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 2009
"Carriers of the nation" : changes in women's reproductive power in the AIDS era : a case study in Botswana, Katelyn Lucy
Through a glass darkly : Pynchon, Calvino, and the mirror, Sasha Mann
Authoritarianism and attitudes about arranged marriages in Bangladesh and South India, Jessica McCarthy
Snake cube puzzles : Hamilton paths in grid graphs, Alison Elizabeth McDonough
Normative measurements of energy reflectance in healthy newborns and one-month olds, Gabrielle R. Merchant
Reading women and writing art in Elizabethan epyllia, Dianne Marie Mitchell
Intertextuality and forging identity in Alison Bechdel's Fun home: a family tragicomic, Melina Alice Moore
On film and television : the portrayal of bioethics in popular culture, Elizabeth Morgan
Atmospheric mercury deposition in an isolated environment : a 150-year record at Block Island, Rhode Island, Rachel Neurath
The effectiveness of a biblio-based self-help program for compulsive hoarding, Alla Pekareva-Kochergina
Search for el mapa : exploring the intersection of languages in three bilingual plays, Sophie Hannah Ragone
Deciphering the roundabout code underlying postoptic commissure formation in the developing Zebrafish forebrain, Azucena Ramos
The park and the spirit of the city : an analysis of the cultural function of three urban parks, Becky Reinhart
Metamorphism of graphitic schists from Syros, Greece, Roxanne Renedo
The rose that grew from concrete : memory, dreamscapes, and the social construction of urban Black adolescenses in Dael Oladersmith's The gimmick, Monique Anastasia Robinson
The moderating effects of generalized threat on the relationship between authoritarianism, intolerance of ambiguity, and information processing strategies in a community sample, Stacy Anne Rockwood
Ethnic differences in how mothers describe their children, Wendy Michelle Roman
Mineralogy and origin of Zn-rich horizons within the arctic volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit, Ambler District, Alaska, Danielle Schmandt
Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of novel carbon solids, Alisa M. Stratulat
The mask of diversity : an examination of racial identity, change over time and multiculturalism in U.S. institutions of higher education, Vanessa Lynn Titang
There will be signs along the way to guide you : a study of abandonment in American society today, Olivia Wall
Geochemical investigation of weathering in a high arctic watershed and provenance of ssediments in Kongressvatnet, Svalbard, Norway, Maya Li Wei-Haas
The Lobo-Cabernite affair : a close look at the case study as history and historical problem, Anna White-Nockleby
Storied empires : The tempest and Lettres d'une Péruvienne, Caroline Winschel
Attitudes towards fatherhood in low income African American adolescent males, Emily Yen
James Baldwin : Black American expatriate, Anna R. Young
Honors Projects and Theses from 2008
Understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating postoptic commissure (POC) formation in the Zebrafish forebrain, Kristin Alligood
The effects of action video game playing on low-and high-level cognitive tasks, Elizabeth Ankudowich
Quest for representation : contemporary post-Holocaust fiction by Modiano, Foer and Sebald, Meredith Badler
Exploring the natural : an investigation in the manipulation of specimens, Syretha Brooks
Understanding biofilm formation : poly-L-lysine mediated adsorption of alginate to functionalized silica surfaces, Jennie Brown
Il sogno svizzero : la realtà degli immigrati italiani in Svizzera nel secondo dopoguerra, Felicitas Burgi
Jane Austen's brother-hero, Felicia Carey
The Spanish Civil War in film, 1938-2006 : history and memory in a transnational perspective, Molly Chadis
The effect of multiple gestational cycles on tendon structural and material behavior in mice, Alison Cloutier
Re-interpreting faith, challenging tradition : the impact of feminist theology on the Episcopal Church in the United States, Hillary Collins-Gilpatrick
Conway's angel problem, R. Jordan Crouser
The Israel lobby : search for the origins of the argument, Sidnie Davis
Virgin wife or liberated housholder : active contemplation in two philosophies, Lilith Dornhuber de Bellesiles
Long range : distance and technology in the soldier poetry of the First and Second World Wars, Emily Edmonds-Langham
On the edge : visions of the earthly paradise of Dante and Milton, Eleanor Farber
