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
MicroRNA regulated gene expression in Brugia malayi, Tarja Yvanka De Soysa
A preliminary examination of the cognitive consequences of intergroup attack : de-personalization, well-being and rejection sensitivity, Catherine Viola Dodson
Analytics and art : visualizing Wikipedia word frequencies using image collages, Elizabeth Do
"DNA does not lie, but its truth is often elusive" : critical discourse analysis of news reports on predictive genetic testing, Carolyn Blythe Drake
Experimental calibration of a model used to estimate campus heating energy consumption, Darcy Elizabeth Dwyer
Taking care : women, gay men and AIDS in New York City, 1981-1992, Lena Samora Eckert-Erdheim
Controlling surface chemistry on nanopatterned silicon substrates : direct organic functionalization of rough surfaces, Amelia Kate Evans
Investigating the biodiversity of amoebae from the Smith College Plant House, Anastasia Lauren Gant
"Our Republic" : St. Enda's College, 1908-1916, Gwen Bardeen Gethner
Assessment of GABAa receptor modulation by potential endozepines : a patch-clamp electrophysiological study, Shikha Goel
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
Shapin' words : Toomer, Faulkner, Eliot and modernist poetics, Sarah Ayres Green
Fez : heritage and identity in the spaces and places of Fās, Morocco, Ariel Sydney Gregory
Genres of spirit : tragedy, comedy and aristocracy in Isak Dinesen's "Sorrow-acre" and "Copenhagen season", Catharina Elise Gress-Wright
City living, healthy living? : the relationship between density and health in U.S. counties and cities, Ella Nicole Hartenian
An analysis of New York energy policy targeting renewable energy and energy conservation, Lindsay Killian Holle
Activities of daily living scale in hoarding disorder, Veselina Gencheva Hristova
Wake, Cassandra Rose Jensen
Material constraints, symbolic violence, and navigating the sorting mechanism : a qualitative study of community college students, Colleen Amber Johnston
Determinants of entrepreneurship in developed and developing countries, Shorena Kalandarishvili
The courage to be confused : negative capability in Keats's sonnets, Megan Rose Kearney
Self-stereotyping in educational environments : the effects of academic labeling and group entitativity on student achievement, Danielle Jaeyoung Kim
Insights into the origin of the South Fork fault detachment, Wyoming, using calcite strain analysis, Katherine Ann Kravitz
L'Héroïne colettienne : une image des paradoxes de la condition féminine pendant la Belle époque, Alexandra Paige Lewis
Exploring the nuclear dynamics of Arcella hemisphaerica and the features of its bacterial endosymbionts, Jian Hua Lin
Inner-party reform in China : a harbinger of democracy?, Hanzhang Liu
Fixing gaps in protein data using inverse kinematics, Yang Li
Circadian rhythms and coupling in hepatocytes, Martha E. Luitje
Characterization of trace metal concentrations and mining legacy in soils, Boulder County, Colorado, Ellen Marcia Maley
"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
Making sense of environmental enrichment : the behavioral responses of captive African cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) to ecologically relevant scents, Lily Thane Maynard
Legitimacy in transitional justice : a comparative look at transitional justice processes in South Africa, the former Yugoslavia, and East Timor, Amelia Hawkins Mitchell
A shape to fill a lack : absence, gender and the American South in three novels by William Faulkner, 1929-1931, Esther Maria Mobley
"Wild abandon" : rural lesbian histories in Wyoming and Montana, 1960-1998, Katherine Luann Morris
The effects of fever temperature on gene expression in Escherichia coli, Germaine Yeku Nendah
Phylogenetics and biogeography of Hyalospheniidae (Arcellinida), Truc Bang Nguyen
To be or not to be : examining the role of language in a concept of negation, Ann Elizabeth Nordmeyer
Is jet lag stressful? : the interactions between circadian disruption and the stress response in mice, Mallery Roth Olsen
Structural studies of DNA duplexes using 2-dimensional NMR spectroscopy, Joo Hyun Park
Development of a tandem Diels-Alder/Pauson-Khand strategy for the synthesis of tetracycles, Sarah Jacqueline Perlmutter
Prosa, poesia e cinema : la contaminazione tra le forme artistiche nell'opera di Pier Paolo Pasolini, Chrysanthe Alana Peteros
The Tenishev School experiment : pedagogy and poetry, Katey Maya Pillars
Motivation, meritocracy, and the model minority rights myth : representations of Asian Americans in spelling bees, Kimberly Anne Probolus
Contesting U.S. feminist imperialism : the transnational activism of Mexican feminist Elena Arizmendi, 1911-1938, Darcy Rendon
Mitogen activated protein kinase expression in murine C2C12 myogenesis in vitro, Astia Norton Roper-Batker
Doing time is money : the economic crisis, criminal justice ideology and sentencing reform in Michigan,, Leah Jane Sakala
Coming home : the struggles of returning girl soldiers in northern Uganda, Lily K. Samuels
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
The effects of surface chemistry and nanoscale topography on biofilm colonization and growth, Carmen Say
Origin of the enigmatic breccia and folds in the Turners Falls formation, Deerfield Basin, Western Massachusetts, Lily Elizabeth Seidman
Il fascino del fascismo : la mistica di Mussolini e la politica dell'estetismo, Julia E. Simmons
Peoples politicized : self-determination, the UN and international human rights, Bethany Hannah Singer-Baefsky
Bacterial diversity in Avery Brook beaver pond sediments, Sara Hope Sirois
Cabots talk only to God : a collection of short stories, Quenby MacRae Solberg
How personal crisis made the Risorgimento : Mazzini and Cavour before and after 1836, Camilla Rose Somers
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
Biotic and abiotic factors affecting throughfall volume and spatial variabiity in a New England forest, Caitlin Marie Spence
Market integration of distributed resources through coordinated frequency and price droop, Chin Yen Tee
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