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 2023
Combinatorial Approaches for the Synthesis of Protein-Polymer Conjugates (PPC) for Drug Delivery, Ama Boamah
Honors Projects and Theses from 2021
Our great curse : negative partisanship and social polarization in the United States, Molly St. Clair Aber
Gendered impacts of climate change on labor force participation in India, Prachi Adhikari
Constructing assembly scaffolds for viral data in the protein data bank, Sakina Ali
The enduring life of Black art : looming expectations and Freestyle's aesthetics of aliveness, Camille Gallogly Bacon
Describing the geometry of the ear canal from CT scans, Auden Pendar Balouch
Addressing the scientific reproducibility crisis through educational software integration, Audrey Margaret Bertin
Modern art and Yidish literature in interwar Paris : translating Wolf Wieviroka and Chil Aronson, Sarah Faye Biskowitz
Computational and experimental protein engineering for targeted drug delivery, Jessica Bonsu
The impact of weather shocks on employment outcomes : evidence from South Africa, Harriet Margaret Brookes Gray
Analysis and design of a gimbaled thrust model rocket, Halle E. Brown
ACT iCoach for undergraduates with disordered eating : feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary outcomes, Hallie Anne Brown
At the intersection of patriarchy and empire : mothers and daughters in Salt and Document of flames, Quinn Lovely Bulkeley
"You're exactly what I'd expect from the Confesh" : identity and catharsis in a digital space of localized anonymity, Abigail Camille Butera
TimeTracks & TimeTrails, Camille Harker Butterfield
It takes two : symbiont contributions to the sea anemone (Exaiptasia pallida) stress response, Quinton Oliver Celuzza
Life on a shellfish : the diversity and community dynamics of Epizoic foraminifera, Adena Beth Collens
Irish American identity and its fluidity : a study in culture, politics and its evolution, Maeve Brenna Conway
"We shall express our darker purpose" : curious intimacy between audience and antagonists in Shakespeare, Elizabeth Eileen Cronin
Food for thought : an investigation into sortals and object individuation in preverbal infants, Jenna Lea Croteau
Elemental tungsten partitioning in the SE Greenland Archean Thrym Complex, Victoria Eileen Devlin McLoughlin
Machine learning approaches to multi-animal behavioral analysis, Annie Aurora Dobroth
Engineering a cancer vaccine, Yacine Diama Fall
The gendered healthcare wealth gap : examining the correlation between gender bias in healthcare, chronic pain, and the gender wealth gap, Isabel Corbett Fields
Concerning small data : body mass index as a case study of normative implications embedded in data, Dayln Elizabeth Gillentine
Glow with the flow : visualizing bioelectric patterns and their relationship to axis determination in Danio rerio, Elora Celine Greiner
Evaluating redox conditions during the Cambrian SPICE event, western Newfoundland, Canada, Amy Patricia Isabelle Hagen
La medicina narrativa : un confronto fra l'Italia e gli Stati Uniti, Juliet Therese Jarrell
The space in between : bridging borderlands identity and the transgender movement, Sky Karp
Oh shit : centering nonbinary voices in the trans bathroom debate, Sam Krauss
Cool girl : an album of original songs : annotated lyrics, production notes and documentation, Shannon Joy Lambert
Finding distances between quantal states in a chaotic system, Yuxin Lan
Machiavelli's theory of virtue, Juanchu Li
Attention-based handwritten text recognition with spatial transformer networks, Sophie Milan Li
Of the grassland with no boundaries which no fire can burn down : a studio art honors thesis exhibition, Lucy Xiaochuan Liu
Mining the masquerade : Angela Calomiris, queerness, and the Cold War, Ruby Treinen Lowery
"A few good murders" : the case of the golden age "cozy" mystery, Hyla Maddalena
Discerning demographics : biodiversity of testate amoebae based on analyses of single-cell transcriptomes, Clara Rojan Malekshahi
Tentacular thinking : Medusa in and of the Anthropocene, Lilian Rose McCarthy
Historicizing Coming out : a cinematic encounter between national heterosexuality and gay identity in East Germany, Madeline Grace Michels
Bilattices and the logic of goal modeling, Isabel Grace Montesanto
Who is in charge? : exploring the connection between connexin dependent bioelectrics and morphogen signaling during axis determination in zebrafish, Janeth Mora-Martinez
Between a cell and a hard place : mechanisms of shell-building in the Arcellinid testate amoebae, Naomi K. Ostriker
Investigating strike-slip faulting parallel to the Icelandic plate boundary using boundary element models, Anna Elaine Rogers Pearson
Environmental inequality in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region of China, Morgan Corinne Peirce
The Jews of Kippenheim, Germany 1852-1940, Emma Catherine Platte
Fall of the blue wall : a statistical analysis of the 2016 presidential election, Marcelina A. Przespolewska
Social mobilization and pension reform in Chile : Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores No+AFP, Carla Esther Sarai Puentes Hernandez
No questions about it : promising, asking, and negating answers to the wh- questions, Lydia Ysabel Quevedo
How to remember a plague : TV, film and the collective memory of AIDS, Lauren V. Ramos
McDonald's : a case study in corporate responsibility in the age of Black lives matter, Jacqueline Richardson
