January

After the first day of Jake Miller’s new special topics course, a collaboration between Drexel’s Innovation Engine and Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT), many students appeared bewildered.

In early November, Naomi Goldstein was sitting in a room in the grand National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington D.C., providing expert insight on how to evaluate programs designed to reduce crime among youth and adolescents. A psychology professor and director of the Juvenile Justice Research and Reform Lab at Drexel University, Goldstein has spent decades improving outcomes for children who enter the juvenile justice system and finding innovative ways to keep them out of it.