The 2018 Annual Induction Ceremony and Networking session was hosted on Friday, August 24th, 2018. Dr. Daniel Mears, Stafford Professor of Criminology in the FSU College of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Fellow of the American Society of Criminology was the featured keynote speaker at the event. Dr. Mears spoke about leveraging the role of research on policy and how policy can be used to inform a research agenda.