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 2020
Testate amoeba community diversity across space and time in New England bogs, Olivia Katherine Dufour
Ecclesiastical reform and church-and-state relations in Ukraine (1917-1930), Caroline Stephanie Dunbar
Hydrophilic Si(100) with varying typography via post-hydrosilylation functionalization, Yuhui Du
Investigating carceral systems : prisons and immigration detention in the United States, Alexandra Sophia Eleazar
Developing Transmedia Engineering Curricula using Cognitive Tools to Impact Learning and the Development of STEM Identity (RTP), Glenn Ellis, Jeremiah Pina, Rebecca Mazur, Al Rudnitsky, Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Isabel Huff, Sonia Ellis, Crystal M. Ford, Kate Lytton, and Kaia Claire Cormier
No refuge : decline of a northern forest herb, Clintonia borealis, at multiple sites along a broad elevational gradient suggests impacts of recent climate change, Ashley Marie Fishbein
Photomediated post-fabrication modification of azlactone-functionalized gels for the development of stimuli-responsive hydrogel actuators, Emily Ruth Fitzgerald
Characterization of a Brugia malayi POU-homeodomain transcription factor binding to its cognate promoter, McKayla Elizabeth Ford
Authenticity and its attendant myths : a case against the isolated individual, Kendall Futrell
Chan-Lam O-methylation of aliphatic alcohols and phenolic n-heterocycles, Uma Bhagwat Gaffney
"Anticipatory illuminations" : the performance of the Jewish sabbath as queer futurity, Liel C. Green
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
Fiddler crab burrowing and oil polution alter greenhouse gas fluxes from salt marsh soil, Adrianna K. Grow
"I don't want everyone to vote"¹ : voter disenfranchisement and suppression in the American electorate, Emma Rose Guyette
A long distance interstellar dance : testing the physical association of an extremely-wide substellar companion to a nearby M-dwarf binary, Michaela Susan Guzzetti
Olympic legacy 2016 : the violence of peacekeeping in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Abigail Megan Hanna
Simone Weil's theology of mathematics, Halley Turpin Haruta
Algorithmic (in)explainability : causality and machine learning, You Jeen Ha
Ecological distribution of testate amoebae in New England, Evelyn Grey Elizaabeth Hoffman
"Pickled punks" and "God's unknown children" : fetal and infant specimen display in twentieth-century American sideshows, Sara Ann Hollar
Are you my mother? : revolutionary reimaginings of the Mother Nature archetype in Salvage the bones and The bean trees, Patricia Jane Jewell
Dynamic model of coaxial ground-source geothermal system for the Smith College field house, Yihui Jiang
Multifaithism : the new religion of the American college, a case study at Smith College, Kimraj Kaur Jordan
Building Gethen, Sinead Eliane Joyce-Farley
Genomic analysis of bacterial resistance to narrow spectrum antibiotics : linking phenotypes to genotypes, Nancy Yoobin Jung
"No daylight between" : temporality, monstrosity, and the possiblity of empire in Israel and the United States, Clara Allene Kaul
Twang identification in American folk & country music, Jessica Nichole Keast
Disease resistance variance in the Great Star Coral, Emma R. Kelley
Investigating the effect of pH on amino-propofol's function in ion channel modulation and fluorescence labeling in vitro, Eun Kyung Kim
Like mother, like daughter? : evidence from Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam of the impact of mothers' educational attainments on daughters' schooling, Isabel X. Kitschelt
The "bound"-aries of femininity : constructing and performing womanhood on and off-stage, Claire Lillian Lane
"He saw me as a person first and then a student" : student and teacher perspectives on earning respect, Sarah Lynne Leandro
Species comparison of androgen receptor density and neuron abundance in the lumbar spinal cord of frogs, Kerry Marie LeCure
The influence of mobile communication use on homesickness and autobiographical memories in college students, Sylvie Jean Lednicky
Gender and jet fuel : extractivism, social reproduction, and capitalism in crisis, Shea L. Leibow
Investigating forebrain development : robo4 cell guidance, forebrain cellular heterogeneity, and neural crest immigration, Mackenzie Patricia Heffernan Litz
The effect of state characteristics and cybercrime legislation on Internet crime, Emily Yunfeng Liu
Site-specific protein-polymer conjugation for targeted cancer therapy, Yanxuan Li
Solvent environments of secondary organic aerosol mimicking solution, Emmaline Reed Longnecker
The unspoken thing : a novella, Emily Jaie Luong
Computational analysis of in vivo circadian bioluminescence in freely moving mice, Blanca Cristina Martin Burgos
Lev Shestov : faith, reason, and experience, Avery M. Masters
Effects of prenatal folic acid exposure on social behavior in prairie voles, Taylor Eve McCain
Feeding-induced circadian disruption in the liver : towards a non-invasive method of observing circadian disruption in peripheral tissues, Eleanor Evans McCartney
Using gravitational-wave signals to model the distribution of spin across the binary black hole population, Simona Jane Miller
