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
Investigating Delays: What Temporal Variation in EPA Action under CERCLA Suggests About Equity, Jane Andrews
Aiding Users in Requirements Analysis Tasks Through Color and Filtering, Yesugen Baatartogtokh
The Role of Forced Migration in Non-Capitalist Accumulation Today, Hannah Beck
DNA-Palladium Conjugates for Targeted Drug Delivery in Biological Systems, Laura Birkart
Combinatorial Approaches for the Synthesis of Protein-Polymer Conjugates (PPC) for Drug Delivery, Ama Boamah
The Role of Cobalt-Complexed Alkynes in the Diels-Alder Reaction, Ashlyn Bohn
Cherry Pie: American Stories of Sexuality and Religion, Amelia Burton
Predictors of Domestic Sex Trafficking Susceptibility in a Nationwide Sample of Women, Betsy Ruth Button
"Supporting local agriculture and feeding people": Farmers’ Markets in Hampden County and Fresh Food for Low-Income Communities, R.C. Ettenger
The Role of Cargo-Motor Connectivity in Transport by Ensembles of Dynein, Hana Hieshima
Effects of Jetlag on Skin Health, Pratima Niroula
Fishnet: a Homecoming, Paige Passantino
Visualizing Spaces of Non-Place in Japanese-Brazilian Film and Television, Emilia Helena Tamayo
Honors Projects and Theses from 2022
The Effect of a Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator on the Developing C2C12 Proteome, Ahlenne Abreu
not only will i stare, Ira Beare
Sexual Dimorphism in the Cranial Shape of Canids, Emily Ann Blackwell
Unusual Genomes: Exploring Genome Architecture in Ciliates and Ploidy Cycles Across the Eukaryotic Tree of Life, Wumei Blanche
Repentance, Redemption, Resurrection: Early Christian Art and Exegesis of The Book of Jonah, Naomi Brill
CRISPR-Mediated Transfection of Brugia malayi in a Co-Culture System, Sohpia Chertock
“Early voting is not good for us”: The Effect of Republican Perceptions of Voter Elasticity on State Voting Laws, Charlotte Cox
Exploring Freshwater Foraminifera Biodiversity in a Local Bog, Tarrin D'Aniello
The Addition of Non-Canonical Amino Acids to Engineered Cancer-Targeting Proteins, Helen Danielson
A Different Kind of Missing, Olivia Davis
The Effect of Black Lives Matter Protests on Arrest Rates: Evidence from Chicago, Carol Xiaomiao Gao
Reelin Signaling: Neurogenesis and Neuropathology, Zoë Gardner
Understudied microbes hiding in plain sight within Nepenthes tropical pitcher plants, Jailene Carolina Gonzalez
Generating Music with Structure Using Self-Similarity as Attention, Sophia Hager
Rapid Effects of Estrogens on Social Approach Behavior and Social Recognition in Male Zebrafish, Rachel Hantz
Macroalgal-Associated Foraminifera in Tide Pools, Rebecca Harrigan
High-Precision Spectroscopy Of Neutral Beryllium-9, Molly Herzog
Comparing Adult and Juvenile Foot-Flagging Behavior in Staurois parvus Frogs with Machine Learning, Christina Hung
Knockdown of Core Clock Genes in Aedes albopictus and Aedes polynesiensis, Sungwoo Hwang
Improving Mutational Signature Detection in Cancer Through Frequentist and Bayesian Hypothesis Testing, Natalia Iannucci
Simulation of a Magneto-optical Trap for Oxygen Atoms, Umeyma Ibrahim
A FUV to NIR Accretion Luminosity Accounting of the Young Brown Dwarf 2M1207A, Lillian Yushu Jiang
The State and the Stateless: What Do We Owe Refugees, Qingle Jin
Optimization of Poly(Pentafluorophenyl Acrylate) Polymer-Drug Conjugates for Targeted Drug Delivery, Macy R. Kasbo
Triple Stars, Emma J. Kerr
Fishing for Anxiety: Determining the Role of the Reelin Signaling Pathway in Regulating Zebrafish Behavior, Diamond Lewis
Work Toward the Synthesis of Strained Heteroatom-Containing Cyclic Alkynes Using an Intramolecular Nicholas Reaction, Halley M. Lin-Jones
Decolonial Liminality: Boundary Crossings in the Novels of Michelle Cliff, Diamond Christina Mark
Aintabtzis in America: an Armenian Community Rebuilt, Alex Martin
Popularizing Mysticism: William James, Carl Jung, and the Development of American Psycho-Spirituality, Grace Mason-Brown
Gravitational Lens Modeling to Inform Studies of Distant Dusty Star-forming Galaxies: A Close Look at J132217, Lilah Mercadante
The Role of Electricity Sector Modeling in Climate Policy Design: A Case Study of Massachusetts, Lucy E. Metz
The Phenomenology of African Women’s Spiritual Futurity in African Futurism, Mosa N. Molapo
Transcriptomic Variability Across an Anemone (Exaiptasia diaphana) Polyp, Joanne Moseley
Genome-Wide Identification of Brugia Malayi Transcription Factor Binding Sites Using ChIP-Seq, Grace Mosley
Synthesis of Nitrogen Containing Neurolenin Derivatives as a Potential Drug Against Lymphatic Filariasis, Monalisa Munia
Determining Conditions for Storage and Release of Road Salt Pollution in a Calcareous Fen: A Hydrological and Geochemical Analysis of Kampoosa Bog, Stockbridge and Lee, MA., Wayne D. H. Ndlovu
Number Theoretic Properties of a Sequence Arising from a Discrete Dynamical System with a Countable Number of Discontinuities, Pham Dan Anh Nguyen
Camera-Penned, User-Generated: Searching for Self in YouTube Video Essays, Clare O'Gara
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