Henry Pontell, UC Irvine professor of criminology, law and society, was inducted as a fellow of the American Society of Criminology at the organization’s annual conference in St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 12. The award recognizes major contributions to scholarship in the field, as well as to the career development of other criminologists and organizational activities of ASC. This year, Pontell was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Macau and gave the 17th Distinguished Lecture in the Jing Shi Forum Series at Beijing Normal University. He also delivered the keynote at the Australian-New Zealand Criminology Conference in Canberra in November.