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 2024
Self-Exploration in a Non-Dualistic Cosmology: The Roles of Mentors in Guunmong, Ruolin Demi Gong
A Stage of Their Own: Nandan Performers and the Reimagining of Gender, Sexuality, and Social Hierarchy in Republican China, Bailey Hightower
Honors Projects and Theses from 2023
Investigating Delays: What Temporal Variation in EPA Action under CERCLA Suggests About Equity, Jane Andrews
Aiding Users in Requirements Analysis Tasks Through Color and Filtering, Yesugen Baatartogtokh
The Role of Forced Migration in Non-Capitalist Accumulation Today, Hannah Beck
DNA-Palladium Conjugates for Targeted Drug Delivery in Biological Systems, Laura Birkart
Combinatorial Approaches for the Synthesis of Protein-Polymer Conjugates (PPC) for Drug Delivery, Ama Boamah
The Role of Cobalt-Complexed Alkynes in the Diels-Alder Reaction, Ashlyn Bohn
Cherry Pie: American Stories of Sexuality and Religion, Amelia Burton
Predictors of Domestic Sex Trafficking Susceptibility in a Nationwide Sample of Women, Betsy Ruth Button
Making Space: Collective Histories in Contemporary Installation Art from the Algerian Diaspora, Alexandra Casais
Differentiation of Boron Reagents within Chan-Evans-Lam Oxygen Methylation, Angela Chavez
"Supporting local agriculture and feeding people": Farmers’ Markets in Hampden County and Fresh Food for Low-Income Communities, R.C. Ettenger
Analog Horror: Authenticity, Immersion, and Hyperdiegesis in Digital Horror, Stevie Gatto
The Role of Cargo-Motor Connectivity in Transport by Ensembles of Dynein, Hana Hieshima
Effects of Jetlag on Skin Health, Pratima Niroula
Fishnet: a Homecoming, Paige Passantino
Visualizing Spaces of Non-Place in Japanese-Brazilian Film and Television, Emilia Helena Tamayo
Honors Projects and Theses from 2022
The Effect of a Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator on the Developing C2C12 Proteome, Ahlenne Abreu
not only will i stare, Ira Beare
Sexual Dimorphism in the Cranial Shape of Canids, Emily Ann Blackwell
Unusual Genomes: Exploring Genome Architecture in Ciliates and Ploidy Cycles Across the Eukaryotic Tree of Life, Wumei Blanche
Repentance, Redemption, Resurrection: Early Christian Art and Exegesis of The Book of Jonah, Naomi Brill
CRISPR-Mediated Transfection of Brugia malayi in a Co-Culture System, Sohpia Chertock
“Early voting is not good for us”: The Effect of Republican Perceptions of Voter Elasticity on State Voting Laws, Charlotte Cox
Exploring Freshwater Foraminifera Biodiversity in a Local Bog, Tarrin D'Aniello
The Addition of Non-Canonical Amino Acids to Engineered Cancer-Targeting Proteins, Helen Danielson
A Different Kind of Missing, Olivia Davis
The Effect of Black Lives Matter Protests on Arrest Rates: Evidence from Chicago, Carol Xiaomiao Gao
Reelin Signaling: Neurogenesis and Neuropathology, Zoë Gardner
Understudied microbes hiding in plain sight within Nepenthes tropical pitcher plants, Jailene Carolina Gonzalez
Generating Music with Structure Using Self-Similarity as Attention, Sophia Hager
Rapid Effects of Estrogens on Social Approach Behavior and Social Recognition in Male Zebrafish, Rachel Hantz
Macroalgal-Associated Foraminifera in Tide Pools, Rebecca Harrigan
High-Precision Spectroscopy Of Neutral Beryllium-9, Molly Herzog
Comparing Adult and Juvenile Foot-Flagging Behavior in Staurois parvus Frogs with Machine Learning, Christina Hung
Knockdown of Core Clock Genes in Aedes albopictus and Aedes polynesiensis, Sungwoo Hwang
Improving Mutational Signature Detection in Cancer Through Frequentist and Bayesian Hypothesis Testing, Natalia Iannucci
Simulation of a Magneto-optical Trap for Oxygen Atoms, Umeyma Ibrahim
A FUV to NIR Accretion Luminosity Accounting of the Young Brown Dwarf 2M1207A, Lillian Yushu Jiang
The State and the Stateless: What Do We Owe Refugees, Qingle Jin
Optimization of Poly(Pentafluorophenyl Acrylate) Polymer-Drug Conjugates for Targeted Drug Delivery, Macy R. Kasbo
Triple Stars, Emma J. Kerr
Fishing for Anxiety: Determining the Role of the Reelin Signaling Pathway in Regulating Zebrafish Behavior, Diamond Lewis
Work Toward the Synthesis of Strained Heteroatom-Containing Cyclic Alkynes Using an Intramolecular Nicholas Reaction, Halley M. Lin-Jones
Decolonial Liminality: Boundary Crossings in the Novels of Michelle Cliff, Diamond Christina Mark
Aintabtzis in America: an Armenian Community Rebuilt, Alex Martin
Popularizing Mysticism: William James, Carl Jung, and the Development of American Psycho-Spirituality, Grace Mason-Brown
Gravitational Lens Modeling to Inform Studies of Distant Dusty Star-forming Galaxies: A Close Look at J132217, Lilah Mercadante
