Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice Senior Fellow and Academic Director Paul Heaton and former Quattrone Center fellow Amanda Bergold have been awarded $175,000 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their project, “Improving Filler/Suspect Similarity in Eyewitness Lineups Using Facial Recognition Systems.” Their project will examine the use of facial recognition software in eyewitness lineups. Through this work, they expect to develop core insights that can enable law enforcement agencies to create better eyewitness lineups that reduce erroneous identifications, which are a leading contributor to wrongful convictions. Dr. Heaton is an expert on legal and regulatory program and policy evaluation; his research aims to apply methodological insights from economics to inform issues in legal and criminal justice policy. Dr. Bergold, now an assistant professor of criminal justice at Marist College, is a social psychologist who studies how the principles of psychology can be applied to the legal system.