded an honorary degree; he began the "Moonshot" to find a cancer cure at Penn Medicine in 2016; and he has headlined and supported many campus events.