The effects of carbon source and oxygen availability on gene expression in uropathogenic Escherichia coli, Grace M. Moore
Cosmologies of healing in Ceremony and The salt eaters, Kathleen Frances Mullins
Analyses of genome structures in testate amoeba (Arcellinida, Amoebozoa) uning single-cell 'omics and flurescence microscopy, Ketty Munyenyembe
Defining the role of the reelin signaling pathway in neurogenesis and behavior - a zebrafish model of autism spectrum disorders, Grace Kathryn Nevil
Foraminifera over time, space, and in response to temperature, Giovanna M. Noe-Wilson
Estimating microbial diversity of toxin producing bacteria from soil using cellular automata, Aoi Ogawa
A statistical exploration of accretion rates in substellar objects, Anne Peck
Mapping the evolutionary history of genes along chromosomes in diverse eukaryotic parasites, Dana Ragooanan
Validity and utility of wireless wearable heart rate assessment : comparisons with wired, subjective, and salivary measures, Julia R. Riccardi
Corrupted : evolution of identity and the body in Gothic literature, Renée Rienecker
Queer immigration : Brazilian women navigating race & citizenship in the United States, Marcela Rodrigues-Sherley
Characterizing the role of meteorin as a midline signaling molecule for developing the embryonic CNS, Madeline Marie Ryan
Understanding the role of slow slip events in the Cascadia earthquake cycle, Juliette Paule Saux
Predicting impending failure of an electro-chemical sensor, Junyuan Shi
From bustles to bras, 1851-1939 : honors thesis and exhibition catalog, Allison Lora Smith
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
The effect of human body temperature on the proteo-transcriptomic responses of commensal and pathogenic Escherichia coli, Isidora Stanković
Authoress of the world : womanhood in Margaret Cavendish's writings, Jemma Kathryn Stephenson
Examining which factors influence exhaustivity in children's answers to wh-questions, Bethany Mary Stoddard
Effects of dim evening light on circadian rhythms and behavior, Selma Tir
Family matters : political mobilization among evangelical Protestants and Latter-day Saints, Rachel Carr Venator
Music from my living room : an album for the Smith community, Sarah Elizabeth Vespa
Automatically merging evolving goal models, Yilin Wang
Automatically merging evolving goal models, Yilin Wang
An encoder-based soft optical waveguide sensor pair for contact force detection and localization, Yuhan Wen
The Jews of Bukhara : from ancient beginnings to the present day, Shoshana Beth Werblow
Analysis of neurolenin bioactivity in adult Caenorhabditis elegans and Dirofilaria immitis, Grace Caroline Wessels
Synthesis and base pair opening kinetics of the Spiroimminodihydantoin lesion, Ruby C. Wu
Development of a tandem Diels-Alder/Pauson-Khand reaction strategy for the synthesis of a tetracyclic steroid core, Eve Yuanwei Xu
Metabolites prediction in multiple studies using machine learning, Ziwei Zang
Nucleosomal base excision repair of spiroiminodihydantoin lesions initiated by formamidopyrimidine DNA glycosylase, Linghe Zhang
Honors Projects and Theses from 2019
The impact of homesickness on autobiographical memories in first-generation college students, Mathena Alexis Abramson
Does a higher minimum wage reduce poverty rates?, Sarah Elizabeth Albert
Modeling racially disproportionate language on Twitter during NFL game play, Julianna Grace Alvord
Retrospective financial analysis of the mercury and air toxics standards compliance costs, Haleigh M. Anderson
Visiones en el horizonte : la liminalidad y su expresión en tres novelas cubano/americanas, Sarah Denni Arnold
American dreamin' : critical perspectives on race and Black capitalism in Jay-Z's 4:44, Aliya Bailey
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
Rethinking imperialism : globalization, trade and tea in the Qing Dynasty, Kendra Donovan Bonde
Characterizing phenol analog modulation of GABAa receptor currents as novel anesthetic agents, Lauren Chelsea Bondi
The effect of gestational folic acid exposure on offspring behavior, Natalie Simone Bourdon
Digital signaling processing with FPGAs, Meng Cao
Visualizing jet lag in the suprachiasmatic nucleus and liver, Guinevere Grace Connelly
Status, threats, and restoration of acroporid corals throughout the Caribbean, Sabrina Cordero
Environmental compliance through the early environmental coordination checklist (EECC) : a case study in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, Beatrix Mae Dalton
Screening for undersized culverts : an analysis of estimated characteristics, Molly Rose Day
Toxicity and mutagenicity evaluation of antifilarial neurolenin derivatives as potential drug candidate for lymphatic filariasis, Lydia Pedrick DeAngelo
Beats of the new political age : hip hop and youth political engagement in contemporary Senegal, Aminata Diallo
Instant saviors (just add water), Sofia Evelina Engelman
To break a beautiful thing : a novella, Ellena L. Erskine
Investigating the relationship between the structure and function of the dynein microtubule binding domain, Sarah Jane Flaherty