List of things named after Joe Biden explained

This article lists things named after Joe Biden, the 46th and current president of the United States (2021–present). Holding various political offices over the last 50 years, he previously served as a New Castle County councilman in Delaware (1971–1973), a seven-term United States senator (1973–2009), and a two-term vice president under the 44th president, Barack Obama (2009–2017).

Institutions and locations

Educational institutions

• In 2017, Biden established the Biden Institute, a policy center at his alma mater, the University of Delaware.^[1]
• The University of Delaware renamed its public policy school the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy & Administration in 2018.^[2]
• In 2017, the University of Pennsylvania established the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, which is based in Washington, D.C.^[3]

Other facilities

• The Biden Welcome Center, a welcome center along Interstate 95 in Christiana, Delaware, was named after the Biden family in 2018 by a state legislative resolution.^[4]
• Also in 2017, the pool in Brown-Burton-Winchester Park in Wilmington, Delaware was renamed the Joseph R. Biden Jr. Aquatic Center. It had previously been known as the Prices Run Pool, and Biden himself served as the only white lifeguard there in the summer of 1962. Biden has said he took the job at the pool, which is in a predominantly black neighborhood, to try to learn more about the black community.^[5]
• The Joseph R. Biden Jr. Railroad Station, an Amtrak and SEPTA Regional Rail station in Wilmington, Delaware, was renamed in Biden's honor in 2011.^[6]

Streets/highways

• Biden Street in Scranton, Pennsylvania, renamed from Spruce Street in 2021^[7]
• Joe Biden Way, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, renamed from North Washington Avenue in 2020^[8]
• President Biden Expressway in Scranton, Pennsylvania, renamed from Central Scranton Expressway in 2021^[7]

Science

Astronomical object

• The discovery of the minor planet 2012 VP113 was announced in 2014. Because its name includes "VP", which often stands for "Vice President", the astronomers who discovered the planet nicknamed it Biden, after the then-Vice President of the United States.^[9]

Organisms

• Joe the Pigeon, an individual tumbler pigeon from Australia.^[10]
• Syllipsimopodi bideni, a fossil basal species of vampire squid found in Carboniferous Bear Gulch Limestone in Montana, was named "... to celebrate the recently inaugurated (at the time of submission) 46th President of the United States, Joseph R. Biden" by paleontologists Christopher D. Whalen and Neil H. Landman, of the American Museum of Natural History.^[11]

Fiction and the arts

• Joe Biden, a fictional character from The Onion, abstractly parodying Biden
• TrumporBiden2024, a Twitch channel featuring fictionalized versions of Biden and Donald Trump engaging in comedic political debate
• Say it Ain't So, Joe, a chamber opera in two acts by Curtis K. Hughes (inspired by the 2008 United States vice presidential debate)

Other

• In 2017, Cornell University named a flavor of chocolate chip vanilla ice cream Big Red, White, and Biden in Biden's honor. Deanna Simons, academic program coordinator at Cornell Dairy, got the idea after one of her interns told her that Biden loved ice cream. After delivering a speech at Cornell's Convocation that year, Biden tasted the ice cream named after him, which he described as "really good".^[12]

See also

• Presidential memorials in the United States

Notes and References

1. Web site: Long . Colleen . 29 January 2023 . Classified docs probe pushes Biden think tank into spotlight . 2023-02-13 . AP NEWS . en.
2. News: University of Delaware names public policy school after Joe Biden . Read . Zoe . 2018-12-11 . . 2019-12-26 . en-US . 29 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210129122021/https://whyy.org/articles/university-of-delaware-names-public-policy-school-after-joe-biden/ . live .
3. Web site: Vice President Joe Biden to lead the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement . 2017-02-01 . . en . 2019-12-26 . 15 February 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210215070225/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/spotlights/vice-president-joe-biden-lead-penn-biden-center-diplomacy-and-global-engagement . live .
4. News: I-95 Welcome center renamed after Bidens . Peterson . Josephine . 2018-09-17 . . 2019-12-26 . en . 23 November 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201123221722/https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2018/09/17/95-welcome-center-renamed-after-bidens/1335379002/ . live .
5. News: Wilmington names pool after Joe Biden, former lifeguard . Jedra . Christina . 2017-06-26 . Delaware Online . 2019-12-26 . en . 28 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210128070626/https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2017/06/26/wilmington-names-pool-after-joe-biden-former-lifeguard/408917001/ . live .
6. News: 'Amtrak Joe' Biden Gets His Own Train Station . Travers, Karen . ABC News . March 16, 2011 . March 16, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110319050955/http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/03/amtrak-joe-biden-gets-his-own-train-station.html . March 19, 2011 . mdy-all .
7. News: Warner. Andrea. Lane restrictions on I-81 for installation of 'Biden Expressway' signage. PAhomepage. September 29, 2021. September 29, 2021. 30 September 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210930024730/https://www.pahomepage.com/news/lane-restrictions-on-i-81-for-installation-of-biden-expressway-signage/. live.
8. News: Abdalla. Patrick. Joe Biden just got his very own street in Scranton. The Keystone. November 20, 2020. October 5, 2021. 29 November 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201129104843/https://keystonenewsroom.com/story/joe-biden-way-scranton/. live.
9. News: Meet Biden, the Newest Dwarf Planet . Han . Andrew . 2014-03-26 . . 2019-12-26 . en-US . 19 August 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140819141747/http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/deep/meet-biden-the-newest-dwarf-planet-16634090 . live .
10. Web site: Zhuang . Yan . Joe the Pigeon Is Spared the Death Sentence in Australia . The New York Times . 21 January 2021 . 15 January 2021 . 2 July 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220702042112/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/world/australia/joe-pigeon.html . live .
11. Whalen . C. D. . Landman . N. H. . Fossil coleoid cephalopod from the Mississippian Bear Gulch Lagerstätte sheds light on early vampyropod evolution . 2022 . Nature Communications . 13 . 1 . Article no. 1107 . 10.1038/s41467-022-28333-5 . 35260548 . 8904582 . 2022NatCo..13.1107W . free .
12. News: Here's the scoop on the new Joe Biden ice cream flavor . Garretson . Meredith . 2017-05-31 . . 2019-12-26 . en-us . 4 February 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210204145712/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/heres-scoop-new-joe-biden-ice-cream-flavor . live .