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AUCTUS: The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship

AUCTUS: The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship is student-run and peer-reviewed. AUCTUS accepts submissions from VCU undergraduates in all disciplines. The journal welcomes submissions of research articles, technical papers, expository articles and works of creative scholarship including visual art, music, creative writing, film and multi-media projects. AUCTUS is sponsored by the Honors College and the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.

Social Sciences Social Sciences

Can Student-Built GSAs Provide Positive Development for LGBT Youth in High Schools? A Review of Literature, Beau Coggsdale

Legal Pressure to Attend Substance Abuse Treatment, Angelicia Courteau

Pharmaceutical Industry's Effect on Socioeconomic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa in Relation to Family Planning Accessibility, Tessa Demarest

The Effect of Hawaii’s Vast Diversity on Racial and Social Prejudices, Alexandra Frigerio

Pornography and Committed Relationships: How Pre-existing Factors within a Dyad Change the Effect of Pornography on Heterosexual and Homosexual Couples, Rachel Gingrich

Women’s Decisions about Mental Health Treatment in the Perinatal Period, Marina G. Green

Russia’s Energy Diplomacy in the Baltic States, Zachary Hanson

Depression in Low-Income Adolescents: Guidelines for School-Based Depression Intervention Programs, Gopika Hari

Confuciansim and Korean Dramas: How Cultural and Social Proximity, Hybridization of Modernity and Tradition, and Dissimilar Confucian Trajectories Affect Importation Rates of Korean Broadcasting Programs between Japan and China, Brianna Jackson

Controlling the Home: Material Expressions of Anti-Roma Sentiment, Abby Lacuesta

Syria as an International War, Ruby Meyer

Effects of Perceived Stigma from College Friends on Students Utilizing Mental Health Services, Shammah N. Okai

Body Image Perception: Adolescent Boys and Avatar Depiction in Video Games, Usha Raman

Examining Effects of Perceived Discrimination and Loneliness on Overall Health Outcomes in Black Americans, Apoorva Saravanan

Aftermath of the Hobby Lobby Decision: Implications for Women in the Workforce, Hirsh Shah

Colonialism's Role in the Success of the Filipino Skin Whitening Industry, Francine Singson

The Last Mile of The Way: Soul Music and the Civil Rights Movement, Christopher Smith

Solutions to Period Poverty in the United States, Sanya Surya

Implicit Racial Bias in Physicians: Racial Disparity in Opioid Prescriptions in United States Emergency Departments, Anjali Ta

Shares of the Great War Effort: Brazil’s Returns from the Second World War, Jon Tyktor

Masculinity, Pornography, and Inceldom: The Use of American Ideals of Masculinity and the Consumption of Heterosexual Pornography to Radicalize Young Men into Inceldom, Adelaide Verdugo-Thomson

Cultural Appropriation and the Plains' Indian Headdress, Marisa Wood

STEM STEM

Improving Health Literacy: Parental Medical Decisions Regarding Lower Extremity Amputations, Rebecca Aber

Examining a Link between Paraquat, Alpha-Synuclein Fibrillation and Neurodegeneration: A Review, Nikhil Ailaney

InGaN LEDs for General Lighting: Overcoming Efficiency Droop at High Current Injection, Nicolas Andrade