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 2021
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
Developing a method to determine whether a shell-shaped cold atomic gas is a condensate, Quincy Webb
Transgressions, impermanence, and the humanity within Euripedes' Alcestis, Faith Julianna Marie Wykle
The home music environment for children, Ran Yan
The dream of the moon rocket the glory and the sorrow of belonging to the girls' culture : 1970 to 1990, Sowon Yoon
Escaping escapism : racebending as genre-bending in fanfiction, Katarina Feng Yuan
An investigation of the tolerance principle with two productive rules in child language acquisition, Shengqi Zhong
Perception of Mandarin nasal codas by Shanghainese-Mandarin bilingual listeners, Yanwan Zhu
Honors Projects and Theses from 2020
Creating finely tuned ultrathin polymeric films on silica via pre-functionalization and post-functionalization methods, Elizabeth Awuor Apiche
Modeling variation in brook trout and brown trout seasonal survival under a changing climate, Julia Kreth Barron
The construction of a noise eater using a neural network to stabilize laser power output, Caitlyn Marlowe Battle-McDonald
Constructing the female subject : narrative forms and the illusion of agency in Austen, James, and Wharton, Abigail Grace Bavaria
"Such silent misery, such secret despair" : female suffering and tragic "sensation" in Victorian fiction, Mayrose Carter Beatty
Modelling Parkinson's disease in cultured mouse salivary gland cells, Anna Jacoba Benton
The freaks are coming : bearded women, biopolitcs, and social reproduction in the 19th century freak show, Razi Esther Beresin-Scher
The connection between language and imitation abilities in three and four year olds, Lily Braedenrose Berlstein
The androgenic effects on motor neuron morphology, Andrea Botello
Extremely bright x-ray pulsar breaks all the rules, Alyssa Cassity
Some applications of quantum entanglement to cryptography, Wenqin Chen
Seedlings and photosynthesis : using response curves to inform carbon models, Alonwyn L. Clauser
Tales from our dusty, warped past : lensing environments of Planck-selected submillimeter galaxies observed with Gemini, Olivia Rae Cooper
Useless objects // useful things, Antonia Jane DaSilva
Book lovers and pot-boilers : representations of reading and writing in twentieth-century English feminine middlebrow fiction, Audrey L. Davis
Quantifying circadian disruption in mice with randomized light pulse regimens, Juliane Sophie Donahue Bombosch
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