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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 2022

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Simulation of a Magneto-optical Trap for Oxygen Atoms, Umeyma Ibrahim

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A FUV to NIR Accretion Luminosity Accounting of the Young Brown Dwarf 2M1207A, Lillian Yushu Jiang

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The State and the Stateless: What Do We Owe Refugees, Qingle Jin

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Optimization of Poly(Pentafluorophenyl Acrylate) Polymer-Drug Conjugates for Targeted Drug Delivery, Macy R. Kasbo

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Triple Stars, Emma J. Kerr

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Synthesis and Optimization of Fn3-Pvdma Protein-Polymer Conjugates for Targeted Drug Delivery Applications, Yeji Lee

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Fishing for Anxiety: Determining the Role of the Reelin Signaling Pathway in Regulating Zebrafish Behavior, Diamond Lewis

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Work Toward the Synthesis of Strained Heteroatom-Containing Cyclic Alkynes Using an Intramolecular Nicholas Reaction, Halley M. Lin-Jones

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Connections between Deicing Practices and Infrastructure on Water Chemistry of Lyman and Paradise Ponds at Smith College, Northampton, MA, Wenxi Li

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Decolonial Liminality: Boundary Crossings in the Novels of Michelle Cliff, Diamond Christina Mark

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Aintabtzis in America: an Armenian Community Rebuilt, Alex Martin

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Popularizing Mysticism: William James, Carl Jung, and the Development of American Psycho-Spirituality, Grace Mason-Brown

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Gravitational Lens Modeling to Inform Studies of Distant Dusty Star-forming Galaxies: A Close Look at J132217, Lilah Mercadante

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The Role of Electricity Sector Modeling in Climate Policy Design: A Case Study of Massachusetts, Lucy E. Metz

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The Phenomenology of African Women’s Spiritual Futurity in African Futurism, Mosa N. Molapo

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Transcriptomic Variability Across an Anemone (Exaiptasia diaphana) Polyp, Joanne Moseley

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Genome-Wide Identification of Brugia Malayi Transcription Factor Binding Sites Using ChIP-Seq, Grace Mosley

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Synthesis of Nitrogen Containing Neurolenin Derivatives as a Potential Drug Against Lymphatic Filariasis, Monalisa Munia

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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

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Number Theoretic Properties of a Sequence Arising from a Discrete Dynamical System with a Countable Number of Discontinuities, Pham Dan Anh Nguyen

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Camera-Penned, User-Generated: Searching for Self in YouTube Video Essays, Clare O'Gara

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O Olho de Cabra: An Exploration of the Human-Nature Relationship in Reality Television, Ellis Jane Oliver

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Animal Abundance and Redox Conditions During the Furongian Cambrian SPICE Event, Western Utah, Amelia E. Olsen

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Changing the International System: Democratic Backsliding and Autocratic Control of the United Nations, Erin Oppel

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Exploring the Effect of Cobalt-complexed Alkynes on Dienes in Diels-Alder Reactions, Lingyue Grace Ou

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Characterizing the Influence of Sonic Hedgehog Guidance on Cranial Neural Crest Cell Migration into the Zebrafish Forebrain, Nadia Burnett PenkoffLidbeck

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More than a Fire Starter? Examining the Impact of Voter Guides on Political Knowledge, Madeline Pfaff

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Assessing Global Seismic Moment Balance, George C. Pharris

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Music Waits: Writing an Invisible Illness for Live Theatre, Sophia Pichanick

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Immunity Gene Knockdown in Aedes Albopictus and Aedes Polynesiensis Using RNA Interference, Rachel E. Pietrow

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Subverting Mother/Lands: How Black Women of the 1970s Reclaimed the New Negro, Négritude, and Negrismo, Rose A. Poku

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Characterizing the Anti-Cancer Therapeutic Effects of an Engineered Protein That Recognizes Mesothelin Tumor Biomarker, Florence Yunan Qian

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Forams at 4am: Genome Dynamics, Nuclear Structure, and Synchronicity within Foraminifera, Hannah A. Rappaport

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When the Realms of Life and Death Collide: a Literary Katabasis, Phoebe Rendon-Nissenbaum

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Skeletal Abundance and Diversity in the Lower Ordovician Catoche and Fillmore Formations: Tracing the Roots of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, Ashley Rivas

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Resilient Carbon Neutrality: Battery Backup Power on Smith Campus, Sarah Robson

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Exploring the Relationships Between Socioeconomic Status, Expressive Language and Self-Injurious Behaviors in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Lindsey Rosenthal

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Governance of European Integration: The Path Forward, Nikki Schuldt

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Democratic Precarity from Below: Exclusion, Resistance, and the Gendered and Racialized Division of Labor, Lily Sendroff

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Flying Protists: Analyzing Bird-associated Protists with High-throughput Sequencing, Clara Slesar

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The “Comfort System” and the Allied Powers’ Failure to Prosecute Sexual Enslavement, Hayley Soehle

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Development of an Iron-catalyzed Oxidative 𝛼-Amination Method to Couple Carbonyl Derivatives with Primary Sulfonamides and Other Nitrogen Sources, Fubin Song

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African American Parent Stories About How Race, Culture, Class and Personal Experiences Influence Parental Involvement with Public Schools: A Narrative Analysis, Brandy Stewart

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Reconstructing Past Temperatures from Lake Sediments at Darwin Crater, Tasmania, Australia Using the brGDGT Biomarker Proxy, Ibuki Sugiura

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Social Contagion or Self-Containment? The Influence of Echo and Narcissus on The Picture of Dorian Gray, Caroline Triolo

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Remembering Fae Richards, Inventing Fae Richards: Archival Imagination in Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman, Erin Walsh

