2008 - present
The Honors Project is a research project for which eligible students apply during their junior year and complete in their senior year. A successfully completed thesis project leads to the awarding of the bachelor of arts degree with the notation "honors," "high honors" or "highest honors" in the student's major subject. Each student is asked to archive his or her project in Smith ScholarWorks for access and preservation.
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Honors Projects and Theses from 2018
Exploring the evolution of Ramsey games, Theodore McCulloch
Putting the "success" in succession : comparing dominant species in a deciduous forest isn't so "clear cut", Madeleine Ann Meadows-McDonnell
Investigating the nature of mutualisms between Rhododendron seedlings and local versus novel communities of ericoid mycorrhizal fungi, Taryn Leigh Mueller
Sedimentary redox geochemistry of the Lower Triassic Montney Formation, British Columbia, Chiza Ngachize Mwinde
American Jewish anti-Zionism : a historical and contemporary analysis, Hunter Rose Myers
Worlds beyond : follow-up observations and confirmation of K2 exoplanet candidates, Rachel Eileen O'Connor
Elucidating testate amoeba biodiversity : an analysis of Hyalosphenia spp, Angela Colleen O'Donnell
"When I need you, I shall send for you" : an analysis of Aksumite and Himyarite authority in an East Roman world, Katherine Ashley O'Hara
"Superheroes aren't born - they're built" : an exploration of the interactions between technology and humanity in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Alexandra Helen Ostrowski Schilling
No, stay : stories, Emma K. Pacchiana
Designing a proxy carbon price strategy for Smith College, Breanna Jane Parker
Ionization spectroscopy of beryllium, Carson O. Patterson
Investigating the long-term effects of human land use on soil chemistry and forest vegetation, Linda A. Patterson
Sources of dissolved constituents in a high arctic glacial meltwater stream, Molly Dennison Peek
Nonsensical language and life without meaning : absurdism in children's literature, Carolyn Jane Polis
Inflating the volume of polyhedra, Syed Zainab Aqdas Rizvi
Modeling of the potential traffic management practices at the Williamsburg Mill River Greenway construction site, Laura Mae Rosenbauer
Practicing class : disjunctures between class position and presentation in gay communities, Emily Hawley Ruppel
The aesthetics of landscape : the poetry and art of place in British romanticism, Natalie Nicole Sandstrom
"Swimming in the border" : a translation and critical analysis of Rikudah Potash's Yiddish prose in Jerusalem, Teddy H.E. Schneider
[Triangle]Scope : a new method to quantify 3D biological structures and identify differences in zebrafish forebrain development, Morgan Sarah Schwartz
The impact of bridge intrusion on the Mill River : hydraulic modelling and analysis using HEC-RAS, Maya Sleiman
Androgenic modulation of foot-flagging behavior in the Bronean rock frog (Staurois parvus), Sarah Smith
Metaphors of disability : disposability, land, and literature, Samantha Calli Stolar
The effect of bumblebee caste on individuals' response to medicinal pollen, Elyse Clarissa Stone
Love song for what my mother is too afraid to call by name : poems, Janelle Tan
Fashioning women : dress and the formation of visual types in the late eighteenth-century English popular print, Kaila K. Temple
A high precision laser refractometer for geological applications, Sophia TenHuisen
Synthesis and thermodynamic analysis of a cisplatin-modified DNA 12-mey, Sheng Tian
Synthesis of an alkyne-conjugated neurolenin derivative for use in biological click-chemistry experiments, Anisha Tyagi
Gene regulation in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, Nhi My Van
Synthesis of protein-polymer conjugates for targeted drug delivery, Analia Jazmin Vázquez Cegla
Precision spectroscopy of beryllium, Alisha Daya Vira
Microgrid design informed by genetic algorithms, Jessica Leigh Wert
Different coasts and different hosts : investigating speciation in the seal lungworm Otostrongylus circumlitus, Kalani Marie Williams
What does your hair smell like? : identifying and modifying hair affinity for volatile molecules, Jinyi Yang
Diagnosis checker : an interactive interface for mitigating diagnostic bias in mental health care, Ji Young Yun
Fossils preserved by iron-bearing minerals in the Lower-Middle Cambrian Carrara formation, Jade Ziqiu Zhang
Honors Projects and Theses from 2017
Designing a photovoltaic array for Smith College, Eleanor Midori Adachi
The chaos axis : redefining worlds and the self in Dishonored, Meredith Bronwyn Agran
The role of gender, sexual trauma and psychopathology in predicting sexual boundary violation risk among psychotherapists, Elena Alexandra Andreopoulos
Synthesis and characterization of PEG-PVDMA hydrogels and core-crosslinked mPeg-block-PVDMA micelles for cancer therapy, Quinn Michael Anex-Ries
Welcome to be here, Julia Hawke Antinozzi
Mark me, Erin Batchelder
Development of a tandem Diels-Alder/Pauson-Khand strategy for the synthesis of tetracycles, Katherine Anne Blackford
Peer social motivation : quantifying differences in species specific social behavior using operant conditioning, Katrina Laurel Blandino
Salivary concentrations of dopamine and other constituents in Parkinson's disease, Noah Daniel Blohm
Effects of Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) decline on forest floor characteristics and macrofungal communities at two sites in western Massachusetts, Aliza M. Boles Fassler
