Publication Team Layout Editor | Alanna Cronk, COL. ‘23 Cover Design | Layan Shahrour, NHS ‘23 Danya Adams, COL. ‘21 Esther Kang, COL. ‘23 Janis Park, COL. ‘21 Nesreen Shahrour, NHS ‘23 Editorial Team Editor-in-Chief | Danya Adams, COL. ‘21 Executive Editor | Nesreen Shahrour, NHS ‘23 Senior Editors Fadilah Farrin, NHS ‘24 Nicholas Kaliss, COL. ‘21 Grace Khaner, NHS ‘22 Kavya Shah, SFS ‘24 Junior Editors Alexandra Alkhayer, COL. ‘24 Rachel Cherelstein, COL. ‘22 Joy Chung, COL. ‘24 Alexandra Glezer, NHS ‘24 Sylvia Lorenzini, Post-Bac Alexander Missner, COL. ‘21 Faculty Reviewers Thomas Coate, PhD. | GU COL, Dept. of Biology, Neurobiology Ronald Davis, PhD. | GU COL, Dept. of Chemistry Jeffrey Huang, PhD. | GU COL, Dept. of Biology, Neurobiology Kathleen Maguire-Zeiss, PhD. | GUMC, Dept. of Neuroscience Manus Patten, PhD. | GU COL, Dept. of Biology, Environmental Biology Michael Parker, PhD. | GU COL, Assistant Dean Joan Riley, MS | GU NHS, Dept. of Human Science Special Thanks To the GSRJ’s Executive Board and Content Board for their contributions to the publication. To Duke Vertices for their outside of institution peer-review. Acknowledgements 114 Biological and Physical Interactions at Local Ocean Scales: Coupled Systems Determinants of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the United States: Differences in Risk Factor and Geneti The Preventative and Healing Properties of Performing Arts in Female Genital Mutilation Policy Brief: Comparison and Recommendations for State COVID-19 Responses of New Mexico and Utah Interplay of Nicotine and Social Stress Mediate Dopaminergic Neuron Firing in the Ventral Tegmental Evaluating the Efficacy of Targeted Inhibitor Therapeutics for Sonic Hedgehog Medulloblastoma: Signi Refractory Epilepsy: Mechanisms of Pharmacoresistance Table of Contents