Pozzulo and Abele receive University Research Achievement Awards

France Abele’s proposed research will examine the changing role of federal, Aboriginal, territorial and local states in the northern economy in Canada to understand how public expenditure and natural resource development can be shaped to improve northerners’ capacity to sustain stable healthy local economies in over 100 small, Aboriginal communities of northern Canada.

Joanna Pozzulo’s research will investigate the relation between the recall of an unfamiliar face and the recognition of that face, as a function of age, using an eyewitness paradigm.   The goal is to advance our understanding of how verbal and visual memory are related and how they develop.  The research is critical, as verbal descriptions are relied upon to find suspects in the prosecution of crime  and  mistaken identification is the leading cause of wrongful conviction.