Navigating faith in resistance : religion and spirituality in the politicization of three women activists, Alicia Mae Bowling
The interaction of adult age and executive function on emotion reactivity and recovery following a stressor, Mark Kieran William Britton
Reinventing genre, embracing otherness : queer Latina writers, Jennifer Marie Calabrese
Estimating product composition and thermal dynamics in a continous feed biomass torrefier, Isabella Caitlin Casini
Characterization of hard and soft corals at Mexico Rocks, Belize using underwater and aerial images, Amanda Raquel Castro
Pairwise alignment-free protein sequence clustering, Marina Kristy Cheng
Embryo-environment interactions : how PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) impact craniofacial development, Gina Lee Cho
Ethnographic Design Lab Final Report: How SmithScape Came to Be, Geena Choo, Yoon Roh, and Danyi Zeng
Identity, nation building, and sports : examining the role of national soccer teams in bolstering nationalism in Africa, Eliza Frances Cummings
Dei gratia regina : Anglo-Saxon queenship in Wessex, Liberty J. Dupuis
The nostalgic release : the French culture behind the French food Americans thought they knew, Isabelle Louise Eyman
A broad-based investigation of body size of Sciurus carolinensis in space and time, Isabella Marie Fielding
Investigating the distribution and diversity of rare endemic forest plant species in the eastern United States, Anna Elizabeth George
Design and synthesis of a novel cyclic oxazole pseudopeptide, Katherine Anne Graham-O'Regan
Simulation of excitations in shell Bose-Einstein condensates at finite temperature, Shuyao Gu
Prototyping a transportable demonstration for cut resistance, Christine Mary Hamilton
Microcosm experiments : assessing microbial community responses to food web perturbations, Doris Lizbeth Juarez
Conjugation of engineered proteins to Azlactone-functionalized polymers for drug-delivery applications, Eugenie Amjad Jumai'an
Novel intrinsic quantum designs for quantum cascade superluminescent emitters, Sara Kacmoli
Assessing the ecological relationships between Sphagnum mosses and testate amoebae in a New England peatland, Mallory Rose Kakley
Clocking multifluorescent protein expression in yeast, Emmie Marie Knobloch
Rapid effects of G1 on social behavior and preoptic area isotocin expression in male goldfish, Zoe L.C. Kohler-Boland
HSP25 interactome, Natalie Sarah Kolber
Imaging Bioturbation in Supratidal Carbonates: Non-Invasive Field Techniques Enhance Neoichnological and Zoogeomorphological Research, San Salvador, The Bahamas, Karen Kopcznski, Ilya Buynevich, H. Allen Curran, Jon Caris, and Jonathan Nyquist
Searching for signals of selection in crop genomes, Chloe Taylor Lee
The effects of change in foundational species from Tsuga canadensis to Betula lenta on soil chemistry profiles, Veida Lekakh
Quantifying reward for social partners in two vole species, Sarah Anne Lopez
Banking on metaphors : an analysis of economic metaphors in literature and economics, Evelyn Maria Mandel
Training and injury prevention for the hypermobile dancer : a means to functional and aesthetic mobility and Choreography and analysis of Confluent peripheries, Alison Georgia Marsh
The responsibilities of audiences to speakers : a speech act theory of epistemic violence, Helen Celia Mayer
Guerreras de la cancha : leveling the playing field: exploring the role of government in facilitating equal access to soccer for girls in the United States and Ecuador, Maya Nicole McCann
Locating slow slip events in Cascadia across space and time, Elias Greylin Molitors Bergman
Nanoscale cargo transport of spherical DNA origami structures by ensembles of molecular motor proteins, Jessica Marie Morgan
The role of sex and ovarian cycles in rodent behavioral and physiological variability, Kathleen Jane Moshofsky
The effect of circadian disruption and a high fat diet on arcuate microglia in C57/B6 mice, Donna L. Mosley
The isolation and derivatization of sesquiterpene lactones from Neurolaena lobata, Megan Elizabeth Neubig
Effects of accelerated UV exposure on mechanical properties of natural nylon, technora, and polyester fibers, Thuy Xuan Nguyen
Wideband acoustic imitance measurements and time domain reflectance, Jingping Nie
Engineering protein-drug conjugates for therapeutic targeting of mesothelin-positive tumors, Elsie Akinyi Odhiambo
Before and after : uncovering temporal patterns of biodiversity in microbial communities of tide pools, Abigail Angelina Onos
Rewriting absence : appropriation and identity in the art of Hung Liu, Kehinde Wiley, and Glenn Ligon, Samantha Grace Page
Exploring genome architecture, protein evolution and epigenetic processes in ciliates, Olivia A. Pilling
Queer undertakings : an ethnographic analysis of the funeral industry in transition, Vanessa A. Pius
Allüberall : the textual genesis of Mahler's "Der Abschied", Erin Caroline Pratt
The Countess of Pembroke's Cleopatra : translation and transformation in Mary Sidney's Antonie, Mary Ruth Robinson
Using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) to explore development of the somatic nucleus of the extensive fragmenting ciliate chilodonella uncinata, Anna Jollyette Rogers
Para conocer a Irzubeta : una exploración de la traducción del "aire lingüistico" de Buenos Aires, Sawnie Bertran Smith
Supporting inclusion in early childhood : contextual effects on perceptions of violating in-group preference norms, Suzanne P. Stillinger
Differential potency of cyclohexanol isomers for positive modulation and inhibition of GABAa receptor currents, Varsha Subramaniam