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 2025
The Golden Rose: A New Adaptation of Calderón’s Life is a Dream, Allison Adams
'500 Years of Struggle': Colonial Legacies, NAFTA, and Indigenous Resistance in Mexico, Leah Allen
Age Related Impacts on Structural Magnetic Resonance Image Quality in Individuals with Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), Jacqueline R. Altman
“I Look for the Resurrection of the Dead” : Salvation, Faith, and the Flesh in Hans Holbein’s The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb, Rosemary Beck
Design of Reactive Azlactone Biomaterials for Applications in Targeted-Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering, Karen Bekhazi
Rings and Robots: Investigating a Structure-Property Relationship in a Chemically Fueled Actuator, Roz Borah
The Day After: A Framework for Governance in a Post-War Palestinian State, Fiona Dajani Brummer
Global Web Connectivity Block-page Detection Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches, Paola Calle
Under the Blue Triangle: the Young Women’s Christian Association, Modern Womanhood, & Body Politics in the Middle East, 1919-1932, Naomi Carpenter
Psychosocial Stressors, Health Behaviors, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Healthy Young Women, Vaishnavi Cherukupalli
EPR Spectroscopy of Co(II) Metalated DNA Nanostructures, Mary Colabella
Absolutely “Worth a Pitcher of Warm Spit”: Activity in the American Vice Presidency, Tallulah Costa
Building Well-defined Mixed Motor Ensembles With DNA Origami, Cassidy Creager
More Than a Game: Women’s Football as a Site of Resistance and Social Change, Reilly Curp
Exploring a Mechanism of Driving Disk Stars into the Galactic Bulge with Stochastic Fluctuations, Emma Davis
Assessing the Role of Retinal Input in Regulating Circadian Liver Rhythms, Nora Deyo
CRISPR-Cas9 Knock-out of Cactus Immunity Gene in Aedes albopictus Mosquitoes, Wanying Fan
GPR37: A Potential Regulator of Granule Cell Maturation in Hippocampal Neurogenesis, Franchesca Fernandez
Exploration of Creatine Kinase Proteoforms in C2C12 Myogenesis, Anna Ferronato Pimentel
From Latin Brevity to Anglo-Saxon Periphrasis: Poetic Compounding as a Native Old English Translation Strategy, Tenaya Fottrell
Study on Visual Features Influencing Vehicle Memorability in Multi-Camera Videos, Yuxin (Evelyn) Gao
The Effects of STAT3 Inhibitors on Myoblast Proliferation and Differentiation, Lucy Glueck
Microbial Interactions in the Gut-brain Axis: Potential to Alleviate Dysbiosis and Treat Alzheimer’s Disease, Sofia Guerra
A System of Cracks and Leaks: Reticence, Marginality, and Social Conventions in Tsai Ming-Liang's The River, Amel Guillory
Constructing the Trans Threat: Analyzing Rhetorical Constructions of Trans People in Anti-Trans Legislation, Malia Hanes
Personal Hell in the Harlem Renaissance: Gladys Bentley’s Sartorial Responses to Respectability, Saturn Johnson
Increasing Domain Adaptability for Machine Learning in Marine Underwater Image Processing, Kira Kaplan
High Precision Spectroscopy of the 2s2p 1P◦ 1 State in Neutral Beryllium-9 inside a Large Magnetic Field, Elinor Kay
Morphological and Molecular Investigations Into the Diversity and Life History of Uncultivable Foraminifera, Sri Tejasvi Kumaran
Defining Motivations to Collect: How similar are men’s and women’s collecting behavior?, Liberty Lehr
Engineering Azide Linkers into Fn3 Protein-Drug Conjugates for Targeted Cancer Therapy, Kristine Le
JWST spectroscopy reveals low AGN incidence in star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 3, Gena Levin
Fragments and Contradictions: The Life of Margaret Storrs Grierson and the Sophia Smith Collection, Roan Lord
DNA-Directed Palladium for Bioorthogonal Catalysis, Chuhang Luo
Into Touch with the Remote Past: Interactive Ancient Egyptian Pottery at Smith College, Yangyang Lyu
I Know What I Saw: Effects of Narrative Overlay on Event Completion and Event Extension, Marielle Maple
Towards a 16S rRNA Sequence Analysis Pipeline: Exploring Statistical Methods for Taxonomic Assignment, Elm Markert
Punishing the Pregnant: Fetal Personhood and the Creation of a Reproductive Caste, Taylor Masteralexis
Investigating the Role of Meteorin and Meteorin-like During Spinal Cord Development and Regeneration in Zebrafish, Lillian Mearsheimer
A Consistent Modeling of Dust Disks Around White Dwarfs, Ashley Messier
“Only the Form of Females”: The Making of 6th Century Byzantine Holy Women in and Beyond the Desert, Stella Metcalf
Unthought Grounds: A Method of Reading Giorgio Agamben’s Political Ontology, Abby Murphy
Chan-Evans-Lam O-Cyclopropylation of Aliphatic Alcohols, Pria Parker
