The Auburn University Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship (AUJUS) showcases the top research and scholarly accomplishments of Auburn University undergraduate students. It publishes original research from students in any academic discipline. Research Articles and Highlights can be submitted by Auburn University undergraduate researchers at any time and are reviewed by faculty or disciplinary experts. The AUJUS is an interdisciplinary partnership between the Office of Undergraduate Research and the Office of University Writing.
Recently Published Highlights and Articles
College of Liberal Arts
Effects of Accented Speech on Listening Effort and Speech Perception in College Students
Sophia Rosene and Sridhar Krishnamurti
Walton G. Ferguson, William Grunewald, April R. Smith
When Courts Disagree with Clinicians: An Investigation with High-risk Youth
Cameron Tice, Kelli R. Thompson, Kathryn Babbitt
Identifying Single Shift Quality Measures in the Case of Nursing Students
Kelly Moore and Haneen Ali
Disparities of Food Insecure Communities in Montgomery, Alabama
Jordan Branchman and Rebecca Retzlaff
Linear Enamel Hypoplasia in African Enslaved Individuals from Newton Plantation, Barbados
Katie Smith and Kristrina A. Shuler
Maternal Attachment & Family Relations in Court-Involved Youth
Jackie A. Sandell and Kelli R. Thompson
Investigating Invisible Labor in Tabletop Role-Playing Game Actual Play
Olivia J. Price, Emily C. Friedman, Chase A. Bringardner
The Politics of Perception: How the White House Manipulates National Crisis Narratives
Jordan A. Windham, and Matthew Q. Clary
Emotional Regulation and Suicide Risk in Adolescents Adjudicated for Illegal Sexual Offenses
Madeleine Rein, Kelli R. Thompson
Phonological Skills in the Spontaneous Speech of
Children Who Do Not Stutter
Katie E. Wallace, Katelyn G. Gilson, Meghan E. Stinnette, Gregory J. Spray
Linear Enamel Hypoplasia in a Commingled Archaeological Sample From Newton Plantation, Barbados
Katie E. Smith and Dr. Kristrina A. Shuler
An Analysis of the Effects of Dobbs V. Jackson Women’s Health Organization On Voter Turnout
Gabriella LaRocca, and Soren Jordan
Halbert College of Business
Small Business Digitization Before, During and After COVID-19 Pandemic
Audrey Osborne, and Atiya Avery
College of Science and Mathematics
Auburn University Student’s Knowledge about Groundwater
Charlotte A. Jannach and Ann S. Ojeda
Alexis Toney, Kimberly Kartowikromo and Ahmed Hamid
A Biophysical and Biomechanical Study of the Central Rod Domain of Dystrophin
T. R. Sizemore, D. E. B. Gomes, P. S. F. C. Gomes, R. C. Bernardi
Exposure to Counterstereotypical Scientist Role Models Impact How Students Relate to Scientists
Rachel M. Youngblood, Robin A. Costello, Emily P. Driessen, Amelia Rose Radocha, Melissa Kjelvik, Elizabeth Schultheis, Ash Zemenick, Marjorie Weber, Cissy J. Ballen
Expression and Characterization of the Luciferase of Noctiluca scintillans
Sean P. O’Hare and Steven Mansoorabadi
Predicting College Football Commitments Using Statistical and Machine Learning
Davy Walker, Jingyi Zheng and Nedret Billor
Sequencing Sex Chromosome Telomeres to Quantify Degradation in Wild Lizard Population
Brynleigh E. Payne, and Tonia S. Schwartz
Jacob T. Pennington, and Junshan Lin
College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture
Environmental Design and Urban Economics in the Montgomery Peacock Tract
Aubrey Sanders and Robert Sproull
Sensory Spaces: Inclusive Design for All
William Bozeman and Kelly Homan
College of Agriculture
Harrison Estes and Jeffrey Coleman
A Case Study of Crop Insurance Fraud in Alabama
Mary Lindsey Wessel and Ruiqing Miao
Effect of Preservation Method on Nutritive Value of Kudzu Forage
Diva Rigney, Abbigail R. Hines, Courtney Heaton, and W. Brandon Smith
A Study of Climate Change Impact on Alabama Crops
Gracen M. Bridges and Ruiqing Miao
Monitoring TSWV in Alabama Peanut Fields
Lucinda G. McEachin, Alana L. Jacobson, Amanda Strayer-Scherer, Scott H. Graham, Kathleen Martin, Claire A. Cooke, Livleen Kaur, H. L. Campbell, H. B. Miller, C. Parker
Production of Biofuels Through Co-Pyrolysis of Blends of Biomass and Waste Plastics
Ayden J. Kemp and Sushil Adhikari
Charis Harrison, Oluwakemisola Olofintila, Laura Rodriguez and Zachary Noel
J. Wesley Rogers, Brittany L. Hutson, Martha S. Rueda, Jeremiah D. Davis, Joseph L. Purswell, Charles W. Starkey and Jessica D. Starkey
Characterization of a Viral Suppressor of RNA Silencing Encoded by CLRDV-AL
Bailee Kendra Price, Mary Funmilayo Akinyuwa, and Sung-Hwan Kang
Exploiting Genetic Traits of Plant Defense Mechanisms Against Phytoparasitic Nematodes
Benjamin W. Welsh, Simrandeep Kaur, and Sang-Wook Park
Analyzing the Infection Efficiency of CLRDV in G. hirsutum and N. benthamiana by Agroinoculation
Rachel Livingston and Kathleen Martin
