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 2016
Experiments investigating retention of sodium in peatlands affected by road-salt pollution, Hannah Ruth Francis
Bangladeshi Muslim immigrant experiences in the U.S., Shabia Furkan
Reconceiving environmental justice : a Foucauldian discussion on power, green governmentality and the formation of subjects, Gabriella Veronika Grange
Effects of Withania somnifera on human glycine receptor, Elizabeth Sullivan Halpin
Copper mediated C-H methylation with methylboronic acid, Clare Elizabeth Jacobson
Multiple object tracking using convolutional neural network in wireless sensor networks, Hee Jin
Migration versus mutualism : can the small-ranged endemic plant Rhododendron catawbinse form specialized ericoid mycorrhizae with soil fungi north of its native range?, Elena Maria Karlsen-Ayala
Investigating varied reactivity in aerosol-mimicking solutions, Claire Elena Keller
Analysis of creatine kinase expression and regulation throughout C2C12 myogenesis, Arcadia June Kratkiewicz
Peas in a pod : environment and ionization in green pea galaxies, Heather Rose Kurtz
The morality of commercial surrogacy : an assessment with evidence from India, Nikila K. Lakshmanan
Sensational internationals : gender, sexuality, and foreignness in Ruth Landshoff-Yorck's Die Vielen und der Eine, Dinah Rose Lensing-Sharp
The prospects of ZnO in metal oxide sensors for chemical sensing, Sara Lorić
The role of the orexin/hypocretin system in the incubation of alcohol craving in rats, Olivia Gilman Mallari
The evolution of androgen receptor distribution in the spinal cord to support specialized sexual displays : a comparative analysis using a foot-flagging frog, Staurois parvus, Gina Elizabeth Mantica
Good against goods : viewing health and its social determinants through a Platonic lens, Marianna Victoria Mapes
Iskra : a folk opera in two acts, Jessica Leigh Marlor
Methylation of oxygen nucleophiles using dimethyl carbonate : mechanistic studies, Noelia Margarita Martinez-Muñoz
Disrobing modesty : how female practitioners articulate Christian womanhood in the blogoshere, Gabrielle Sara Martin
Developing a molecular method for estimating the effective population size of ciliate morphospecies Chilodonella uncinata, Cynthia Jepkosgei Masai
Archaeocyathan reefs and chemostratigraphy of the lower Cambrian wood canyon formation in Titanothere Canyon, Death Valley, California, Teresa Claire McGann
Extraction and functionalization of Neurolinens from Neuoleana lobata, Catherine Patricia McGeogh
The synthesis and use of stimuli-responsive cross-linkers to prepare PVDMA hydrogels, Isabella Frances McNamara
Jorge Amado in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics : publications and popularity, Victoria Melnikova
Dancing westwards : depictions of the American west in the mid-twentieth century ballets of Balanchine and de Mille, Katelynn Anne Mikulka
Shooter bias and sunk costs in a policing context : using an escalation of commitment framework to investigate shooting decisions, Martha Miller
A life cycle assessment of packaging for Medtronic's veress needle, Dakota R. Murray
Design and testing of a miniature PEM fuel cell stack, Julianna Pei-Hsien Niu
Exploring stigma, personhood and citizenship among persons with disability in urban Ghana, Enu Beula Otsyina
Analysis of two approaches for inferring lateral gene transfer in the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum, Zuliat Owoade
Product characteristics in a pilot scale biomass torrefier with heated screw conveyance, Anna Hester Partridge
Hoarding behavior and sleep patterns in a college sample, Margaret Sophie Peebles-Dorin
Why aren't all of the Black students sitting together? : Black student intra-racial dynamics on a college campus, Gabirelle Louise Peterson
Assessing the biodiversity and discovering evidence of RNA editing in testate (shelled) amoebae, Natalie Abigail Phillips
Towards a Black women's romantic ideology : theorizing Black women's cultural production in the 1980/90s, Jocelyn Mitzi Proietti
Exploring modifications and identification of neurolenin as a potential anti-filarial drug candidate for Lymphatic filariasis, Meghna Purkayastha
The poetics of space : a close study of Lucille Clifton's Aesthetic and ethic, Margaret Rose Rathbun
Shooter bias and eye gaze, Rachel E. Silveria
(Dis)respect in the urban classrooms : teachers and an ethic to care, Alexandra Francis Singer
Protein engineering for receptor-mediated drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier, Natalie Durham Sorkin Smith
Nuestro cabello : personal and social significance of hair among Afro-Cuban women, Miari Taina Stephens
Size matters not : the importance of sRNAs in adaptive thermoregulation in uropathogenic Escherichia coli, Madeleine Sutherland
The phylogeography and cytogenetics of Rhipsalis baccifera : the cactus that made it to the Old World, Elizabeth Ann Tan
The said and the unsayable : silence in Jane Austen's Sense and sensibility, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion, Laura Evelyn Thurber
"The wife, the widow" : narratives of grief in contemporary American memoir, Madison McFadden Tierney
