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 2014
Detecting flow separation over a bio-inspired patterned surface using a pressure sensor array, Lawren Lenore Gamble
Synthesis and chromatographic separation of the diastereomers of 2,6-Diethylcyclohexanol for application as a potential anesthetic, Alexandra Marie Gatsios
Thermodynamics of the frustrated triangluar Kagome lattice with Heisenberg spins, Kelsea Taylor Gill
Ooid formation at Pigeon Creek Delta, San Salvador Island, the Bahamas, Kiara Jeannelle Gomez
A quiet war : revising heroism in Tamora Pierce's Tortall, Tess Hailey Grogan
"Let us sing our victory, long live sound" : the Atlantic cultural revolution and the making of republics through song, Jennifer Augustina Guerin
Unsegmented character recognition on handwritten Syriac documents, Zella Harriet Henderson
Design and testing of DC/DC converters for miniature fuel cell power systems, Lauren Marie Hilton
The International Baccalaureate theatre program : the future of international theatre education, Jessica Danielle Hodder
The effects of predator cue and food availability on shell shape, thickness, and strength in the intertidal snails Littorina obtusata and L. saxatilis, Jessica Lynn Hopson
Renewable energy resource and critical load assessment index for Portobelo, Panama, Adrienne Rose Horne
A quantitative study of the effects of solvent properties on crystal growth morphology, Jinglin Huang
The gender wage gap among Montana state government employees, Isabel Sarah Huff
Myogenic carbohydrate transcriptome in murine C2C12 cells, Anagha Inguva
"Check two or more" : multiethnicity as choice and community, Sarah Elizabeth Iverson
Effects of the evolution of germline sequestration in metazoa on the tempo of interdomain lateral gene transfer, Lindy Mae Jensen
Safer methylation of oxygen nucleophiles using orthesters, Yuan Ji
Consanguineous marriage in the rapidly changing Middle East, Marie Victoria Jones
Examination of oxytocin receptor distribution and social behavior across a South American rodent clade, Yasmin Kamal
Nematode parasites of marine mammals : phylogenetic and statistical analysis of coevolution, Caroline Dana Keroack
Impact of climate change and invasive species on the chemistry of organic horizons in forested soils from western Massachusetts, Clarke Alexandra Knight
Limitations of an individual subject : Hans-Georg Gadamer's analysis of history and a self, Salome Kokoladze
Whole-transcriptome study of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli response to human body temperature (37° C), Da Yae Lee
The role of anemia in Interleukin-1β-induced fatigue, Hailun Li
Design of non-isothermal observers for miniature PEM fuell cells, Xinyi Liu
How physical space becomes symbolic capital : linking the built environment of neighborhoods to social life, Allison Lynn Logan
"The garment of flesh" : Mary Webb's rebellious bodies, Harriet Porter Low
"Being a part of something special makes you special, right?" : creating a Glee-ful community of Jewishness on American television, Jeanne Alison Lowrey
Demand response actualization in the electricity market, Jinjin Lu
The role of language in understanding second order relations : an eyetracker study, Katherine Starkman Margulis
The effects of IL-1β on sleep and circadian rhythmicity in an animal model of fatigue, Grace Brown McKay-Corkum
Investigating complex phytoplankton dynamics : pseudo-nitzschia spp. diversity and toxicity in the nearshore Gulf of Maine, Hanna Margaret Mogensen
Placing autonomy back in the patient's hands : a Kantian approach, Ellina Nektalova
Mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling during C2C12 myogenesis, Nhu Tran Nguyen
Breaking "the code" : art museums and the transmission of cultural capital, Dora Margery Novey-Buttfield
History on display : commemoration at the 1876 Centennial Exposition, Anna Olkovsky
Synthesis of strained cyclic alkynes using an intramolecular cobalt-mediated Nicholas reaction, Gloria Ortiz
Evaluating the electoral gender quota : women's substantive representation in Tanzania, Katie Lyn Paulson-Smith
Queering l'Italianità : la fioritura di un nuovo immaginario culturale, Francesca Marie Petronio
Studying accretion and wind in young stars with spectroscopy, Jennifer Nicole Podel
The synthesis and chromatographic separation of 2-ethyl-6-methylcyclohexanol, a possible anesthetic, Céleste Marie Pritchard
Neuroendocrinology of stress and social behavior in female meadow voles, Kara Mariah Reitz
Self-ambivalence and contingent self-worth : risk factors for OCD?, Laura Ann Romanowski
The changing politics of educational opportunity : federal education reform under Lyndon B. Johnson and George W. Bush, Anya Claire Rosenberg
Modeling the expansion and collapse of Bose-Einstein condensates, Lydia Ann Shannon
Design of a rain garden for Ziskind House, Julia Elizabeth Signell
Exploring indirect variables to understand the relationship between perfectionism's dimensions and depressive symptoms, Julia Christine Sisson
Predictors of early response to acceptance and commitment therapy (ACD in military personnel with posttraumatc stress disorder, Christina Song