The Role of Electricity Sector Modeling in Climate Policy Design: A Case Study of Massachusetts, Lucy E. Metz
The Phenomenology of African Women’s Spiritual Futurity in African Futurism, Mosa N. Molapo
Transcriptomic Variability Across an Anemone (Exaiptasia diaphana) Polyp, Joanne Moseley
Genome-Wide Identification of Brugia Malayi Transcription Factor Binding Sites Using ChIP-Seq, Grace Mosley
Synthesis of Nitrogen Containing Neurolenin Derivatives as a Potential Drug Against Lymphatic Filariasis, Monalisa Munia
Determining Conditions for Storage and Release of Road Salt Pollution in a Calcareous Fen: A Hydrological and Geochemical Analysis of Kampoosa Bog, Stockbridge and Lee, MA., Wayne D. H. Ndlovu
Number Theoretic Properties of a Sequence Arising from a Discrete Dynamical System with a Countable Number of Discontinuities, Pham Dan Anh Nguyen
Camera-Penned, User-Generated: Searching for Self in YouTube Video Essays, Clare O'Gara
O Olho de Cabra: An Exploration of the Human-Nature Relationship in Reality Television, Ellis Jane Oliver
Animal Abundance and Redox Conditions During the Furongian Cambrian SPICE Event, Western Utah, Amelia E. Olsen
Changing the International System: Democratic Backsliding and Autocratic Control of the United Nations, Erin Oppel
Exploring the Effect of Cobalt-complexed Alkynes on Dienes in Diels-Alder Reactions, Lingyue Grace Ou
Characterizing the Influence of Sonic Hedgehog Guidance on Cranial Neural Crest Cell Migration into the Zebrafish Forebrain, Nadia Burnett PenkoffLidbeck
More than a Fire Starter? Examining the Impact of Voter Guides on Political Knowledge, Madeline Pfaff
Assessing Global Seismic Moment Balance, George C. Pharris
Music Waits: Writing an Invisible Illness for Live Theatre, Sophia Pichanick
Immunity Gene Knockdown in Aedes Albopictus and Aedes Polynesiensis Using RNA Interference, Rachel E. Pietrow
Subverting Mother/Lands: How Black Women of the 1970s Reclaimed the New Negro, Négritude, and Negrismo, Rose A. Poku
Characterizing the Anti-Cancer Therapeutic Effects of an Engineered Protein That Recognizes Mesothelin Tumor Biomarker, Florence Yunan Qian
Forams at 4am: Genome Dynamics, Nuclear Structure, and Synchronicity within Foraminifera, Hannah A. Rappaport
When the Realms of Life and Death Collide: a Literary Katabasis, Phoebe Rendon-Nissenbaum
Resilient Carbon Neutrality: Battery Backup Power on Smith Campus, Sarah Robson
Exploring the Relationships Between Socioeconomic Status, Expressive Language and Self-Injurious Behaviors in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Lindsey Rosenthal
Governance of European Integration: The Path Forward, Nikki Schuldt
Democratic Precarity from Below: Exclusion, Resistance, and the Gendered and Racialized Division of Labor, Lily Sendroff
Flying Protists: Analyzing Bird-associated Protists with High-throughput Sequencing, Clara Slesar
The “Comfort System” and the Allied Powers’ Failure to Prosecute Sexual Enslavement, Hayley Soehle
Reconstructing Past Temperatures from Lake Sediments at Darwin Crater, Tasmania, Australia Using the brGDGT Biomarker Proxy, Ibuki Sugiura
Social Contagion or Self-Containment? The Influence of Echo and Narcissus on The Picture of Dorian Gray, Caroline Triolo
The Phenotypic and Molecular Correlates of Colicin Resistance in E. coli, Helen Wang
“The Song and the Weeping”: Death, Love, and Gifts in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Melinda White
Fundamentally I am Chinese: Habsburg Jewish Authors between Antisemitism and Sinophobia 1900-1918, Fiona Wu
Chan-Lam Oxygen-Cyclopropylation of Aliphatic Alcohols, Miranda Wu
Site-Specific Protein-Polymer Conjugation with Activated Ester Polymers for Targeted Cancer Therapy, Jiyun Zhang
Private or Public Support? The Impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme on Intergenerational Support in Rural China, Zixuan Zhang
Development and Analysis of a Quasi Two-Dimensional Numerical Model for a Coaxial Geothermal Heat Exchanger, Xinyue Zou
Honors Projects and Theses from 2021
Our great curse : negative partisanship and social polarization in the United States, Molly St. Clair Aber
Gendered impacts of climate change on labor force participation in India, Prachi Adhikari
Constructing assembly scaffolds for viral data in the protein data bank, Sakina Ali
The enduring life of Black art : looming expectations and Freestyle's aesthetics of aliveness, Camille Gallogly Bacon
Describing the geometry of the ear canal from CT scans, Auden Pendar Balouch
Addressing the scientific reproducibility crisis through educational software integration, Audrey Margaret Bertin