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 2011
An exploration of restricted lactate dehydrogenase subunit association, Samantha Danielle Torquato
Between theory and practice : a case study of women's roles within the Landless Workers Movement : Paus Branco, 25 de Maio settlement, Ceará, Brazill, Elizabeth Ruth Tuttle
Clay-catalyzed natural products synthesis : an investigation of a green organic synthesis of vanillin using montmorillonite clay, Anna Margaret Valentine
"A very threatened and nervous group of people" : public scrutiny of sexuality at Smith College in two historical moments, Ginina Grace Velocci
Structural analysis of Precambrian mylonite zones, Henry's Lake Mountains, southwest Montana and Idaho, Alianora Walker
Harmonic tensions : disciplinary boundaries in Nietzsche and Camus, Sofia Ali Walker
"That's what makes me, me" : portraits of four high school students reveal the importantance of an after-school program, Elizabeth Marie Wallace
International images and stereotypes : applying image theory and the stereotype content model to inter-group relationships among three Latin American countries, Raya Jordan Wall
Art as litany : analyzing Alexej von Jawlensky's work as an Expressionist outsider, Jessica Watson
Screening Jane Eyre : gender and the construction of character on film, Sarah Jean Wisner
Honors Projects and Theses from 2010
Novel method of analysis for DPOAE magnitude and phase, Modupe Florence Adegoke
Modeling traffic congestion in the Accra metropolitan area, Margaret-Avis Naa Akofio-Sowah
The Diels-Alder reaction : synthesis of a cationic dienophile, Stephanie Vivian Aldrin
Power reflectance measurements on infant ears with normal hearing and transient hearing loss, Elizabeth Ann Amadei
Who shot first? : depictions of children in westerns of the 50s to today, Deborah Amandine Asseraf
Defining the cellular and molecular identities of diencephalic astroglia associated with postoptic commissure formation during Zebrafish forebrain development, Sarah Lubna Bashiruddin
The effect of myostatin deficiency on achilles tendon structural and material behavior in male mice, Brianne Kathryn Connizzo
The role of empathy in the development of theory of mind, Heather L. Crawford
Automated writer identification for Syriac scribes, Emma Burnell Dalton
Language ideologies and the politics of language in bilingual Paraguay, Ingrid Nathaly Dávalos López
The occurrence of the bacterium Capnocytophaga in the tooth plague of canines, Sara Kate Dilegge
Cationic Diels-Alder dienophiles stablized by cobalt-complexed alkynes, Rachel Ruth Dorset
Thermodynamic and conformational features of the Spiroiminodihydantoin (Sp) lesion in duplex DNA, Megana Dwarakanath
The design and implementation of an applet to simulate curved space, Stephanie Jeanne Erickson
Performance, politics and patterns :the musical aesthetic in Amiri Baraka's poetry, Susanna Pendleton Flint
Alaska : seven songs for mixed chorus and piano, Victoria Alyce Fraser
Hyporheic flow and heat transport across a bed-to-bank transect of a large regulated river : Colorado River, Austin, Tx, Katelyn Elizabeth Gerecht
Cost effective efficiency improvements of building thermal envelopes, Etta Lauren Grover-Silva
Blood and tongues, Laurie Guerrero-Garces
The elephant man : embodying disability, Elizabeth C. Hacker
Ciliate molecular phylogeny and species concepts, Meaghan Sagar Hall
Retrograde investigations : methods of interpretation in The woman in white and Lady Audley's secret, Molly Powell Hamer
Gramicidin A and cyclic peptides channel conductances in black lipid membranes, Nataliya Herasymova
Disarming bacteria through inhibition of quorum sensing, Leslie Ruth Herndon
Computer experiments for protein flexibility, Diana Jaunzeikare
The consumption of leisure : decoding Travel and leisure magazine and Architectural digest, Meera Ashok Khandkar
Situated desires: the construction of race and sexuality in Filipino migration to South Korea, Dongyoung Kim
Her body, his choice? : comparing men's and women's claims to procreative privacy, Lillian Michaela Lamboy
Writing under the aspect of eternity : making myth in modern Southern literature, Maria Rose Lantz
The adolescent rejection sensitivity scale : psychometric properties and relation to resilience and adaptive functioning, Emilie Lauren Lerner
What should we do with moral offenders? : punishment and moral rehabilitation, Caitlin Anna Liss
Self-help for hoarding : a follow-up study, Sarah Beth Maxner
Galectins and lymphatic filariasis : exploring the role of Brugia malayi galectins in parasite persistence, Margaret Mumbi Mongare
Development of a tandem Diels-Alder/Pauson-Khand strategy for synthesis of tetracycles, Julie Ann Olson
Authoritarianism and Korean attitudes about marriage and interpersonal relationships, Clare Jungho Park
Surpassing loveliness and grace : knitting culture in nineteenth-century New England, Laura Katherine Putnam
