Campus & Community

Larry A. Silver, Farquhar Professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar for the 2015-2016 academic year.

Barely one minute into his Penn Lightbulb Café talk on “The Anatomy of Violence,” University of Pennsylvania professor Adrian Raine pointed to a slide projected on the screen behind him that showed the cracked skull of a 19th–century railroad worker Phineas Gage, alongside a sepia-colored image of the maimed man.

A West African proverb, borrowed by then-First Lady Hillary Clinton for the title of her 1996 book on how a community impacts a child’s wellbeing, says, “It takes a village to raise a child.” Children are not islands, and cannot thrive in isolation. A collective societal effort is required for them to reach their full potential.

Dear Benny,

DUNDER MIFFLIN: A junior from Scranton, Pa., Tom Maier is a member of Simply Chaos, Penn’s only stand-up comedy group, which has around a dozen members. Undeclared but leaning toward a major in economics, Maier has been involved with Simply Chaos since his sophomore year.

It provides a home base for that much-needed break in a busy school day, Yen-Yen Gao says, when describing the Pan-Asian American Community House (PAACH).

Throughout most of Philadelphia, Locust Street is open to vehicle traffic, but on Penn’s campus, the path is a landscaped walkway that is open to pedestrians and after-hour bikes.

Late last month, several Penn employees were honored for their commitment to an environmentally friendly purchasing initiative.

Penn’s Way, the University and Penn Medicine’s workplace charitable giving campaign, started earlier this month and is running through Friday, Nov. 20.

Members of the campus community who have old prescription glasses, readers, or sunglasses they no longer need can put them to good use by dropping them off at one of several campus locations.