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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 2019

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Analysis of pre-extinction archaeocyathan reefs of the lower Cambrian Harkless formation, southwest Nevada, Olivia Renton Leadbetter

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Narrative medicine in Victorian novels : how fictional doctors understand the medical profession, Sarah Yelin Lee

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Gender and temporality : a study of Virginia Woolf and Ali Smith, Eloise R. Lindblom

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Investigating the application of graph clustering algorithms in network neuroscience, Tingshan Liu

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Design and life cycle cost of a vertical ground source heat exchange system for the Smith College field house, Xinyi Li

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Refining the application of a proxy carbon price for Smith College, Zhuoran Li

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Identity and representation in the All-State circuit : a critical inquiry of American high school concert band repertoire, Cas Ford Martin

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A tale of two Italys : immigration, economics, and the rise of the Italian far-right, Hannah Louise Mathews

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Microbial metazoan interaction and the generation of microbial fabrics, Molly Megan

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Creating consciousness : technology and characterization at Walt Disney Animated Studios and Pixar Animated Studios, Alison Shay Meneghetti

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Domestic violence begets Black women's incarceration : Marissa Alexander's 20-year sentence for non-fatal self-defense, Michaella Mentu

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Trafficking in multiracialist politics : American visual culture in the 21st century, Nichola W. Metzger

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"Transmuee me senti toute" : queer transgender perspectives on the works of Chrstine de Pizan, T. Miller

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Hydrogel formation via photocontrolled ring opening reactions of poly(2-alkenyl azlactone)s with photocaged primary amines, Autumn M. Mineo

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Detection of a putative Brugia malayi POU-homeodomain transcription factor binding to its congate promoter, Hafsa Mohamud Mire

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The effect of an anabolic steroid on the proteome of developing muscle cells, Emily Ann Morris

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Engineering proteins for receptor-mediated transport across the blood-brain barrier, Naomi Murata

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The association between stress, body composition and diet quality among UMass students, Insia Naqvi

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The abundance of animals in lower Cambrian carbonates of the western United States : ǂb the effects of the archaeocyath extinction on benthic communities, Rhiannon Zoe Nolan

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The role of bioelectrics during early embryonic development in Danio rerio, Andrea Gabrielle Olivera

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Examining the genome content and life cycles of Arcellinid testate amoebae : on the hunt for silicon transporter homologs, Emma Gabrielle Östlund-Sholars

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Effects of aging and omega-3 fatty acid diet on medical gastrocnemius muscle proteome, Marguerite Aurora Pacheco

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The effects of humanitarianism and cold war media on American international adoption, Eden X. Phillips

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Computing principal lines of curvature on polyhedra, Zoë Camille Riell

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Them what brung you : a full length play, Tanya Ritchie

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Designing a telepresence robot for the classroom, Macarena Alejandra Rojas Bustamante

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Elucidating the potential symbiotic relationships between ciliates and bacteria, Simran Sahni

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Other words for the otherworld : the artist and madness in Nabokov's American novels, Julia B. Smith

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Embodied toxicity in the plasticene : BPA, BPS and the political ecology of endocrine disruption, Athena Maria Sofides

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Backwards in high heels : gender and candidate priorities in the 2018 elections, Emma Louise Stewart

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Disrupting notions : ameliorating romantic jealousy through compersion, Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen

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Modeling the effects of meteorin on the development of Zebrafish : a gene association model for autism spectrum disorder, Raegan Dae Stokes

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La Reina, la Loca : the medieval 'madness' of Queen Juana I., Erin A. Sulla

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Imagining the family : neoliberalism and welfare's end in the United States, Rebecca Claire Tibbitts

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Priming ambiguous images : ǂb are facial expressions special?, Elizabeth Grace Van Winkle

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Optimizing collection purification and characterization of salivary dopamine and its metabolites as biomarkers for Parkinson's disease, Josselyn Sofia Vergara Cobos

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Perceiving meaning, Alina S. Wang

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Grains of wheat, Abigail Claire Weaver

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Modern benthic foraminifera of Carbla Beach, Shark Bay, Western Australia: population ecology and taphonomy, Daniel Eli Wood

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A method for verifying RNA integrity in mosquito nucleic acid extraction, Bethlehem Asnakew Yigzaw

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Design of a controllable turntable for an FPGA-based image processing system, Yuqing Zhu

Honors Projects and Theses from 2018

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Exploring the origin, diversity, and phylogeny of cultivated lettuce (Lactuca sativa), Youngjoo Ahn

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Reelin in autism spectrum disorders : an investigation of reelin-disabled signaling in zebrafish neurogenesis and disease, Katrina G. Anderson

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"Brave new world" : envisioning sites of queer futurity and resistance in The tempest, Marianna Eleftheria Apostolakis

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Effects of mineral weathering and acid mine drainage on Pco2 in Davis Mine Brook and Maxwell Brook Watersheds, Rowe, Ma., Casey L. Armanetti

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Conjugating viral antigens to tumor-targeting proteins toward a novel immunotherapy, Samantha Rose Baierl

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Sex and species differences in spinal motor neuron androgen receptor expression in frogs, Aditi Ramya Balasubramanian

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Chan-Lam aerobic methylation of phenols, Mairead Elizabeth Bartlett

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The construction of a noise eater utilizing a PID controller and subsequent modifications using neural networks, Isabelle Elise Bunge

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Don't take it at face value : a case study on facial expressivity, emotional coherence, and posttraumatic stress disorder, Julianna Rose Calabrese

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The site specificity of oxidation on water etched Si(100) surface, Xinyuan Chen

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Graph-based matching for word spotting in handwritten documents, Ji Won Chung

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An analysis of citizenship status as a tool to regulate migrant labor streams, Celeste M. Clerk

