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 2022
The Phenomenology of African Women’s Spiritual Futurity in African Futurism, Mosa N. Molapo
Transcriptomic Variability Across an Anemone (Exaiptasia diaphana) Polyp, Joanne Moseley
Genome-Wide Identification of Brugia Malayi Transcription Factor Binding Sites Using ChIP-Seq, Grace Mosley
Synthesis of Nitrogen Containing Neurolenin Derivatives as a Potential Drug Against Lymphatic Filariasis, Monalisa Munia
Determining Conditions for Storage and Release of Road Salt Pollution in a Calcareous Fen: A Hydrological and Geochemical Analysis of Kampoosa Bog, Stockbridge and Lee, MA., Wayne D. H. Ndlovu
Number Theoretic Properties of a Sequence Arising from a Discrete Dynamical System with a Countable Number of Discontinuities, Pham Dan Anh Nguyen
Camera-Penned, User-Generated: Searching for Self in YouTube Video Essays, Clare O'Gara
O Olho de Cabra: An Exploration of the Human-Nature Relationship in Reality Television, Ellis Jane Oliver
Animal Abundance and Redox Conditions During the Furongian Cambrian SPICE Event, Western Utah, Amelia E. Olsen
Changing the International System: Democratic Backsliding and Autocratic Control of the United Nations, Erin Oppel
Exploring the Effect of Cobalt-complexed Alkynes on Dienes in Diels-Alder Reactions, Lingyue Grace Ou
Characterizing the Influence of Sonic Hedgehog Guidance on Cranial Neural Crest Cell Migration into the Zebrafish Forebrain, Nadia Burnett PenkoffLidbeck
More than a Fire Starter? Examining the Impact of Voter Guides on Political Knowledge, Madeline Pfaff
Assessing Global Seismic Moment Balance, George C. Pharris
Music Waits: Writing an Invisible Illness for Live Theatre, Sophia Pichanick
Immunity Gene Knockdown in Aedes Albopictus and Aedes Polynesiensis Using RNA Interference, Rachel E. Pietrow
Subverting Mother/Lands: How Black Women of the 1970s Reclaimed the New Negro, Négritude, and Negrismo, Rose A. Poku
Characterizing the Anti-Cancer Therapeutic Effects of an Engineered Protein That Recognizes Mesothelin Tumor Biomarker, Florence Yunan Qian
Forams at 4am: Genome Dynamics, Nuclear Structure, and Synchronicity within Foraminifera, Hannah A. Rappaport
When the Realms of Life and Death Collide: a Literary Katabasis, Phoebe Rendon-Nissenbaum
Resilient Carbon Neutrality: Battery Backup Power on Smith Campus, Sarah Robson
Exploring the Relationships Between Socioeconomic Status, Expressive Language and Self-Injurious Behaviors in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Lindsey Rosenthal
Governance of European Integration: The Path Forward, Nikki Schuldt
Democratic Precarity from Below: Exclusion, Resistance, and the Gendered and Racialized Division of Labor, Lily Sendroff
Flying Protists: Analyzing Bird-associated Protists with High-throughput Sequencing, Clara Slesar
The “Comfort System” and the Allied Powers’ Failure to Prosecute Sexual Enslavement, Hayley Soehle
Reconstructing Past Temperatures from Lake Sediments at Darwin Crater, Tasmania, Australia Using the brGDGT Biomarker Proxy, Ibuki Sugiura
Social Contagion or Self-Containment? The Influence of Echo and Narcissus on The Picture of Dorian Gray, Caroline Triolo
The Phenotypic and Molecular Correlates of Colicin Resistance in E. coli, Helen Wang
“The Song and the Weeping”: Death, Love, and Gifts in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Melinda White
Fundamentally I am Chinese: Habsburg Jewish Authors between Antisemitism and Sinophobia 1900-1918, Fiona Wu
Chan-Lam Oxygen-Cyclopropylation of Aliphatic Alcohols, Miranda Wu
Site-Specific Protein-Polymer Conjugation with Activated Ester Polymers for Targeted Cancer Therapy, Jiyun Zhang
Private or Public Support? The Impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme on Intergenerational Support in Rural China, Zixuan Zhang
Development and Analysis of a Quasi Two-Dimensional Numerical Model for a Coaxial Geothermal Heat Exchanger, Xinyue Zou
Honors Projects and Theses from 2021
Our great curse : negative partisanship and social polarization in the United States, Molly St. Clair Aber
Gendered impacts of climate change on labor force participation in India, Prachi Adhikari
Constructing assembly scaffolds for viral data in the protein data bank, Sakina Ali
The enduring life of Black art : looming expectations and Freestyle's aesthetics of aliveness, Camille Gallogly Bacon
Describing the geometry of the ear canal from CT scans, Auden Pendar Balouch
Addressing the scientific reproducibility crisis through educational software integration, Audrey Margaret Bertin
Modern art and Yidish literature in interwar Paris : translating Wolf Wieviroka and Chil Aronson, Sarah Faye Biskowitz
Computational and experimental protein engineering for targeted drug delivery, Jessica Bonsu
The impact of weather shocks on employment outcomes : evidence from South Africa, Harriet Margaret Brookes Gray
Analysis and design of a gimbaled thrust model rocket, Halle E. Brown
ACT iCoach for undergraduates with disordered eating : feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary outcomes, Hallie Anne Brown