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The Phenotypic and Molecular Correlates of Colicin Resistance in E. coli, Helen Wang

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“Kind and Firm:” Assessing Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices for Children with Autism in a Rehabilitation Center in China, Xiyu Wan

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“The Song and the Weeping”: Death, Love, and Gifts in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Melinda White

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Fundamentally I am Chinese: Habsburg Jewish Authors between Antisemitism and Sinophobia 1900-1918, Fiona Wu

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Chan-Lam Oxygen-Cyclopropylation of Aliphatic Alcohols, Miranda Wu

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Site-Specific Protein-Polymer Conjugation with Activated Ester Polymers for Targeted Cancer Therapy, Jiyun Zhang

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Private or Public Support? The Impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme on Intergenerational Support in Rural China, Zixuan Zhang

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Development and Analysis of a Quasi Two-Dimensional Numerical Model for a Coaxial Geothermal Heat Exchanger, Xinyue Zou

Honors Projects and Theses from 2021

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Our great curse : negative partisanship and social polarization in the United States, Molly St. Clair Aber

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Gendered impacts of climate change on labor force participation in India, Prachi Adhikari

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Constructing assembly scaffolds for viral data in the protein data bank, Sakina Ali

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The enduring life of Black art : looming expectations and Freestyle's aesthetics of aliveness, Camille Gallogly Bacon

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Describing the geometry of the ear canal from CT scans, Auden Pendar Balouch

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Addressing the scientific reproducibility crisis through educational software integration, Audrey Margaret Bertin

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Modern art and Yidish literature in interwar Paris : translating Wolf Wieviroka and Chil Aronson, Sarah Faye Biskowitz

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Computational and experimental protein engineering for targeted drug delivery, Jessica Bonsu

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The impact of weather shocks on employment outcomes : evidence from South Africa, Harriet Margaret Brookes Gray

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Analysis and design of a gimbaled thrust model rocket, Halle E. Brown

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ACT iCoach for undergraduates with disordered eating : feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary outcomes, Hallie Anne Brown

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At the intersection of patriarchy and empire : mothers and daughters in Salt and Document of flames, Quinn Lovely Bulkeley

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"You're exactly what I'd expect from the Confesh" : identity and catharsis in a digital space of localized anonymity, Abigail Camille Butera

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TimeTracks & TimeTrails, Camille Harker Butterfield

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It takes two : symbiont contributions to the sea anemone (Exaiptasia pallida) stress response, Quinton Oliver Celuzza

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Remembering state violence and resistance : contested memories of the Gwangju Uprising in South Korea, 1980-2021, Jeanne Cho

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Life on a shellfish : the diversity and community dynamics of Epizoic foraminifera, Adena Beth Collens

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Irish American identity and its fluidity : a study in culture, politics and its evolution, Maeve Brenna Conway

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"We shall express our darker purpose" : curious intimacy between audience and antagonists in Shakespeare, Elizabeth Eileen Cronin

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Food for thought : an investigation into sortals and object individuation in preverbal infants, Jenna Lea Croteau

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Elemental tungsten partitioning in the SE Greenland Archean Thrym Complex, Victoria Eileen Devlin McLoughlin

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Machine learning approaches to multi-animal behavioral analysis, Annie Aurora Dobroth

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Engineering a cancer vaccine, Yacine Diama Fall

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The gendered healthcare wealth gap : examining the correlation between gender bias in healthcare, chronic pain, and the gender wealth gap, Isabel Corbett Fields

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Concerning small data : body mass index as a case study of normative implications embedded in data, Dayln Elizabeth Gillentine

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Glow with the flow : visualizing bioelectric patterns and their relationship to axis determination in Danio rerio, Elora Celine Greiner

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Evaluating redox conditions during the Cambrian SPICE event, western Newfoundland, Canada, Amy Patricia Isabelle Hagen

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La medicina narrativa : un confronto fra l'Italia e gli Stati Uniti, Juliet Therese Jarrell

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The space in between : bridging borderlands identity and the transgender movement, Sky Karp

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Oh shit : centering nonbinary voices in the trans bathroom debate, Sam Krauss

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Cool girl : an album of original songs : annotated lyrics, production notes and documentation, Shannon Joy Lambert

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Finding distances between quantal states in a chaotic system, Yuxin Lan

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Machiavelli's theory of virtue, Juanchu Li

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Attention-based handwritten text recognition with spatial transformer networks, Sophie Milan Li

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Of the grassland with no boundaries which no fire can burn down : a studio art honors thesis exhibition, Lucy Xiaochuan Liu

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Mining the masquerade : Angela Calomiris, queerness, and the Cold War, Ruby Treinen Lowery

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"A few good murders" : the case of the golden age "cozy" mystery, Hyla Maddalena

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Discerning demographics : biodiversity of testate amoebae based on analyses of single-cell transcriptomes, Clara Rojan Malekshahi

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Tentacular thinking : Medusa in and of the Anthropocene, Lilian Rose McCarthy

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Historicizing Coming out : a cinematic encounter between national heterosexuality and gay identity in East Germany, Madeline Grace Michels

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Bilattices and the logic of goal modeling, Isabel Grace Montesanto

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Who is in charge? : exploring the connection between connexin dependent bioelectrics and morphogen signaling during axis determination in zebrafish, Janeth Mora-Martinez

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Between a cell and a hard place : mechanisms of shell-building in the Arcellinid testate amoebae, Naomi K. Ostriker

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Investigating strike-slip faulting parallel to the Icelandic plate boundary using boundary element models, Anna Elaine Rogers Pearson

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Environmental inequality in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region of China, Morgan Corinne Peirce

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The Jews of Kippenheim, Germany 1852-1940, Emma Catherine Platte