Development of Research Tools: In Search of Heifer Fertility Biomarkers
Morgan A. Young, Hector A. Fajardo, and Paul W. Dyce
The optimization of Aphis gossypii rearing and RNA extraction methods
Nicholas Mueller, and Kathleen M. Martin
College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment
Impact of Fire History and Seed Depredation on Seedling Emergence of Four Southeastern Tree Species
Payton N. Brewer, Heather D. Alexander, John L. Willis and Kathleen Gabler
A Global Analysis of the Impacts of Free-raging Dogs on Native Wildlife
Ally E. Cobern, Garrett D. Ake, Patricia J. Hartman, Kylee Z. Dunham, Jean E. Fantle-Lepczyk and Christopher A. Lepczyk
Fabrication of Self-Standing Bio-Based Films Containing Hemicelluloses and Pectin
Evie Pearson, Fatimatu Bello and Maria S. Peresin
Florence Adams, Sydney Brake, Diego Gomez-Maldonado, and Maria S. Peresin
College of Education
Lower Body Power is Related to Hitting Performance in Youth Baseball Athletes
Trent Agee, Nicole Bordelon and Gretchen Oliver
College of Human Sciences
2-Year Student Food Security Module: Cognitive Interviews
Mae Howell, Rita Fiagbor, and Onikia Brown
Virtual Tour of Auburn University’s African American History
Courtney F. Weeks and Robert Bubb
Internalizing Problems and Declines in Academic Achievement: Mechanisms and Protective Factors
Elena Gagliano and Wendy Troop-Gordon
Recruitment in a Pediatric Wellness Initiative, Nourish Wellness
Kendall McCallum and Alicia Powers
Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Evidence-Based Design in a Louisiana Healthcare Facility
Claire Sisson and Taneshia W. Albert
The Lemonade Man: A Children’s Storybook About James Echols
Kalandra L. Blake, Aaliyah Lantigua, and Robert Bubb,
Food Insecurity: What can TikTok reveal about Hunger in the American Condition?
Serena T. Tedesco, Adam J. Book, Mary Katherine Thornton and Margaret L. Tennant
Using Drawing and Representation to Design Nature-Based Infastructure in Coastal Environments
Chase A. Hoytink, and Rob Holmes
Brianna S. Gordon, Allison L. Tidwell, and Mallory Lucier-Greer
Philanthropic Innovations: A Review of the Literature
Reagan Myers and, Peter Weber
Analyzing the Use of Historical Chairs in Modern Media
Alissa L. Johnson, Darby Huber, and Anna Ruth Gatlin, PhD.
College of Nursing
Melissa Freeman and Dr. Pao-Feng Tsai
IBS Symptom Management and Depressive Symptoms in the U.S. Adults
Jane H. Greene, Sarah Lennon, and Andrew D. Frugé
Harrison College of Pharmacy
Functional Genetic Analysis of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Drug Metabolism Genes
Katherine G. Marlow, Abigail Weir, Salsabil Ahmed, Srikanta Kumar Rath, and Amit Kumar Mitra
Learning Molecular and Cell Biology Methods Using Human Cancer Models
Melissa A. Gathman, Razan S. Waliagha, and Amit Kumar Mitra
Determination of Dissolution Profile of Açaí in Simulated Fed and Fasted Intestinal States
Zalaya Haynes, Zarna Raichura, Angela I. Calderón
Understanding the Association of CYP2A6 Gene Variations with Drug Resistance in Prostate Cancer
Katherine G. Marlow, Abigail Weir, Razan Waliagha, and Amit Kumar Mitra
Samuel Ginn College of Engineering
Carolina Amezaga, Mao-Chia Lin, Shatila Sarwar and Xinyu Zhang
Homopolymer Compression: Multiple Alignment in the Face of Homopolymer Errors
Saksham Goel, Drew Beckwith and Dr. Haynes
Control and Path Planning for an Unmanned Ground Vehicle in Simulation
Wesley Lowman, Chad G. Rose, and Vahid Azimi
Python Developed GUI with AI-Aided Object Classification
Jacob Thornton, Toyafel Ovee, Jean- François Louf
Elucidating the Effect of Reactive Oxygen Species on Confined Cell Motility
WC. Keith, F. Hemmati, F. Amiri and P. Mistriotis
Cyrus Lloyd, Nicholas Browning and Jordan Roberts
Gust Interaction of Red- Tailed Hawks
Colin Bamford, Jack Nix, Paul Swiney, Tyson Hedrick and Vrishank Raghav
Implementing a Flexible Event Pipeline to Improve User Experience in Sat-Tycoon
Emily Kimbrell and Daniel Tauritz
Hybrid- Exoskeleton Construction
Joseph Crapet, Ellis Spieler, and Brendon Allen
Cyrus Lloyd, Nicholas Browning and Jordan Roberts
Dylan R. Pollard, Ashraf Ali and Andrew Adamczyk
Jordan N. Clemmons and Symone Alexander
Ryan Wozniak and Bryan S. Beckingham
Adaptation of a Microfluidic Device for Use in Scalable Cell Encapsulation
Ravi Nataraj, Yuan Tian, Mohammadjafar Hashemi, Elizabeth A. Lipke
A Kinematics-based Approach To Future Joint Angle Prediction
Ryan Pollard, David Hollinger, and Michael Zabala
An Investigation of the Sweep Effect on Corrugated Wings at Low Reynolds Numbers
Joshua H. Kacmarzyk, Syed Hassan Raza Shah, and Anwar Ahmed
Validation of a Fast Solvent Evaluation and Selection Model for Extractive Distillation
Toby Crump, Shuang Xu, Mario R. Eden, and Selen Cremaschi
Elise G. Collins, Delaney E. Clouse, and Virginia A. Davis
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