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The YWCA and US imperialism in the Philippines : whiteness, racialized affect, and anti-Black stereotypes, Illaria R. Dana

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Characterization of proteins engineered to bind mesothelin for targeted cancer therapy, Daniela Amoakohene Deny

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Design of a small unmanned aircraft for surveying of agriculture, Annick Jade Dewald

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Design of an arduino-based proportional-integral-derivative controller to automate pH control, Keqin Ding

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Navigating of microtubule obstacles by ensembles of dynein, Amalia Rose Driller-Colangelo

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Physician attitudes in treating commercial sex workers, Sarah Eleanor Evans

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Negotiating LGBTQ+ identity at a historically women's college, Jessica Elianna Feinberg

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Eyes wide shut : the intersectional effects of gender and race of target photos on African American men and women's recognition memory, Jada Rene Flint

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Expression cloning and analysis of a putative Brugia malayi POU-homeodomain transcription factor, Nicole Frumento

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Telling fortunes and cutting purses : the Romani in Rome : early seventeenth century art, theater and society, Madeleine Gaines Greaves

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Cannibalism in Blepharisma americanum : a genome comparison, Bethaney Gulla-Devaney

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Using organocarbonates as safer electrophilic reagents, Bezawit Sirak Habtesellassie

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An ecosystem analysis of legacy heavy metal contamination in central New Hampshire : regional atmospheric deposition versus localized impacts from historic mining, Emma Elizabeth Harnisch

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Functionalization of neurolenins isolated from Neurolaena lobata, Peyton Higgins

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Novel verb learning via overheard speech : a study of transitive, intransitive, and dative verbs, Emily Kathleen Jackson

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A treatment for Huntington's disease : dance movement therapy through the lens of predictive processing and Choreographic analysis of Active inference, Aubrey Sperling Johnson

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The teratogenic effects of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on craniofacial development, Emilie Suzanne Jones

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I am supermentsh : searching for the Jew in the superhero comic book, Hannah Sophia Lavine Kass

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Korean Shakespeares : formation and disintegration of the traditional family, Hee Young Kim

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The what and the why of wh-movement in the child's grammar : a new perspective through epistemic and deontic modality, Jessica Ann Kotfila

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Impacts of infrastructure spending on interstate migration : empirical evidence over eleven years, Natalia Janina Kreciglowa

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Mothering her memories : original script and directing notes, Zoe Rose Kriegler-Wenk

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Sacral king to Augural emperor : divination and Roman transformations from Numa to Augustus, Katherine Margaret Krygowski

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A novel quantitative PCR assay for the detection of Ross River virus, Rebecca Anne Kuzma

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Using the small molecule nobiletin to modulate circadian rhythms in human cancer cells and mice, Caroline Elisabeth Labriola

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Design and fabrication of a rotomolder machine, Shaneil Joy Lafayette

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Characterizing 2,6 Di-sec-Butylphenol and 2,6 Di-tert-Butylphenol modulation of GABAa receptor currents, Madison Page Leet

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Immigration and voting patterns : evidence from the U.S. presidential and congressional elections, Katherine Rose Lemiesz

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#InstagramObsessed : the effects of Instagram on self-objectification, Sophia Hui Yu Liu

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Tools for understanding taxicab and e-hail services use in New York City, Wencong Li

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Gaps and Rings in an ALMA Survey of Disks in the Taurus Star-Forming Region, Feng Long, Paola Pinilla, Gregory J. Herczeg, Daniel Harsono, Giovanni Dipierro, Ilaria Pascucci, Nathan Hendler, Marco Tazzari, Enrico Ragusa, Colette Salyk, Suzan Edwards, Giuseppe Lodato, Gerrit van de Plas, Doug Johnstone, Yao Liu, Yann Boehler, Sylvie Cabrit, Carlo F. Manara, Francois Menard, Gijs D. Mulders, Brunella Nisini, William J. Fischer, Elisabetta Rigliaco, Andrea Banzatti, Henning Avenhaus, and Michael Gully-Santiago

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Characterization and comparison of 2,6 Di-sec-butylphenol modulation of the GABAa and glycine receptors, Shuqi Mao

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Micromixer : a benchtop polymer mixer, Emily Matz

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Between Russia and the United States : concepts and conflicts of Jewish citizenship in the early twentieth century, Emily Alyse Mazza

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Exploring the evolution of Ramsey games, Theodore McCulloch

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Putting the "success" in succession : comparing dominant species in a deciduous forest isn't so "clear cut", Madeleine Ann Meadows-McDonnell

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Investigating the nature of mutualisms between Rhododendron seedlings and local versus novel communities of ericoid mycorrhizal fungi, Taryn Leigh Mueller

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Sedimentary redox geochemistry of the Lower Triassic Montney Formation, British Columbia, Chiza Ngachize Mwinde

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American Jewish anti-Zionism : a historical and contemporary analysis, Hunter Rose Myers

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Worlds beyond : follow-up observations and confirmation of K2 exoplanet candidates, Rachel Eileen O'Connor

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Elucidating testate amoeba biodiversity : an analysis of Hyalosphenia spp, Angela Colleen O'Donnell

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"When I need you, I shall send for you" : an analysis of Aksumite and Himyarite authority in an East Roman world, Katherine Ashley O'Hara

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"Superheroes aren't born - they're built" : an exploration of the interactions between technology and humanity in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Alexandra Helen Ostrowski Schilling

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No, stay : stories, Emma K. Pacchiana

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Designing a proxy carbon price strategy for Smith College, Breanna Jane Parker

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Ionization spectroscopy of beryllium, Carson O. Patterson

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Investigating the long-term effects of human land use on soil chemistry and forest vegetation, Linda A. Patterson