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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 2020

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"Anticipatory illuminations" : the performance of the Jewish sabbath as queer futurity, Liel C. Green

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Coral Gardens Reef, Belize: A Refugium in the Face of Caribbean-Wide Acropora Spp. Coral Decline, Lisa Greer, Tara Clark, Tanner Waggoner, James Busch, Thomas P. Guilderson, Karl Wirth, Jian-xin Zhao, and H. Allen Curran

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Fiddler crab burrowing and oil polution alter greenhouse gas fluxes from salt marsh soil, Adrianna K. Grow

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"I don't want everyone to vote"¹ : voter disenfranchisement and suppression in the American electorate, Emma Rose Guyette

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A long distance interstellar dance : testing the physical association of an extremely-wide substellar companion to a nearby M-dwarf binary, Michaela Susan Guzzetti

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Olympic legacy 2016 : the violence of peacekeeping in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Abigail Megan Hanna

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Simone Weil's theology of mathematics, Halley Turpin Haruta

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Algorithmic (in)explainability : causality and machine learning, You Jeen Ha

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Ecological distribution of testate amoebae in New England, Evelyn Grey Elizaabeth Hoffman

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"Pickled punks" and "God's unknown children" : fetal and infant specimen display in twentieth-century American sideshows, Sara Ann Hollar

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Are you my mother? : revolutionary reimaginings of the Mother Nature archetype in Salvage the bones and The bean trees, Patricia Jane Jewell

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Dynamic model of coaxial ground-source geothermal system for the Smith College field house, Yihui Jiang

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Multifaithism : the new religion of the American college, a case study at Smith College, Kimraj Kaur Jordan

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Building Gethen, Sinead Eliane Joyce-Farley

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Genomic analysis of bacterial resistance to narrow spectrum antibiotics : linking phenotypes to genotypes, Nancy Yoobin Jung

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"No daylight between" : temporality, monstrosity, and the possiblity of empire in Israel and the United States, Clara Allene Kaul

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Twang identification in American folk & country music, Jessica Nichole Keast

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Disease resistance variance in the Great Star Coral, Emma R. Kelley

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Investigating the effect of pH on amino-propofol's function in ion channel modulation and fluorescence labeling in vitro, Eun Kyung Kim

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Like mother, like daughter? : evidence from Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam of the impact of mothers' educational attainments on daughters' schooling, Isabel X. Kitschelt

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The "bound"-aries of femininity : constructing and performing womanhood on and off-stage, Claire Lillian Lane

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"He saw me as a person first and then a student" : student and teacher perspectives on earning respect, Sarah Lynne Leandro

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Species comparison of androgen receptor density and neuron abundance in the lumbar spinal cord of frogs, Kerry Marie LeCure

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The influence of mobile communication use on homesickness and autobiographical memories in college students, Sylvie Jean Lednicky

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Gender and jet fuel : extractivism, social reproduction, and capitalism in crisis, Shea L. Leibow

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An examination of ethnicity, self-construal, perfectionism and eating disorder symptoms in Asian and European American college women, Sicong Li

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Investigating forebrain development : robo4 cell guidance, forebrain cellular heterogeneity, and neural crest immigration, Mackenzie Patricia Heffernan Litz

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The effect of state characteristics and cybercrime legislation on Internet crime, Emily Yunfeng Liu

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Exploration of the phylogeography of twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla), an ant-dispersed forest herb native to the eastern United States, Xufen Liu

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Site-specific protein-polymer conjugation for targeted cancer therapy, Yanxuan Li

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Solvent environments of secondary organic aerosol mimicking solution, Emmaline Reed Longnecker

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The unspoken thing : a novella, Emily Jaie Luong

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Computational analysis of in vivo circadian bioluminescence in freely moving mice, Blanca Cristina Martin Burgos

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Lev Shestov : faith, reason, and experience, Avery M. Masters

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Effects of prenatal folic acid exposure on social behavior in prairie voles, Taylor Eve McCain

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Feeding-induced circadian disruption in the liver : towards a non-invasive method of observing circadian disruption in peripheral tissues, Eleanor Evans McCartney

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Using gravitational-wave signals to model the distribution of spin across the binary black hole population, Simona Jane Miller

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The effects of carbon source and oxygen availability on gene expression in uropathogenic Escherichia coli, Grace M. Moore

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Cosmologies of healing in Ceremony and The salt eaters, Kathleen Frances Mullins

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Analyses of genome structures in testate amoeba (Arcellinida, Amoebozoa) uning single-cell 'omics and flurescence microscopy, Ketty Munyenyembe

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Defining the role of the reelin signaling pathway in neurogenesis and behavior - a zebrafish model of autism spectrum disorders, Grace Kathryn Nevil

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Foraminifera over time, space, and in response to temperature, Giovanna M. Noe-Wilson

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Estimating microbial diversity of toxin producing bacteria from soil using cellular automata, Aoi Ogawa

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A statistical exploration of accretion rates in substellar objects, Anne Peck

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Simultaneous detection of salivary dopamine and its metabolites via HPLC coupled electrochemical detection : a detection method for early-onset Parkinson's disease, Qiyi Qian

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Mapping the evolutionary history of genes along chromosomes in diverse eukaryotic parasites, Dana Ragooanan

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Validity and utility of wireless wearable heart rate assessment : comparisons with wired, subjective, and salivary measures, Julia R. Riccardi

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Corrupted : evolution of identity and the body in Gothic literature, Renée Rienecker

