Research awards and Canada Research Chairs (CRC)

Chancellor’s Chair for Research Excellence

Caitlin Mahy, Psychology: Associate Professor of Psychology Caitlin Mahy studies the development of prospective memory, which is the ability to remember to carry out an action in the future, as well as factors that influence prospective memory performance in early childhood and in aging, and how children project themselves into future scenarios. Her latest research focuses on how procrastination affects children’s thinking about the future and their self-control.

Distinguished Research and Creative Activity Award

Dirk De Clercq, Management: Professor Dirk De Clercq studies entrepreneurship, including personal and organizational characteristics that determine employees’ entrepreneurial work behaviours; opportunities and difficulties entrepreneurial firms encounter when they seek to internationalize or create social value; and how the broader institutional environment stimulates start-up activities, growth-oriented entrepreneurship, and country-level innovation.