A special providence : shifting genre and spiritual growth in Evelyn Waugh's Sword of honour trilogy, Kelsey Lynne Radwilowicz
The Forsterite-Anorthite-Albite system at 5 kb pressure, Kristen Elizabeth Rahilly
Carbon neutrality and transportation : policies for influencing Smith employees' commuting choices, Rosalie Singerman Ray
Computational study of the C-CI bond length, Anna Reznickova
Heat shock protein localization after exercise based on muscle fiber type in mouse biceps brachii, Nicole Christine Rothenheber
Justifying punishment, prison and passion? : preserving injustice through neglected conversations, Maria-Fatima Santos
Knot theory and applications to 3-manifolds, Emma Schlatter
Differential proteome profiling analysis of murine skeletal muscle following a single bout of exercise, Laura Lindsay Smith
The homesteads, Halie Elisabeth Theoharides
Pronoun differentiation in young children : an eyetracker study, Emma Gabrielle Thomas
Alcohol consumption and drinking game participation among high school students : what they think and why they drink, Kathryne C. Van Tyne
Effects of early initial stimulation in cochlear implant recipients : a retrospective study, Abigail Reilly Wilkins
On homometric sets, Jennifer Irene Wise
Lo sviluppo del jazz in Italia, dalle origini agli anni Sessanta, Adriana Emery Wolfe
Sustaining Smith : an environmental history of food at Smith College, 1875-2010, Elisabeth Field Wolfe
Separations at Sinai : boundaries in Exodus 19, Sarah L. Woodbury
Honors Projects and Theses from 2009
From Qawm to ethnicity : politics of representation in contemporary Afghanistan, Shaharzad Akbar
Study of non-minimally coupled inflation of the early universe using phase portraits and Poincaré maps, Amanda Stevie Bergman
La morte e rinascita dell'autrice Elena Ferrante, Echo Bray Bergquist
Automated analysis of electrophoresis gels, Hannah Bier
Allozyme analysis of a contact zone between two mtDNA haplotypes in Desmognathus ocoee (Amphibia: Plethodontidae), Noëlle K. Bittner
The role of motor processes in egocentric mental transformations involving nonbody stimuli, Holly Boyle
A fully-developed womanhood : the collecting of fine art and a woman's education at Smith College, 1875-1910, Emily Clare Casey
Russia and Ukranian denuclearization : foreign policy under Boris Yeltsin, Volha Charnysh
Networked at the intersection : street protest, communications technology and the 2008 Republican National Convention, Candace Clement
Women of promise, lives of distinction : memoir of a low income student and analysis of class culture at Smith College, Kendra Colburn
Race, radicalism, and the wandering Jew : rethinking Emma Goldman, Olivia Grace Cummings
A novel attractant role for the Slit1a ligand during post-optic commissure formation in the developing zebrafish forebrain, Elizabeth Deschene
Site-specific dance : the place it takes, Lila Ann Dodge
The ethics of global climate change : Aristotelian ethics, Lauren M. Donahue
Presidential appointments to the Supreme Court : of bananas, backbones, and dumb sons of bitches, Sarah Dunlap
Et sa morte était Bruges : la femme et l’espace rêvé dans Bruges-la-Morte par Georges Rodenbach, Erica C. Faller
Towards vehicular sustainability : development of environmental impact metrics, Sari Field
Testing the NATREX model : long-run fundamentals and the dynamics of equilbrium real exchange rates, Rebecca Freeman
2D visualizer for the wikipedia database, Christine M. Grascia
"Didn't your mommy tell you that isn't nice?" : patterns and shifts in rape-revenge films, 1973-1998, Katherine L. Gray
The optimization of voltage for a grid-tied photovoltaic system to minimize cost, Kristyn Hall
Children's production and comprehension of definite and indefinite noun phrases in English : an optimality theory analysis, Kaitlyn P. Harrigan
Dense gravity driven 2D granular flow : an investigation of parameters affecting the shear zones, Kelsey Hattam
Le Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville de Diderot dans le débat sur l'"homme naturel" contre la civilisation, Laura Itzkowitz
Genetic diversity of ciliates in near coastal sediment, Hannah K. Jaris
United Nations intervention in the Bosnian War : how a well-intentioned mission had unintended consequences, Melanie Jaskolka
For you : a conceptual theater, Jane B. Jones
Development of models for the study of anesthetic preconditioning using rat pheochromocytoma and mouse neuroblastoma, Sarah Anne Kam
Alice's rules : an examination of structure in Alice in Wonderland, Julia Whaley Kiefer
Joan Didion : the narrative and the frontier ethic, Lillie Kilburn
Bildungsexperimente : Kunst, Krankheit und Karikatur bei E.T.A. Hoffmanns "Kater Murr" und Thomas Manns "Zauberberg", Lyudmyla Kovalenko
TRANScendingFORM, Sarah Kulig
Cloverfield and the monstrosity of postmodernity, Hannah W. Leung
Without language : adult belief reasoning with verbal interference, Yi Lin
"Carriers of the nation" : changes in women's reproductive power in the AIDS era : a case study in Botswana, Katelyn Lucy