This issue of Royal Road includes essays composed during the 2022-2023 academic year. Students completed revisions with a faculty mentor throughout 2023-2024.

Editors' Introduction
Alice DeCoteau and Anika Schmid 

“More Damaging than a Scalpel”: Scientific Literacy and the Moderation of Psychological Distress from Susceptibility Genetic Testing
Lilliana Haight

The Death of the Carbon Tax: How Political Short-Termism Sabotages Climate Progress
Logan Cooper

AI’s Role in the Future of Education: The Potential and Ethical Danger of Implementing Learner-, System-, and Teacher-Facing Programs
Gabriel Mudd

This issue of Royal Road includes essays composed during the 2021-2022 academic year. Students completed revisions with a faculty mentor throughout 2022-2023.

Editors' Introduction
Anika Schmid, Cassie Disharoon, and Charlotte Salowe

Human Germline Genetic Engineering: The Ethical Imperative in Due Time
Emma Sheehan

Beyond Baby Blues: Systemic Failures in Maternal Care
Alice DeCoteau

Animal Companionship for Children with ASD: The Physiological, Psychological, and Socio-Emotional Benefits
Faviola N. Collazo-Vélez

“Finance Is a Gun”: Capitalism and the Gangster Film
Marin Burke

Selling Masculinity: The Perpetuation of Fragile Masculinity in Advertising
Madeleine Bolivar Ortiz

Sustainable Subterfuge: How Greenwashing Hinders the Ability of Consumers to Choose Environmentally Sustainable Companies
Ashlyn Ellison

Is Florida Taking Sea Level Rise Seriously?
Destin Rothe

This issue of Royal Road includes essays composed during the 2020-2021 academic year. Students completed revisions with a faculty mentor throughout 2021-2022.

Editors' Introduction
Taylor Landau and Megan Merola

Police Corruption and the Targeting of Central Asian Immigrants in Russia
Ekaterina D. Baricheva

Exploring Homosexuality Within Catholicism
Karolyn Merch

Managing the Medical Field: The Detrimental Impact COVID-19 has had on Healthcare Organizations and Physicians
Caitlin Reeves

The Linear Production of Plastic and the Unintended Consequences it Poses to the Flow of Nature in Tampa Bay
Amber Furce

The Benefits of Culling, Consuming, and Banning Live Imports as Methods of Controlling Lionfish Populations
Jacqueline Wilson

Cape Town Tap Runs Dry: Government's Willful Ignorance Exacerbates the Problem
Rayana Goodner

The High Price of Over-The-Counter Antiperspirants
Isabella High

Evolutionary Pressures Exerted on the Hammerhead Shark Cranium: The Advantages of Varying Cephalofoil Sizes Based on Habitat
Sam Johnson

This issue of Royal Road includes essays composed during the 2019-2020 academic year. Students completed revisions with a faculty mentor throughout 2020-2021.

Editors' Introduction
Celina Rodriguez Rivera and Maggie Sperry

Mickey's New Identity: How Disney's Theme Parks Successfully Arrived in China
Olivia Reeber

MAOA Genetics in the Courtroom: The Last Legacy of State v. Waldroup
Taylor Aiello

Tissue Paper Houses Just Don't Cut It: Addressing Gentrification, Housing Discrimination, and Institutionalized Racism in Portland, Oregon
Madeline McCarthy

It's (Not) Only a Joke: The Changing Face of Sexist Humor in M*A*S*H
Alise Blūma

From Paradise to Punchline: How the Media Has
Shaped Public Perception of Florida
Haley Ruggles

The Imagined National Identity of The North and South During the Civil War, as Expressed Through War Songs
Alexander S. Valentonis

This issue of Royal Road includes essays composed during the 2018-2019 academic year. Students completed revisions during the fall semester of 2019.

Editor's Introduction
David Reamer

Connecting the Dots: Strengthening the Communication between Researchers, Community Members, and Policy Makers in the Florida Reef Tract
Katie Sturmer

Global Financial Marketplaces: The Battleground for Counterterrorism in the 21st Century
Bryce Shepherd

“Arrrr! To hell with convention!”: Unpacking the Appeal of Pirates in Tampa’s Gasparilla Festival
Krista Davis