At the intersection of patriarchy and empire : mothers and daughters in Salt and Document of flames, Quinn Lovely Bulkeley
"You're exactly what I'd expect from the Confesh" : identity and catharsis in a digital space of localized anonymity, Abigail Camille Butera
TimeTracks & TimeTrails, Camille Harker Butterfield
It takes two : symbiont contributions to the sea anemone (Exaiptasia pallida) stress response, Quinton Oliver Celuzza
Life on a shellfish : the diversity and community dynamics of Epizoic foraminifera, Adena Beth Collens
Irish American identity and its fluidity : a study in culture, politics and its evolution, Maeve Brenna Conway
"We shall express our darker purpose" : curious intimacy between audience and antagonists in Shakespeare, Elizabeth Eileen Cronin
Food for thought : an investigation into sortals and object individuation in preverbal infants, Jenna Lea Croteau
Elemental tungsten partitioning in the SE Greenland Archean Thrym Complex, Victoria Eileen Devlin McLoughlin
Machine learning approaches to multi-animal behavioral analysis, Annie Aurora Dobroth
Engineering a cancer vaccine, Yacine Diama Fall
The gendered healthcare wealth gap : examining the correlation between gender bias in healthcare, chronic pain, and the gender wealth gap, Isabel Corbett Fields
Concerning small data : body mass index as a case study of normative implications embedded in data, Dayln Elizabeth Gillentine
Glow with the flow : visualizing bioelectric patterns and their relationship to axis determination in Danio rerio, Elora Celine Greiner
Evaluating redox conditions during the Cambrian SPICE event, western Newfoundland, Canada, Amy Patricia Isabelle Hagen
La medicina narrativa : un confronto fra l'Italia e gli Stati Uniti, Juliet Therese Jarrell
The space in between : bridging borderlands identity and the transgender movement, Sky Karp
Oh shit : centering nonbinary voices in the trans bathroom debate, Sam Krauss
Cool girl : an album of original songs : annotated lyrics, production notes and documentation, Shannon Joy Lambert
Finding distances between quantal states in a chaotic system, Yuxin Lan
Machiavelli's theory of virtue, Juanchu Li
Attention-based handwritten text recognition with spatial transformer networks, Sophie Milan Li
Of the grassland with no boundaries which no fire can burn down : a studio art honors thesis exhibition, Lucy Xiaochuan Liu
Mining the masquerade : Angela Calomiris, queerness, and the Cold War, Ruby Treinen Lowery
"A few good murders" : the case of the golden age "cozy" mystery, Hyla Maddalena
Discerning demographics : biodiversity of testate amoebae based on analyses of single-cell transcriptomes, Clara Rojan Malekshahi
Tentacular thinking : Medusa in and of the Anthropocene, Lilian Rose McCarthy
Historicizing Coming out : a cinematic encounter between national heterosexuality and gay identity in East Germany, Madeline Grace Michels
Bilattices and the logic of goal modeling, Isabel Grace Montesanto
Who is in charge? : exploring the connection between connexin dependent bioelectrics and morphogen signaling during axis determination in zebrafish, Janeth Mora-Martinez
Between a cell and a hard place : mechanisms of shell-building in the Arcellinid testate amoebae, Naomi K. Ostriker
Investigating strike-slip faulting parallel to the Icelandic plate boundary using boundary element models, Anna Elaine Rogers Pearson
Environmental inequality in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region of China, Morgan Corinne Peirce
The Jews of Kippenheim, Germany 1852-1940, Emma Catherine Platte
Fall of the blue wall : a statistical analysis of the 2016 presidential election, Marcelina A. Przespolewska
Social mobilization and pension reform in Chile : Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores No+AFP, Carla Esther Sarai Puentes Hernandez
No questions about it : promising, asking, and negating answers to the wh- questions, Lydia Ysabel Quevedo
How to remember a plague : TV, film and the collective memory of AIDS, Lauren V. Ramos
McDonald's : a case study in corporate responsibility in the age of Black lives matter, Jacqueline Richardson
Light and nutrient stress elicit different responses in clonal anemone (Exaiptasia pallida) lines, Giovanna Sylvia Sabini-Leite
Light and nutrient stress elicit different responses in clonal anemone (Exaiptasia pallida) lines, Giovanna Sylvia Sabini-Leite
Aash Min Shaafak : He, who saw you, lived, Clare Elspeth Sabry
Model of undisturbed ground temperature in Northampton, Massachusetts, Jiwoo Seo
Depicting concubines in inner quarters : the portrayal of marginalized womanhood in south Song China, Yixuan Doris Tang
Differential gene expression of transposable elements in ciliates, Anna Elizabeth Tenerowicz
Dopamine production by gut bacteria and its role in the progression of Parkinson's disease, Arianna Ratih Tidball
Virtue and talent : can women in late Imperial China have both?, Bella Tseeva
Multilingual dreams and exophonic realities : lessons from Tawada Yōko's essay "Capetown" in her story "Cinema of the night", Kerry Linda Walker