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Photo credit: Mark Stehle FOREIGN SERVICE: Kamanda, a third-year Penn Law student, is the founder and editor-in-chief of

WHEN?: On display from April 24 to Aug. 2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 S. 36th St.

Four members of the Penn community were recently honored with the distinguished Guggenheim Fellowship, an annual award given by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to accomplished men and women who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or extraordinary creative ability in the arts.

Joshua Plotkin, the Martin Meyerson Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Penn, has been a fan of math since his youth. He majored in math as an undergraduate student at Harvard, studied it as a visiting student at Oxford University and also planned to continue studying it in graduate school.

For more than half a century, the Middle East conflict has been one of the world’s chief foreign policy concerns—a situation that has greatly affected Arabs and Israelis, Christians, Muslims and Jews.

Photo credit: Candace diCarlo For 40 local eighth graders, Penn’s College Day was much more than just a campus tour.

According to Kelly Writers House Director Jessica Lowenthal, the art of writing happens best in a community.

Photo credit: Mark Stehle

John Moore, "A Fine Fall Day," 2008, oil on canvas As a child, John Moore would play in the vacant back lots of factories in Wellston, a working-class neighborhood in St. Louis.