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 2012

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Accuracy of DNA pairing by the RecA protein : proof of concept for a RecA gene chip, Julea Michelle Vlassakis

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The history of Smith College's dual degree programs in liberal arts and engineering, Heidi Katharine Waugh

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The art market for the hottest Chinese contemporary artists : a hedonic approach, Kailin Weng

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An environmentally friendly synthetic approach : making vanillin from colored clay, Lexiaochuan Wen

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The impact of Smith College on the Hampshire County economy, Kaitlyn E. Willcoxon

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"Senseless dreams?" : the self-presentation of Nicholas II in image and word, 1904-1917, Lauren Sarah Young

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Computer modeling of the evolution of the Gilkey and Thiel Glacier Valley profiles, Juneau Icefield, Alaska, Jenna Marie Zechmann

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Social identity theory and the compatibility of self-motives in intergroup context, Jinghui Zhang

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Investigation of a molecular mechanism for anesthetic preconditioning, Alexis Marie Ziemba

Honors Projects and Theses from 2011

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Looking for a lost city : the creation of Holocaust lieux de mémoire, Laura Christina Arellano-Weddleton

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Six-nippled sheep and other eugenic oddities : exploring voices of the American eugenics movement in the Northeast from 1883 to the mid-1920s, Ceilidh Robin Auger-Day

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Characterization of the promoter of the Brugia malayi thioredoxin-peroxidase-2 protein gene, Adeola Phebean Awodele

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The formation of large garnets at Gore Mountain, New York : experimental partial melting of amphibolite and meta-gabbro, Jennifer Anne Axler

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Correlated evolution of ant seed dispersal and flowering phenology in the herbaceous flora of the temperate deciduous forest biome, Lois I. Bangiolo

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Socially aware computing and intelligent garments, Aliyah Haggar Bilal-Gore

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"She's not there" : beyond the vilifications of Norma Khouri's Honor lost, Elizabeth A. Brasington

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Defining rights : Parliamentary discourse on the Kenyan female circumcision crisis, 1929-1931, Hilary Ravdin Buxton

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Indeterminate systems, Katherine Ann Conlon

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Swells, men of the world, and gentlemen : construction of masculinities in London high society, 1850-1880, Abigail Q. Cooper

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Jet lag-induced internal desynchronization is associated with deficits in adult neurogenesis in mouse hippocampus, Kayla L. Correia

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An assessment of housing affordability in an exurban community : the case of Leverett, Massachusetts, Molly Alter Daniell

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Fra il dialetto e la lingua nazionale : il gap generazionale in Abruzzo, Christine Marie Davenport

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MicroRNA regulated gene expression in Brugia malayi, Tarja Yvanka De Soysa

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A preliminary examination of the cognitive consequences of intergroup attack : de-personalization, well-being and rejection sensitivity, Catherine Viola Dodson

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Analytics and art : visualizing Wikipedia word frequencies using image collages, Elizabeth Do

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"DNA does not lie, but its truth is often elusive" : critical discourse analysis of news reports on predictive genetic testing, Carolyn Blythe Drake

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Experimental calibration of a model used to estimate campus heating energy consumption, Darcy Elizabeth Dwyer

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Taking care : women, gay men and AIDS in New York City, 1981-1992, Lena Samora Eckert-Erdheim

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Controlling surface chemistry on nanopatterned silicon substrates : direct organic functionalization of rough surfaces, Amelia Kate Evans

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Investigating the biodiversity of amoebae from the Smith College Plant House, Anastasia Lauren Gant

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"Our Republic" : St. Enda's College, 1908-1916, Gwen Bardeen Gethner

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Assessment of GABAa receptor modulation by potential endozepines : a patch-clamp electrophysiological study, Shikha Goel

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A longitudinal study of language acquisition and literacy development in Hispanic chidren with varying degrees of bilingualism : the effects of English immersion in preschool, Markeisha Nadrian Grant

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Shapin' words : Toomer, Faulkner, Eliot and modernist poetics, Sarah Ayres Green

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Fez : heritage and identity in the spaces and places of Fās, Morocco, Ariel Sydney Gregory

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Genres of spirit : tragedy, comedy and aristocracy in Isak Dinesen's "Sorrow-acre" and "Copenhagen season", Catharina Elise Gress-Wright

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City living, healthy living? : the relationship between density and health in U.S. counties and cities, Ella Nicole Hartenian

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An analysis of New York energy policy targeting renewable energy and energy conservation, Lindsay Killian Holle

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Activities of daily living scale in hoarding disorder, Veselina Gencheva Hristova

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Wake, Cassandra Rose Jensen

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Material constraints, symbolic violence, and navigating the sorting mechanism : a qualitative study of community college students, Colleen Amber Johnston

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Determinants of entrepreneurship in developed and developing countries, Shorena Kalandarishvili

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The courage to be confused : negative capability in Keats's sonnets, Megan Rose Kearney

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Self-stereotyping in educational environments : the effects of academic labeling and group entitativity on student achievement, Danielle Jaeyoung Kim

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Insights into the origin of the South Fork fault detachment, Wyoming, using calcite strain analysis, Katherine Ann Kravitz

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Reminisching with rhymes : (re)imagining (r)evolution within Asian America through arts and activism and Dividing lines, a play, Judy J. Lei

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L'Héroïne colettienne : une image des paradoxes de la condition féminine pendant la Belle époque, Alexandra Paige Lewis

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Exploring the nuclear dynamics of Arcella hemisphaerica and the features of its bacterial endosymbionts, Jian Hua Lin

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Inner-party reform in China : a harbinger of democracy?, Hanzhang Liu

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Fixing gaps in protein data using inverse kinematics, Yang Li

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Circadian rhythms and coupling in hepatocytes, Martha E. Luitje

