In a retrospective study done by Raine (et. al, 2002), young adult males who had a conduct disorder were found to have deficits in spatial but not verbal IQ at a very young age. We have been collecting data in putatively-typically developing young children that demonstrates a relationship between spatial acuity and empathy in young children. A relationship between spatial acuity and social functions, such as empathy, is supported by reports of mirror neurons in the parietal cortex (Iacoboni, 2007).

There is an average of 16.8 veteran suicide deaths per day, which is 1.5 times the rate for non-Veteran adults (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 2019). This is a topic that I’m very passionate about because it is something I have experienced first hand. Last year I lost one of my co-workers, who happened to be a veteran, to suicide. It was extremely devastating, and I felt as if it came out of nowhere; I didn’t see the signs.

From 1600 - 1900, "The North Country” (scholar Mary Wingerd's term for the historical broader Minnesota) was a culturally multivalent region containing myriad groups of people who understood the landscape of this region, and their relationship to it, in variegated ways. In order to understand how those ideas of the landscape were given visual and verbal form, I have examined maps, paintings, prints, travel accounts, diaries, and newspaper articles.