In mid-October, nine members of RSO Lambda Alpha Epsilon, a national criminal justice academic fraternity, went to the 2017 Southwestern Association of Criminal Justice annual meeting with their adviser Lauren Copley Sabon.

In addition to learning about research conducted across the region by criminal justice scholars, several students presented their research and participated in the crime scene investigation competition. One of the LAE crime-scene investigation teams brought home third place overall for the second year in a row.

Several J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences students also presented their research, including: 

• Sam Thomas, a graduate student in the Deparment of Sociology and Criminal Justice Department, presented his master's thesis research titled, "Prison Release, Religious Contexts, and Recidivism"
• Whitney Frierson and Shelby Clark, also graduate students in the department, presented research conducted in conjunction with the Returning Home Center in Springdale titled, "A Case Study of Local Re-entry Needs and Programming"
• Shelby Clark and Sociology and Criminal Justice undergraduate student Alison Keeling presented findings from a research-focused service-learning course under Mindy Bradley and Megan Handley titled, "Student-Led Community Intervention and Project B.R.A.V.E."
• Katelynn Sigrist, an undergraduate in the Department of Political Science, presented her work with the Juvenile Justice Improvement Project in NWA titled, "Asset Mapping for Juvenile Justice"

All of the presenters received an excellent reception and feedback on their work.