AUCTUS: The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship at VCU

Social Sciences

Sanya Surya
Solutions to Period Poverty in the United States
Mijin Cho
Trauma In Weird Literature: Weird Experiences and Neuropsychiatric Conditions
Abby Lacuesta
Controlling the Home: Material Expressions of Anti-Roma Sentiment
Alexander Burdette
Disability Accommodation and Improving Accessibility in Public Transportation
Apoorva Saravanan
Perceived Discrimination and Loneliness on Health Outcomes in African Americans
Ruby Meyer
Syria as an International War
Angelicia Courteau
Legal Pressure to Attend Substance Abuse Treatment
Natalie Bui
The Humanistic Approach in Japanese Juvenile Training School Programs
Vishnupriya Alavala
Friends in Fiction: Bonding with Fictional Characters from Narratives
Adelaide Verdugo-Thomson
Masculinity, Pornography, and Inceldom: The Use of American Ideals
Anjali Ta
Implicit Racial Bias in Physicians: Racial Disparity in Opioid Prescriptions
Soldiers in a truck
MiJin Cho
Inherited Collective Trauma of World War II South Korean Military “Comfort Women
A collection of comics
Thea Cheuk
Queer Eye for the Hero Guy: Exploring Dick Grayson’s Sexuality
Children carry buckets
Tessa Demarest
Pharmaceutical Industry and Socioeconomic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
A person gets a haircut in a salon
Thea Cheuk
Submission or Subversion: Women with Shaved Hair in Media
Silouhette of a pregnant woman
Marina G. Green
Women’s Decisions about Mental Health Treatment in the Perinatal Period
A landscape in Korea
Brianna Jackson
Confucianism and Korean Dramas
Two people walk holding hands
Rachel Gingrich
Pornography and Committed Relationships
A drawing of a Native American headdress
Marisa Wood
Cultural Appropriation and the Plains’ Indian Headdress
Rosie the Riveter
Dakota Becker
Progression of the Representation of Female Protagonists in Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV
Researcher holding a syringe
Francine Singson
Colonialism’s Role in the Success of the Filipino Skin Whitening Industry
A city street in the rain
Gopika Hari
Depression in Low-Income Adolescents
A hatchet buried in a stump
Alexander Burkard
Homo heidelbergensis: The Tool to Our Success
A person holding a Playstation controller
Usha Raman
Body Image Perception: Adolescent Boys and Avatar Depiction in Video Games
Yellow tennis balls with smiling faces
Shammah N. Okai
Stigma from College Friends on Students Utilizing Mental Health Services
Paints and art supplies
Hirsh Shah
Aftermath of the Hobby Lobby Decision: Implications for Women in the Workforce
A rainbow drawn on pavement
Beau Coggsdale
GSAs and Positive Development for LGBT Youth in High Schools
A cabin and palm tree on a beach
Alexandra Frigerio
The Effect of Hawaii’s Vast Diversity on Racial and Social Prejudices
The Taj Mahal at night
Zachary Hanson
Russia’s Energy Diplomacy in the Baltic States
Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil
Jon Tyktor
Shares of the Great War Effort: Brazil’s Returns from the Second World War
Sheet music on a desk
Christopher Smith
The Last Mile of The Way: Soul Music and the Civil Rights Movement