Mapping Julio-Claudian Rome : a study in Julio-Claudio geography through GIS, Cassandra Finger
Synthesis of a novel Diels-Alder diene, Seiko Fujii
The categorization and acquisition of Tibet evidentiality, Harper Gernet-Girard
The effects of Neuregulin-1-ß1 on circadian rhythms, Danielle Guild
"From the vasty deep" : the relationship between Japanese prime ministers and the politics of Yasukuni Shrine, Laura Hancock
Discover your "self" : justice, compassion and desire in Black women's ethical discourse, René Heavlow
Portraits of Beethoven : the Immortal Beloved controversy, Alessandra Jones
The evolution of Greek identity in the Roman world : understanding, accepting, and supporting Roman rule, Allison Jones
Give us children or we shall die : modern reproductive technology and Jewish law, Chelsea Kline
Mechanistic studies of Palladium enolate complexes, Katherine Kornecki
WTO Dispute 291 : who won?, Ellen Kreitmeier
The other hand : an exercise in adaptation inspired by the works of J.D. Salinger, Rachel Lerner-Ley
Look but don't touch : study of the Victorian corset, Joann Longobardo
Structure of a contact zone : analysis of Dusky salamander (genus Desmognathus) populations in the Bald Mountains, Tennessee and North Caroline, Lizmarie López
Unusual patterns of genome evolution in the ciliate clade Heterotrichea, Christina Lyman
Playing childhood : translating personal experience into collective narratives in prints, Arielle Marks
The St. John's Wood Clique : "the lost pages of history", Laura Martin
Dimensions of religious orientation and hazardous alcohol use among college students, Elan McCollum
Knot theory and the Alexander polynomial, Reagin McNeill
Critique and conscience : classics in Louis MacNeice's Autumn journal, Kimberly Meskimen
Unearthing stories : Caribbean women respond to the Brontës, Sarah Muffly
Heat shock and the developmental regulation of the MAPKs in C2C12 cells, Khue Nguyen
Athletes and alcohol : social influences on hazardous alcohol use and the mediating role of alcohol expectancies, Janine Olthuis
Archaic period warfare in the American southeast, Wendy Pariseau
The economics and ethics of executive compensation, Annie Parker
Third culture kids : factors that predict psychological health after repatriation, Laila Plamondon
Expanding the scope of the Dakin-West reaction, Julie Pyle
Effects of blood on the degradation of DNA from Filarial parasites, Syeda Qadri
Cobalt-complexed alkynes in the Diels-Alder reaction, Maureen Reilly
Stratigraphy, mineralogy, and geochemistry of the Bolivar Cu-Zn skarn deposit, Chihuahua, Mexico, Merilie Reynolds
Egypt's Muslim brotherhood : the evolution of an Islamic alternative?, Emily Riff
Sin título : entre Babel y el silencio, Nicole Rizki
Una rivoluzione mancata : la sotria delle Brigate rosse, Anielka Sánchez
The migration of Wuthering Heights : a study of Wuthering Heights, Windward Heights, and Here on earth, Maria Sclafani
Quintet for piano and strings, Aliyah Shanti
India's unwanted female children : a district-level analysis of gender differential in child mortality rates, Puja Singhal
War and lament in Homer's Iliad, Alison Smith
Elite security : how the press protects the security agenda over individual rights, Amanda Smithberger
Two stars rising : the European Union's foreign policy in China, Anastasia Solovaniuk
A comparative study of the centralization of sport policy in England and the United States, Victoria Stovall
Housing American history : the architecture of southern memory in Faulkner, Christenberry and Morrison, Kathryn Sutton
Dose-dependent effects of the enzyme-inducing antiepileptic drug, phenytoin, on androgen-mediated behaviors and neuroendrocrine function of male rats, Patricia Svrckova
Nickel catalyzed chemical vapor deposition of diamond thin films, Briana Tomboulian
Narrating a multifaceted self : producing and policing identity on Facebook, Sara Waszkiewicz
Effect of stand characteristics on throughfall in a New England forest, Alex Webster
Ultrasounds : maternal voices in the soundscape of the modern horror film, Morgan Woolsey
Honors Projects and Theses from 1996
Growing Up and Becoming a Woman in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House Series, Charity Kemp Mack
Honors Projects and Theses from 1955
The Magic Mirror: A Study of the Double in Two of Dostoevsky's Novels, Sylvia Plath
Honors Projects and Theses from 1948
Hospitality in Homer, Juliane Dorothea Straus
Honors Projects and Theses from 1933
The Sculptured Friezes in the Nave of San Lorenzo, Margaret Kremers