Campus & Community

This is the second of two features introducing the University of Pennsylvania’s 2016 President’s Innovation Prize winners.

Dear Benny,I recently learned that the recycling rules on Penn’s campus changed. I know I used to be able to recycle all plastic, including plastic bags. Now, that’s no longer the case. Can you update me on the University’s recycling rules? What about composting?—Sustainable Sam

Commemorating the deaths of legendary writers William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, and celebrating the lives their literary works have led since their passing, the exhibition “The Stage and All the World: Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Early Maps” is on display at Penn Libraries

Late last month, Penn Transit Services debuted a new look for its fleet of bus and shuttle vehicles. The contemporary red-and-blue design crosses over the entire fleet, unifying the brand on the different vehicles that transport passengers to, from, and around campus.

In collaboration with Penn Human Resources, Penn Admissions will host workshops on Tuesday, June 7, for Penn faculty and staff families with high school-aged students to help answer questions about the college search process.

Penn President Amy Gutmann recently announced winners of the 2016 President’s Engagement Prizes and the inaugural President’s Innovation Prizes.

Samara Gray, greenhouse coordinator at the Carolyn Lynch Laboratory greenhouse, cares for flowers and plants.

 Walter “Wally” Masters’ athletic talents on the Quakers baseball and football teams garnered attention on and off campus, leading him to play both sports professionally.  An All-American pitcher for Penn, Masters (front row, third from right) left the University in 1931 to play for Major League Baseball’s Washington Senators.

 In the introductory anthropology class, “Food and Fire,” students’ coursework follows what is essentially the story of human evolution as told through tools of technology. These tools—made from stone, pottery, textiles, and metal—were used by humans’ earliest ancestors to pound, cut, burn, and co