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Queer immigration : Brazilian women navigating race & citizenship in the United States, Marcela Rodrigues-Sherley

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Characterizing the role of meteorin as a midline signaling molecule for developing the embryonic CNS, Madeline Marie Ryan

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Understanding the role of slow slip events in the Cascadia earthquake cycle, Juliette Paule Saux

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Predicting impending failure of an electro-chemical sensor, Junyuan Shi

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From bustles to bras, 1851-1939 : honors thesis and exhibition catalog, Allison Lora Smith

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Re-visioning time and intimacy for the anthropocene : Virginia Woolf's queer modes of life-writing in To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and Flush, Rylee Marie Smith

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The effect of human body temperature on the proteo-transcriptomic responses of commensal and pathogenic Escherichia coli, Isidora Stanković

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Authoress of the world : womanhood in Margaret Cavendish's writings, Jemma Kathryn Stephenson

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Examining which factors influence exhaustivity in children's answers to wh-questions, Bethany Mary Stoddard

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Effects of dim evening light on circadian rhythms and behavior, Selma Tir

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Family matters : political mobilization among evangelical Protestants and Latter-day Saints, Rachel Carr Venator

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Music from my living room : an album for the Smith community, Sarah Elizabeth Vespa

Automatically merging evolving goal models, Yilin Wang

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Automatically merging evolving goal models, Yilin Wang

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An encoder-based soft optical waveguide sensor pair for contact force detection and localization, Yuhan Wen

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The Jews of Bukhara : from ancient beginnings to the present day, Shoshana Beth Werblow

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Analysis of neurolenin bioactivity in adult Caenorhabditis elegans and Dirofilaria immitis, Grace Caroline Wessels

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Synthesis and base pair opening kinetics of the Spiroimminodihydantoin lesion, Ruby C. Wu

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Development of a tandem Diels-Alder/Pauson-Khand reaction strategy for the synthesis of a tetracyclic steroid core, Eve Yuanwei Xu

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Metabolites prediction in multiple studies using machine learning, Ziwei Zang

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Nucleosomal base excision repair of spiroiminodihydantoin lesions initiated by formamidopyrimidine DNA glycosylase, Linghe Zhang

Honors Projects and Theses from 2019

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The impact of homesickness on autobiographical memories in first-generation college students, Mathena Alexis Abramson

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Does a higher minimum wage reduce poverty rates?, Sarah Elizabeth Albert

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Modeling racially disproportionate language on Twitter during NFL game play, Julianna Grace Alvord

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Retrospective financial analysis of the mercury and air toxics standards compliance costs, Haleigh M. Anderson

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Visiones en el horizonte : la liminalidad y su expresión en tres novelas cubano/americanas, Sarah Denni Arnold

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American dreamin' : critical perspectives on race and Black capitalism in Jay-Z's 4:44, Aliya Bailey

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While I might be an Avenger... it's not like I have super-powers : negotiating representations of deafness and disability in Marvel's Hawkeye comics, Juliana Caroline Bauerle

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Rethinking imperialism : globalization, trade and tea in the Qing Dynasty, Kendra Donovan Bonde

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Characterizing phenol analog modulation of GABAa receptor currents as novel anesthetic agents, Lauren Chelsea Bondi

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The effect of gestational folic acid exposure on offspring behavior, Natalie Simone Bourdon

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Digital signaling processing with FPGAs, Meng Cao

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Developing a Zebrafish assay for general anesthesia to assess the impact of the Delta subunit of GABAa receptor on anesthesia sensitivity, Jamie Chan

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Visualizing jet lag in the suprachiasmatic nucleus and liver, Guinevere Grace Connelly

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Status, threats, and restoration of acroporid corals throughout the Caribbean, Sabrina Cordero

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Environmental compliance through the early environmental coordination checklist (EECC) : a case study in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, Beatrix Mae Dalton

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Screening for undersized culverts : an analysis of estimated characteristics, Molly Rose Day

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Toxicity and mutagenicity evaluation of antifilarial neurolenin derivatives as potential drug candidate for lymphatic filariasis, Lydia Pedrick DeAngelo

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Beats of the new political age : hip hop and youth political engagement in contemporary Senegal, Aminata Diallo

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Instant saviors (just add water), Sofia Evelina Engelman

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To break a beautiful thing : a novella, Ellena L. Erskine

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Investigating the relationship between the structure and function of the dynein microtubule binding domain, Sarah Jane Flaherty

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Implementation of an FPGA-based artificial neural network, Luya Gao

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Family matters : intersections of family & gender in criminal court, Katharina Geppert

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Conceiving Katsi Cook's life writings : pregnancy as a communal, integrative, and natural experience, Jenna Lee Gilley

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Genome dynamics and nuclear changes throughout the life cycles of foraminifera, Eleanor Goetz

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Let's face it : ǂb the teratogenic effects of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on craniofacial development, Aliece Tayia Goodman

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Mechanism of stereoselective catalysis by Diels-Alderase PyrE3 involved in pyrroindomycins biosynthesis, Xingyi Guan

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Operant conditioning to quantify social choices in male prairie voles, Emily R. Halstead

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Wordsworth's theater of anxiety, Lacey Carroll Harvey

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Five minutes at a time : witness testimony, member engagement, and deliberation in congressional hearings, Ellison Deanna Hersch

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The Chinese exclusion era in the United States : gender, politics, and community, Agnes Kangwen Hu