Nov|Dec 2016

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Nov|Dec 2016
Volume 115, No. 2

FEATURES

Perry World House
Penn unveils its ambitious global policy center—which, in the run-up to the US presidential election, has wasted no time hosting a Who’s Who in the realm of world affairs. By Trey Popp

Legal Zoom-In
Law professor Regina Austin L’73 loves star-attorney Perry Mason, but the students in her year-long Visual Legal Advocacy seminar are learning to make their cases from behind the camera. By JoAnn Greco

Unconventional
Photographer Arthur Drooker C’76 has trained his lens on American Ruins and Lost Worlds. His new collection, Conventional Wisdom, covers his strangest territory yet.

Hands On History
For the past three decades, the Raab family has been buying and selling rare documents. It’s a uniquely personal way of learning—and teaching—history. By Samuel Hughes

Chasing Miracles
The author wanted to know why the stem-cell treatments that worked so well for her hobbled dog aren’t being used to put the spring back in humans’ steps. Researchers at Penn’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine explained—and shared some of their own, measured, progress toward successful therapies. By Kathryn Levy Feldman

DEPARTMENTS

From the Editor

Letters

First Person: Essays

NOTES FROM THE UNDERGRAD Paris, and the attacks

ALUMNI VOICES The lifeline we needed

ELSEWHERE “Magic is abroad”

EXPERT OPINION Where public-school reformers go wrong

Gazetteer: News & Sports

Political polarization less pronounced than partisans predict

Pennovation Center opening: fabricating the future

Convocation: “Find your comfort zone, and then go beyond it”