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 2010
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
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