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
An Innovative Alliance between Gays and Lesbians: Contract Marriage, Reproductive Intention, and Internalized Heteronormativity, Xi Cassie Cao
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
Effect of Sp Lesions on the Breathing Kinetics of 11-mer DNA Duplexes, Michelle Chen
Bacterial Microbiome Variation Across Symbiotic State and Clonal Lines in a Cnidarian Model, Ezra Curtis
Evaluating the Feasibility of a Multiplex qPCR Assay for Diagnosis of Schistosomiasis and Lymphatic Filariasis from Urine, Siobhan Dietz
"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
Progress Toward Identifying Bioactive Sites of Neurolenin Compounds, Nina Glesby
The Role of Cargo-Motor Connectivity in Transport by Ensembles of Dynein, Hana Hieshima
The Hairpin: A Novel Method to Correct for the Effects of Population Stratification on Polygenic Risk Scores, Shevaughn Holness
Base Excision Repair of Oxidative Guanine Lesions in Nucleosomes Initiated by Formamidopyrimidine DNA Glycosylase, Alina Jarrett
Characterizing Lineage-Specific Genes in Testate Lobose Amoebae (Arcellinida), Angela Kaijia Jiang
Post-Polymerization Functional Patterning of Polymer Networks for the Development of Chemical Sensors, Anna Lynch
Effects of Jetlag on Skin Health, Pratima Niroula
Cranial Neural Crest Cells: Breaking Convention to Build the Forebrain, Nalini Oliver
Fishnet: a Homecoming, Paige Passantino
Handwriting Recognition for Old Nom Handwriting Manuscripts, Phuong Phan
Associations Between Micromorphological Traits and Macromorphology of Carnivorous Pitcher Plant Traps and Their Potential Relationship to Prey Capture, Marge Poma Alarcon
Engineering Fn3 Protein-Drug Conjugates for Targeted Cancer Therapy, Vivien Qiao
Going North: Inferring Testate Amoeba Habitat Shifts in Response to Climate Change with Ecological Niche Modeling, Emma Schumacher
Visualizing Spaces of Non-Place in Japanese-Brazilian Film and Television, Emilia Helena Tamayo
Self-supervised Learning for Ancient Syriac Handwriting Style Identification, Yanning Tan
Exploring Eukaryotic Genome Evolution Through Phylogenomics and Microscopy, Caitlin Timmons
A Potential Microbiological Agent to Combat Ophiostoma novo-ulmi Infection of Elms, Jennifer Wise
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