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Law School clinic defends those in need

Trailblazing Federal Criminal Justice Clinic enables law students to help low-income clients in federal cases


Sarah Galer

How disasters and trauma can affect children's empathy

Prof. Jean Decety co-authors study that measures children's empathy levels after earthquake in China


Time Magazine

Unshakable Humanity: Altruism and Disaster

Prof. Jean Decety and colleagues use natural disaster as natural 'stress test' to examine children's altruism in face of adversity


Benjamin Mays found a voice for civil rights

UChicago alumnus, mentor to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was movement’s intellectual conscience


Jason Kelly

David Axelrod on his move to the University of Chicago

David Axelrod, Team Obama's winning strategist, on ditching the campaign trail for a friendlier milieu: the University of Chicago