The "Doom" of kings : Anglo-Saxon law as kingly literature, Abigail Ruth Sprenkle
Mechanistic studies in the base catalyzed methylation of carboxylic acids and phenols, Jessica Susan Sweeney
Analysis of natural products from Neurolama lobata as candidate antifilarial agents against the parasitic nematode Brugia pahangi, Kristine Louise Trotta
Development of a tandem Diels-Alder/Pauson-Khand strategy for the synthesis of tetracycles, Natalie Vaninov
Medicinal plants to medication : an investigation of the antifilarial potential of Centella asiatica on the parasite Brugia Pahang, Marika Witkus
"What love women to men may owe" : gender performativity and romantic relationships in Shakespeare's comedies, Oliva Elizabeth Woods
The beckoning of Black Baku : Russian foreign policy and interests in Azerbaijan, 1828-2014, Elisabeth Ercil Wroth
Identification of clock gene functional conservation between Caenorhabditis elegans and Brugia malayi, Jenna Irene Wurster
Love and self : considering the agency of Lin Daiyu in The dream of the red chamber, Lingyan Xu
The influence of culture on descriptions of realilty and regulatory focus, Xiaoye Xu
Investigation of "cold point" crystallization method, Zhouchangwan Yu
Silage treatment using constructed wetlands, Ansha Zaman
Elucidate the gene regulation in Clostridium lijungdahlii, Jing Zhang
Genome evolution of ciliates : alternative processing and genome structure of Chilodonella uncinata, Xinzhu Zhou
Catalytic methylation of oxygen nucleophiles by "C₃" and an oxidant, Jillian Zoglio
Honors Projects and Theses from 2013
Elite schools, exclusive spaces : symbolic violence in the residential system of an elite women's college, Dominique Meali'i Adams-Romena
Defying gender : men, women, and Christ in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve deus rex judaeorum, Veronica Lynn Adler
Efficient estimation of partially observed clustered data using multiple imputation, Kathryn Margaret Aloisio
The role of the dopaminergic system in fatigue, Bushra Anis
Seeing read : a one-woman show, Susanna I. Apgar
"Whither should I fly?" : The limitations of man, magic, language and the universe in Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, Emily Helen Atkinson
The effects of an estrogen receptor antagonist on the murine myoblast proteome, Annabel Gulliver Austin
Humanity in dementia : seeing beyond agency and stigma through Heidegger, Mohini Banerjee
Human nature in nature : David Grayson's broadening of the country book genre, Margaret Courtney Barthel
"I challenge anyone to take from me the independent life that I have given myself in the centuries and in the skies" : remembering and misremembering Louis Antoine Saint-Just, Chelsea Ann Bartholomew
Analysis of environmental damage to aircraft aluminum, Taylor Marie Beall
The ladies of Gilbert and Sullivan, Elizabeth Anne Biddle
Experimental investigation of garnet nucleation from chlorite + quartz mixtures at 8kbar pressure, Samantha Elizabeth Blanchett
"Every affectionate thought" : Ingrid Bergman, Roberto Rossellini, and the classical Hollywood scandal machine, Sonia Bessie Brand-Fisher
Discarded color, Naya Anne Bricher
"I'm a farmer too" : valuing women farmers in the Pioneer Valley, Sabrina Lynn Camboulives
Visual music : training students to see tones and hear colors to enhance music education, Marisa Laura Cheng
Language, inhibitory control and belief reasoning : a longitudinal study, Meng Chen
Acquisition of passives in Mandarin-speaking children, Cindy Chiang
2D-NMR spectroscopy of mutagenic DNA duplexes, Danielle Anne Chichester
Dummett's Wittgensteinean intuitionism, Ana Chkhikvadze
Modulation of GABAA receptor currents by stereoisomers of the novel anesthetic compounds : ǂb2, 6-dimethylcyclohexanol and 2, 6-diisopropylcyclohexanol, Luvana Chowdhury
"I was wondering what would break first" : violence of the post-9/11 superhero film, Kelsey Jane Cummings
The chelate effect : is it all entropy?, Lisa Stephanie Cunden
A DfX guide for engineering capstone students, Phoebe M. DeGroot
Consumer interface for real-time electrical demand, Geneviève May de Mijolla
"Holding a piece of the earth" : gendered space, field hockey embodiment and the politics of getting low, Sophia Demuynck
Adaptability of salt marsh restoration to sea level rise at Barros Bog, Sanita Dhaubanjar
Il nemico è l'ignoranza : poetics and politics in Ezra Pound's anthologies of the 1930s, Caroline Benson Evans
China's Xinjiang problem in Muslim diplomacy : is Islamization at fault?, Faizaa Fatima
When the "brown plague" showed up at the party : law and order in St. Pauli under the Nazi regime, Tosca Leonora Fischer
Cesare Pavese : dal confino al confine, Emilia Gambardella
On our backs with a bad attitude : a history of the first lesbian sex magazines, Kayla G. Ginsburg
Effects of elevated pCO2 on the calcification and morphological characteristics of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi : implications of ocean acidification, Christina L. Goethel
Exploring microbial biodiversity and ecology : testate amoebae in Hawley Bog, Adelaide Marie Gordon