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 2025
The Golden Rose: A New Adaptation of Calderón’s Life is a Dream, Allison Adams
Age Related Impacts on Structural Magnetic Resonance Image Quality in Individuals with Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), Jacqueline R. Altman
Under the Blue Triangle: the Young Women’s Christian Association, Modern Womanhood, & Body Politics in the Middle East, 1919-1932, Naomi Carpenter
Psychosocial Stressors, Health Behaviors, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Healthy Young Women, Vaishnavi Cherukupalli
Assessing the Role of Retinal Input in Regulating Circadian Liver Rhythms, Nora Deyo
GPR37: A Potential Regulator of Granule Cell Maturation in Hippocampal Neurogenesis, Franchesca Fernandez
Microbial Interactions in the Gut-brain Axis: Potential to Alleviate Dysbiosis and Treat Alzheimer’s Disease, Sofia Guerra
High Precision Spectroscopy of the 2s2p 1P◦ 1 State in Neutral Beryllium-9 inside a Large Magnetic Field, Elinor Kay
Defining Motivations to Collect: How similar are men’s and women’s collecting behavior?, Liberty Lehr
Fragments and Contradictions: The Life of Margaret Storrs Grierson and the Sophia Smith Collection, Roan Lord
I Know What I Saw: Effects of Narrative Overlay on Event Completion and Event Extension, Marielle Maple
Towards a 16S rRNA Sequence Analysis Pipeline: Exploring Statistical Methods for Taxonomic Assignment, Elm Markert
Investigating the Role of Meteorin and Meteorin-like During Spinal Cord Development and Regeneration in Zebrafish, Lillian Mearsheimer
“Only the Form of Females”: The Making of 6th Century Byzantine Holy Women in and Beyond the Desert, Stella Metcalf
Unthought Grounds: A Method of Reading Giorgio Agamben’s Political Ontology, Abby Murphy
Physical Properties of a Low-Dimensional Organic Superconductor, Lily Phillips
Characterizing the Interaction between GPR37 and LRP6 in the Wnt Pathway, Anika Raghavan
Girl Scout Camp Songs as Folk Music Tradition, Tovey Rock
Spatiotemporal Interpolation of Wildfire Smoke-Derived PM2.5 Using Deep Neural Networks, Matilda Slosser
Une nosotres sin límites: la poesía cubana y cubana americana en la redefinición del papel de las mujeres, Ciana Socias
Saint Patrick, Satire, and Survival: Irish Poets Beyond Brehon Law, Amy Vo
Construction of a Blue Neutral Cesium-133 Magneto-Optical Trap, Madison Whitmore
Neural Correlates of Working Memory: Socioeconomic Disparities within Executive Function and the Role of Cognitive Stimulation, Natasha Woon
Two Perceptions of Collectivity, Wantong Wu
Islamic Learning Within and Beyond Sixteenth-Century West Africa: Trans-Regional Intellectual Exchange Through the Journey of Aḥmad b. al-ḥājj Aḥmad (1522-1583), Terra Yuqian Zhang
Harnessing the Power of Superconductors for Energy Storage in Smith’s Geothermal District Heating System, Asmaa Zoheiri
Honors Projects and Theses from 2024
The Role of GPR37 in Glucose Metabolism, Mariam Ahmed
Characterizing the Trafficking of Fibronectin Type III Proteins Bound to 𝛂v𝞫3 Integrin Receptors Across the Blood Brain Barrier in vitro, Sheher-Bano Ahmed
Light Entrainment in Liver Clocks of SCN-Ablated Mice, Kuni Anderson
System Identification with Neural Networks in the Smith College Geothermal Project, Abigail Bowering
The Role of GPR37 in Late Stage Maturation of Granule Cell Neurons, Caroline Burke
Design of a Small-Scale Mechanical Recycling Shredder for a Textile Circular Economy, Bailey Butterworth
The Dead Keep Their Secrets, Sofia M. Catanzaro
Workers, Mothers, and Housewives: Soviet Women’s Equality in Rabotnitsa, 1977-1981, Claire Clusin
Mind and Matter: The Interplay of Interiority and Interiors in Jacob’s Room, Mrs. Dalloway, and To the Lighthouse, Camille McNamee Crossett
Murder at the American Dream: A Creative Exploration of Gendered Capitalism, AI, and the Cold War Nuclear Family, Isabel Cruz
Immunity Gene Knockout of Protein Inhibitor of Activated STAT (PIAS) in Aedes albopictus using CRISPR-Cas9, Jane Dawson
Horse Girls: An Exploration of Obsession, Power, and the Collective “We”, Vivian DeRosa
Modifying Hydrogel Platforms for Translational Medicine: Conjugation of Azlactone Hydrogels with Adhesive Peptides Using Amine Click Reactions, Sophia M. Dhanani
What Has Become of York?: Race Making and Statehood in Washington Territory, 1804-1889, Amelia Dolbeare
Shattering the Imperial Document: Fractured Speech in Contemporary American Experimental Longform Poetry, Emil Douville Beaudoin
Effects of Ear Canal Geometry on Normative Adult Wideband Acoustic Immittance (WAI) Measurements, Jingxin Jessica Feng
Functionalized PPFPA Films for Tunable Surface Wettability, Nell Fisher
Effects of Spanish Grammatical Categories on Gendered Beliefs in Early Childhood, Isabella R. Ford