Exploring the Diversity of Novel Paenibacilli Antagonists to Control Paenibacillus larvae, Isabella Pereira-Tosado
Exploring Nuclear Duality in Foraminifera: Insights from Single-cell ‘Omics and Fluorescence Microscopy, Sophia Perez
Physical Properties of a Low-Dimensional Organic Superconductor, Lily Phillips
Characterizing the Interaction between GPR37 and LRP6 in the Wnt Pathway, Anika Raghavan
Evaluation of Large Language Models for Parallel Program Generation, Ramsha Rauf
Tilability of Platonic Solid Nets in Multiple Dimensions, Heather Robertson
America’s First Environmental Court: Analyzing the Effect of Vermont’s Specialized Court System, Paige Rocha
Girl Scout Camp Songs as Folk Music Tradition, Tovey Rock
Global DNS Tampering Detection using Machine Learning and Heuristic Analysis, Larissa Savitsky
Spatiotemporal Interpolation of Wildfire Smoke-Derived PM2.5 Using Deep Neural Networks, Matilda Slosser
Une nosotres sin límites: la poesía cubana y cubana americana en la redefinición del papel de las mujeres, Ciana Socias
Diverse by Design?: A Critical Race Theory Analysis of Smith College Diversity Pamphlets, Cydney Socias
Investigation of an Iron-Catalyzed Cyclization Reaction for Naphthalene Synthesis, Breanna Sprague
Synthesis of Fluorine-Containing Neurolenin Derivative as a Potential Drug Candidate Against Lymphatic Filariasis, Hanyu Grace Su
DNA-Palladium Conjugates as Enzyme Mimics for Cargo Release, Anna-Lee Thompson
Saint Patrick, Satire, and Survival: Irish Poets Beyond Brehon Law, Amy Vo
Incentivizing Care: The Effects of Maintenance Payments on the Supply of Foster Families and the Quality of Care They Provide, Elizabeth von der Heydt
Student-AI Interaction: Exploring Trust, Efficiency, and Integrity in Educational Contexts, Yuhan Wang
Synthesizing Perspectives on Sesquiterpene Lactones: A Mechanistic Elucidation of Anthelmintic Properties in Neurolenins, Beatrice Wendling
Construction of a Blue Neutral Cesium-133 Magneto-Optical Trap, Madison Whitmore
Neural Correlates of Working Memory: Socioeconomic Disparities within Executive Function and the Role of Cognitive Stimulation, Natasha Woon
Two Perceptions of Collectivity, Wantong Wu
CRISPR-Cas9 Knockdown of a Sex Determination Gene in Aedes albopictus, Sabrina Xi
Chan-Evans-Lam C-H Benzylation of Arenes, Liangnuo Zhang
Islamic Learning Within and Beyond Sixteenth-Century West Africa: Trans-Regional Intellectual Exchange Through the Journey of Aḥmad b. al-ḥājj Aḥmad (1522-1583), Terra Yuqian Zhang
Intracellular Trafficking and Apoptosis Signaling of Engineered Fn3 Protein for Mesothelin-Targeted Cancer Therapy, Wenjun Zhao
Harnessing the Power of Superconductors for Energy Storage in Smith’s Geothermal District Heating System, Asmaa Zoheiri
Honors Projects and Theses from 2024
The Role of GPR37 in Glucose Metabolism, Mariam Ahmed
Characterizing the Trafficking of Fibronectin Type III Proteins Bound to 𝛂v𝞫3 Integrin Receptors Across the Blood Brain Barrier in vitro, Sheher-Bano Ahmed
Light Entrainment in Liver Clocks of SCN-Ablated Mice, Kuni Anderson
System Identification with Neural Networks in the Smith College Geothermal Project, Abigail Bowering
The Role of GPR37 in Late Stage Maturation of Granule Cell Neurons, Caroline Burke
Design of a Small-Scale Mechanical Recycling Shredder for a Textile Circular Economy, Bailey Butterworth
The Dead Keep Their Secrets, Sofia M. Catanzaro
Workers, Mothers, and Housewives: Soviet Women’s Equality in Rabotnitsa, 1977-1981, Claire Clusin
Mind and Matter: The Interplay of Interiority and Interiors in Jacob’s Room, Mrs. Dalloway, and To the Lighthouse, Camille McNamee Crossett
Murder at the American Dream: A Creative Exploration of Gendered Capitalism, AI, and the Cold War Nuclear Family, Isabel Cruz
Immunity Gene Knockout of Protein Inhibitor of Activated STAT (PIAS) in Aedes albopictus using CRISPR-Cas9, Jane Dawson
Horse Girls: An Exploration of Obsession, Power, and the Collective “We”, Vivian DeRosa
Modifying Hydrogel Platforms for Translational Medicine: Conjugation of Azlactone Hydrogels with Adhesive Peptides Using Amine Click Reactions, Sophia M. Dhanani
What Has Become of York?: Race Making and Statehood in Washington Territory, 1804-1889, Amelia Dolbeare
Shattering the Imperial Document: Fractured Speech in Contemporary American Experimental Longform Poetry, Emil Douville Beaudoin
Effects of Ear Canal Geometry on Normative Adult Wideband Acoustic Immittance (WAI) Measurements, Jingxin Jessica Feng
Functionalized PPFPA Films for Tunable Surface Wettability, Nell Fisher
Effects of Spanish Grammatical Categories on Gendered Beliefs in Early Childhood, Isabella R. Ford