Front Matter: Cover Page, Table of Contents, and a Letter from the Editors

After a 5 year hiatus since 2016, we are proud to present Volume 11 of the Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Journal. Our mission was to showcase the brilliant work of Vanderbilt students from any discipline and we are thrilled to publish this volume after over a year and a half of work. Despite our infancy as an organization, we were grateful to receive 32 submitted manuscripts this year due to the tireless work from our Publicity committee. In this volume, we are pleased to present papers from the Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, Political Sciences, and Education, with many papers combining methods of study from different fields.