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Characterization of trace metal concentrations and mining legacy in soils, Boulder County, Colorado, Ellen Marcia Maley

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"Citizen, my mother is the Republic" : ideologies of terror, gender and heroism in Charles Dicken's A tale of two cities and Victor Hugo's Quatrevingt-treize, Elyse Jade Martin

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Making sense of environmental enrichment : the behavioral responses of captive African cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) to ecologically relevant scents, Lily Thane Maynard

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Legitimacy in transitional justice : a comparative look at transitional justice processes in South Africa, the former Yugoslavia, and East Timor, Amelia Hawkins Mitchell

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A shape to fill a lack : absence, gender and the American South in three novels by William Faulkner, 1929-1931, Esther Maria Mobley

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"Wild abandon" : rural lesbian histories in Wyoming and Montana, 1960-1998, Katherine Luann Morris

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The effects of fever temperature on gene expression in Escherichia coli, Germaine Yeku Nendah

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Phylogenetics and biogeography of Hyalospheniidae (Arcellinida), Truc Bang Nguyen

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To be or not to be : examining the role of language in a concept of negation, Ann Elizabeth Nordmeyer

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Is jet lag stressful? : the interactions between circadian disruption and the stress response in mice, Mallery Roth Olsen

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Structural studies of DNA duplexes using 2-dimensional NMR spectroscopy, Joo Hyun Park

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Development of a tandem Diels-Alder/Pauson-Khand strategy for the synthesis of tetracycles, Sarah Jacqueline Perlmutter

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Prosa, poesia e cinema : la contaminazione tra le forme artistiche nell'opera di Pier Paolo Pasolini, Chrysanthe Alana Peteros

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The Tenishev School experiment : pedagogy and poetry, Katey Maya Pillars

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Mary Ann Shadd : an inciting voice for Canadian emigration and Black women's influence in politics and print in the male-dominated, mid-19th century racial uplift movement, Kendra Poppy

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Motivation, meritocracy, and the model minority rights myth : representations of Asian Americans in spelling bees, Kimberly Anne Probolus

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Contesting U.S. feminist imperialism : the transnational activism of Mexican feminist Elena Arizmendi, 1911-1938, Darcy Rendon

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Mitogen activated protein kinase expression in murine C2C12 myogenesis in vitro, Astia Norton Roper-Batker

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Doing time is money : the economic crisis, criminal justice ideology and sentencing reform in Michigan,, Leah Jane Sakala

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Coming home : the struggles of returning girl soldiers in northern Uganda, Lily K. Samuels

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Probing the molecular architecture of bio-films : an in situ FTIR investigation of Poly-L-lysine and alginate on silicon-based surfaces, Cristina Caridad Santarossa

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The effects of surface chemistry and nanoscale topography on biofilm colonization and growth, Carmen Say

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Origin of the enigmatic breccia and folds in the Turners Falls formation, Deerfield Basin, Western Massachusetts, Lily Elizabeth Seidman

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Il fascino del fascismo : la mistica di Mussolini e la politica dell'estetismo, Julia E. Simmons

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Peoples politicized : self-determination, the UN and international human rights, Bethany Hannah Singer-Baefsky

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Bacterial diversity in Avery Brook beaver pond sediments, Sara Hope Sirois

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Cabots talk only to God : a collection of short stories, Quenby MacRae Solberg

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How personal crisis made the Risorgimento : Mazzini and Cavour before and after 1836, Camilla Rose Somers

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Perception and reality of inter-nation stereotypes and images : a test of image theory and the stereotype content model using objective measures, Deborah Jiehyun Song

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Biotic and abiotic factors affecting throughfall volume and spatial variabiity in a New England forest, Caitlin Marie Spence

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Market integration of distributed resources through coordinated frequency and price droop, Chin Yen Tee

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An exploration of restricted lactate dehydrogenase subunit association, Samantha Danielle Torquato

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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

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Clay-catalyzed natural products synthesis : an investigation of a green organic synthesis of vanillin using montmorillonite clay, Anna Margaret Valentine

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"A very threatened and nervous group of people" : public scrutiny of sexuality at Smith College in two historical moments, Ginina Grace Velocci

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Structural analysis of Precambrian mylonite zones, Henry's Lake Mountains, southwest Montana and Idaho, Alianora Walker

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Harmonic tensions : disciplinary boundaries in Nietzsche and Camus, Sofia Ali Walker

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"That's what makes me, me" : portraits of four high school students reveal the importantance of an after-school program, Elizabeth Marie Wallace

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International images and stereotypes : applying image theory and the stereotype content model to inter-group relationships among three Latin American countries, Raya Jordan Wall

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Art as litany : analyzing Alexej von Jawlensky's work as an Expressionist outsider, Jessica Watson

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Screening Jane Eyre : gender and the construction of character on film, Sarah Jean Wisner

Honors Projects and Theses from 2010

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Hard to be soft : full frontal nudity in cinema : anxieties of alternative masculinities and the recuperation of patriarchy, Ana Abbasi

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Novel method of analysis for DPOAE magnitude and phase, Modupe Florence Adegoke

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Modeling traffic congestion in the Accra metropolitan area, Margaret-Avis Naa Akofio-Sowah

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The Diels-Alder reaction : synthesis of a cationic dienophile, Stephanie Vivian Aldrin

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Power reflectance measurements on infant ears with normal hearing and transient hearing loss, Elizabeth Ann Amadei

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Who shot first? : depictions of children in westerns of the 50s to today, Deborah Amandine Asseraf

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Defining the cellular and molecular identities of diencephalic astroglia associated with postoptic commissure formation during Zebrafish forebrain development, Sarah Lubna Bashiruddin

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The effect of myostatin deficiency on achilles tendon structural and material behavior in male mice, Brianne Kathryn Connizzo