Metaphysical free will and contemporary science, Gillian Ariela Tisdale
Drinking motives and alcohol expectancies as predictors of high-risk drinking behavior prior to and during the college transition, Cara Celine Tomaso
Investigating the evolution of Wolbachia spp.- derived genes in the genome of Wolbachia-independent filarial nematodes, Eirini Tsekitsidou
A study of geomorphologic and geochemical evidence for prehistoric floods from Paulina Lake in Newberry Crater, Central Oregon, Heather Elizabeth Upin
Security and privacy issues in the smart grid : a decentralized approach, Angela Upreti
Cam girls, Elizabeth Adeline Slavet Walber
Characterization of cyclohexanol modulation of GABA[subscript A], Erin M. Walch
Interpreting negated adjectives : a developmental perspective, Xiaozhou Wang
The institutional correlates of enrollments of international students, Nutcha Wattanachit
Electric power system design for miniature proton exchange membrane fuel cells, Yijin Wei
Comrades and rivals : farmers and foxhunters in nineteenth-century Leicestershire, Madison Capron White
Aggregate Level Biographical Outcomes for Gay and Lesbian Movements: Collective Identity, Lifecourse, and Generations, Nancy Whittier
Towards In silico protein surgery : handling errors and working with the protein data bank, Victoria E. Wolf
Wideband acoustic immittance measurements : effects of age, gender, race, and equipment, Yezhezi Zhang
Client emotional response and psychotherapy progress : a case-based approach, Yiwen Zhu
Honors Projects and Theses from 2015
From fall to leap : the journey of faith in the works of C.S. Lewis, Shalini Asirini Abayasekara
Microbes in the dark : molecular analyses of marine communities below the photic zone, Jessica Nicole Andrade
Distress associated with non-acquisition in hoarding disorder, Elizabeth Barlow Atkins
Methods for generating and identifying (3,6) sparse graphs, Pratistha Bhattarai
La questione dell'identità moderna in Svevo e Pirandello, Emily Augusta Biffis
From monster to maiden : Archaic and classical depictions of the Greek gorgon in art and literature, Olivia Simpson Blais
Cycles of fury : revenge and the underworld in Senecan tragedy, Chloe Bollentin
Assessing seasonal photosynthetic function of dominant species post-clearcut, Kyle Acadia Boyd
Outbreak control : designing a PCR-based diagnostic test for Dengue virus, Katharine Stuyvesant Brien
O(s) livro(s) de Aristides Fernández : oito contos e um comentario, Ingrid Brioso-Rieumont
Novel dimensions in visual media for understanding the biological world : illustrating the effects of aquatic pollution in three case studies, Anna Marie Campbell
1D and 2D ¹H NMR spectroscopy studies of mutagenic DNA duplexes, Sophia C. Carroll
The cost of capital : a philosophical exploration of commodification, Jana Chan
DNA-small molecule catalyst conjugates for site-selective chemistry in complex contexts, Drew Elizabeth Colman
Rethinking the antagonistic role of "invasive weeds" within plant communities : a case study from the Chihuahuan Desert, Samantha Jo Danguilan
Performing liminality : embodying disability and trans identity onstage, Ana Ruffino Darrow
Flow simulation software : an evaluation and comparison, Nicole L. DeChello
The Smiffenpoofs : a history of female a cappella, Abigail Francis Duquette
Revisiting forbidden lines in T Tauri stars, Wanda Feng
Modeling rapid phyllotactic transitions in Magnolia x soulangiana 'Verbanica', Madeline Christine Franz
Tolerance and trade : multiculturalism in seventeenth century New Amsterdam, Tess Kathleen Frydman
Seeing it in the mind's eye : the role of imagery in imaginative resistance, Janelle Marie Gagnon
The Koyal's cage : marriage, independence and Islam in 21st century India : inspirated by Henrik Ibsen's A doll's house, Afreen Seher Gandhi
Suicide, or the politics of life and death, Mercer Elizabeth Gary
China's thirst for African oil : trade and aid implications of Beijing's Africa policy, Ella Alexa Genasci Smith
Engineering microproteins targeting the interface of tumor biomarkers Mesothelin and MUC16, Katia Sophia George
A provenance study of ancient Corinthian pottery by non-destructive chemical analysis, Rebecca Frances Gerdes
Under pressure : compressed air system analysis for Dresser-Rand's Olean facility, Alison Jo Grady
Exploring the relationship between anthropomorphism, loneliness and hoarding disorder, Lucy-Lynn Ming Graves
Petrography, geothermobarometry and metamorphic history of metapelites from the Central Ruby Range, southwest Montana, Clémentine Hamelin
Community center to concert hall : youth outreach, classical music publics, and institutional discourse, Anna Lee Hirschi
Developing synthetic multi-fluorescence techniques in S. cerevisiae for single molecule microscopy, Malayna A. Hocker
Potential effects of eastern hemlock decline on the hemlock-associated liverwort Bazzania trilobata, Michelle Renee Jackson
Intersecting identities and shooter bias, Laura Christine Keenan
Simultaneously controlling nanoscale morphology and chemical functionality in the Si(100) surface, Minhee Kim