“A Boy’s Best Friend is His Mother”: $b The Role of Sacrificial Motherhood In Horror Films, Tarryn Gaherty
Faith and Friction: The Influence of CCCU Membership and State Policy on LGBTQ Acceptance at Religious Universities, Jaden Gerard
Self-Exploration in a Non-Dualistic Cosmology: The Roles of Mentors in Guunmong, Ruolin Demi Gong
More Than a Feeling: Aesthetic Emotions and the Cultivation of Moral Sensitivity, Anna Gyorgy
Bridging the Gap Between in vivo and in vitro Modeling for Tissue Engineering: Conjugating Azlactone Hydrogels with Adhesive Peptides Using Photo-Click Reactions, Annabelle Elfi Hendrickson
A Stage of Their Own: Nandan Performers and the Reimagining of Gender, Sexuality, and Social Hierarchy in Republican China, Bailey Hightower
Linear Free Energy Relationships of the Iron- Catalyzed Oxidative α-Amination of Ketones, Nina Hollin
Galaxies of Our Own: A Rediscovery, Grace Huang
Can Miami Corals Beat the Heat? Insights into the Algal Symbiont Assemblages of Highly Resilient ‘Urban Corals’ in Southeast Florida, Lorelei X. Ing
Design of a Chan-Evans-Lam Reaction for Arene C-H Alkylation, Danielle Joubran
“The Battle for the Story:” Spanish Carceral Policy and Frozen Conflict in the Basque Country, Kate Keelan
And Longer than a Century Lasts a Single day: Living and Writing the Repressions in Soviet Central Asia, Gabrielle Klema
Characterizing the Glow of Calcium Flow: cacna1c in Bioelectric Patterning and Neurodevelopment, Mercer Kriese
“Mare Sentiw, Mete de pyew atè”: Contemporary Haitian Conceptualizations of Mothering, Autonomy, and Reproductive Decision-Making, Fhrynée Lambert
Dance and the Radical Imagination: Choreography, Performance, and the Transfer of Embodied Knowledge, Emma Lawrence
Combinatorial Synthesis of Protein-Polymer Conjugates and Protein-Drug Conjugates for Targeted Drug Delivery, Thatcher Lee
Adapting to Survive: The Influence of Environmental Conditions on Uropathogenic E. coli Biofilm Formation, Asmae Lichir
Conversion of Tea Leaf Waste Into Cellulose and Cellulose Acetate in Menstrual Hygiene Product, Ruoxi Li
Electroporation- and Lipofectamine-Mediated Transfection of L3 Brugia malayi Parasites, Shilei Li
Antarctica Foraminifera Biodiversity in an Evolving Climate, Alexi Malecki
The Tiny Survivors: Diversity and Preservation of Early Triassic Ophiuroids (Brittle Stars) of the Western United States, Natalie Morgan
NYC Community Schools and Student Crime Incidents, Parunjodhi Munisamy
Of Two Minds : A Cross-Genre Exploration of Composing and Songwriting: An Album of Original Songs, Kaylee Newbanks
Reframing “climate refugees” by dismantling the racialization of Northern Triangle migrants, Jackie Ochoa Acevedo
Measuring and Modeling the Transport of Engineered Proteins for Targeted Cancer Therapy, Sicheng Pang
Identification of the Reactive Intermediates of the Iron-Catalyzed Oxidative α-Amination of Ketones, Gloria Parrales
Love in the Face of War: Queer (Re)-Imaginings in Vietnamese American Literature, Penelope Hạ Vy Phan
Democratic Backsliding and Anti-LGBT Policies in the American States, Bridget Provost
Finding an Edge: Figure Skating as a Tool for Nationalism, Prestige, and Soft Power, Grace Rade
Understanding Plant Functioning During Drought for Individuals with Variable Carbon Stores, Skarlet Rubi
A Qualitative Study of Acts of Resistance to Perfectionism Amongst Women of Color in the Academy, Margaret Schwartz
Investigating the Role of Meteorin in Early CNS Development of Zebrafish, Shariqa Tasnim Shaila
The Association Between Stress and Menstrual Cycle Status in Premenopausal Women, Tori Shamlian
Investigating the Roles of SCN Status and Physical Contact on Skin Circadian Rhythms: Why sit alone in the dark?, Jadsika Sivaranshan
Stochastic Processes and their Application in Bayesian Statistics, Heng Song
Elucidating genome dynamics underlying complex life cycles in eukaryotes: an analysis of microscopy, transcriptomics, and the literature, Elinor Sterner
Mammalian-Yeast Dynein Chimeras: Design, Construction, and Analysis, Emily Swindell
Required to be Perfect? Expectations for Gifted Black Female Students, Anna Taylor
Relationship Between Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease Risk, Hot Flash Experience, and Habitual Physical Activity in Healthy Perimenopausal People, Tint Tha Ra Wun
Carlos Martiel As/Against the Posthuman: Subaltern Corporeal Realities, Henne Van Campen
Development of DNA Origami Exoskeletons and Cationic Cores Toward Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Targeted Therapeutics, Justine Wagaman
Contentious Politics in China, Jinghan Wang
The Role of Gpr37 in the Developing and Regenerating Retina, Yuqi K. Wang
MS-ESI Analysis of Glyoxal, Methyl Glyoxal, and Hydroxy Acetone - Salt Systems to Model Atmospheric Product Formation, Cecilia Wheeler