Light and nutrient stress elicit different responses in clonal anemone (Exaiptasia pallida) lines, Giovanna Sylvia Sabini-Leite
Light and nutrient stress elicit different responses in clonal anemone (Exaiptasia pallida) lines, Giovanna Sylvia Sabini-Leite
Aash Min Shaafak : He, who saw you, lived, Clare Elspeth Sabry
Model of undisturbed ground temperature in Northampton, Massachusetts, Jiwoo Seo
Depicting concubines in inner quarters : the portrayal of marginalized womanhood in south Song China, Yixuan Doris Tang
Differential gene expression of transposable elements in ciliates, Anna Elizabeth Tenerowicz
Dopamine production by gut bacteria and its role in the progression of Parkinson's disease, Arianna Ratih Tidball
Virtue and talent : can women in late Imperial China have both?, Bella Tseeva
Multilingual dreams and exophonic realities : lessons from Tawada Yōko's essay "Capetown" in her story "Cinema of the night", Kerry Linda Walker
Developing a method to determine whether a shell-shaped cold atomic gas is a condensate, Quincy Webb
Transgressions, impermanence, and the humanity within Euripedes' Alcestis, Faith Julianna Marie Wykle
The home music environment for children, Ran Yan
The dream of the moon rocket the glory and the sorrow of belonging to the girls' culture : 1970 to 1990, Sowon Yoon
Escaping escapism : racebending as genre-bending in fanfiction, Katarina Feng Yuan
An investigation of the tolerance principle with two productive rules in child language acquisition, Shengqi Zhong
Perception of Mandarin nasal codas by Shanghainese-Mandarin bilingual listeners, Yanwan Zhu
Honors Projects and Theses from 2020
Creating finely tuned ultrathin polymeric films on silica via pre-functionalization and post-functionalization methods, Elizabeth Awuor Apiche
Modeling variation in brook trout and brown trout seasonal survival under a changing climate, Julia Kreth Barron
The construction of a noise eater using a neural network to stabilize laser power output, Caitlyn Marlowe Battle-McDonald
Constructing the female subject : narrative forms and the illusion of agency in Austen, James, and Wharton, Abigail Grace Bavaria
"Such silent misery, such secret despair" : female suffering and tragic "sensation" in Victorian fiction, Mayrose Carter Beatty
Modelling Parkinson's disease in cultured mouse salivary gland cells, Anna Jacoba Benton
The freaks are coming : bearded women, biopolitcs, and social reproduction in the 19th century freak show, Razi Esther Beresin-Scher
The connection between language and imitation abilities in three and four year olds, Lily Braedenrose Berlstein
The androgenic effects on motor neuron morphology, Andrea Botello
Extremely bright x-ray pulsar breaks all the rules, Alyssa Cassity
Some applications of quantum entanglement to cryptography, Wenqin Chen
Seedlings and photosynthesis : using response curves to inform carbon models, Alonwyn L. Clauser
Tales from our dusty, warped past : lensing environments of Planck-selected submillimeter galaxies observed with Gemini, Olivia Rae Cooper
Useless objects // useful things, Antonia Jane DaSilva
Book lovers and pot-boilers : representations of reading and writing in twentieth-century English feminine middlebrow fiction, Audrey L. Davis
Quantifying circadian disruption in mice with randomized light pulse regimens, Juliane Sophie Donahue Bombosch
Testate amoeba community diversity across space and time in New England bogs, Olivia Katherine Dufour
Ecclesiastical reform and church-and-state relations in Ukraine (1917-1930), Caroline Stephanie Dunbar
Hydrophilic Si(100) with varying typography via post-hydrosilylation functionalization, Yuhui Du
Investigating carceral systems : prisons and immigration detention in the United States, Alexandra Sophia Eleazar
Developing Transmedia Engineering Curricula using Cognitive Tools to Impact Learning and the Development of STEM Identity (RTP), Glenn Ellis, Jeremiah Pina, Rebecca Mazur, Al Rudnitsky, Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Isabel Huff, Sonia Ellis, Crystal M. Ford, Kate Lytton, and Kaia Claire Cormier
No refuge : decline of a northern forest herb, Clintonia borealis, at multiple sites along a broad elevational gradient suggests impacts of recent climate change, Ashley Marie Fishbein
Photomediated post-fabrication modification of azlactone-functionalized gels for the development of stimuli-responsive hydrogel actuators, Emily Ruth Fitzgerald
Characterization of a Brugia malayi POU-homeodomain transcription factor binding to its cognate promoter, McKayla Elizabeth Ford
Authenticity and its attendant myths : a case against the isolated individual, Kendall Futrell
Chan-Lam O-methylation of aliphatic alcohols and phenolic n-heterocycles, Uma Bhagwat Gaffney
"Anticipatory illuminations" : the performance of the Jewish sabbath as queer futurity, Liel C. Green
Coral Gardens Reef, Belize: A Refugium in the Face of Caribbean-Wide Acropora Spp. Coral Decline, Lisa Greer, Tara Clark, Tanner Waggoner, James Busch, Thomas P. Guilderson, Karl Wirth, Jian-xin Zhao, and H. Allen Curran
Fiddler crab burrowing and oil polution alter greenhouse gas fluxes from salt marsh soil, Adrianna K. Grow
"I don't want everyone to vote"¹ : voter disenfranchisement and suppression in the American electorate, Emma Rose Guyette
A long distance interstellar dance : testing the physical association of an extremely-wide substellar companion to a nearby M-dwarf binary, Michaela Susan Guzzetti
Olympic legacy 2016 : the violence of peacekeeping in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Abigail Megan Hanna