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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

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Successful Application of Emerging FTIRS Technique to Quantify Biogenic Silica and Organic Carbon in Lake Sediments for Paleoclimate Reconstruction: A Case Study from Lacawac Lake, Pennsylvania, M.A. Fischer

Honors Projects and Theses from 2023

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Investigating Delays: What Temporal Variation in EPA Action under CERCLA Suggests About Equity, Jane Andrews

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Aiding Users in Requirements Analysis Tasks Through Color and Filtering, Yesugen Baatartogtokh

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The Role of Forced Migration in Non-Capitalist Accumulation Today, Hannah Beck

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DNA-Palladium Conjugates for Targeted Drug Delivery in Biological Systems, Laura Birkart

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Combinatorial Approaches for the Synthesis of Protein-Polymer Conjugates (PPC) for Drug Delivery, Ama Boamah

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The Role of Cobalt-Complexed Alkynes in the Diels-Alder Reaction, Ashlyn Bohn

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Cherry Pie: American Stories of Sexuality and Religion, Amelia Burton

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Predictors of Domestic Sex Trafficking Susceptibility in a Nationwide Sample of Women, Betsy Ruth Button

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Differentiation of Boron Reagents within Chan-Evans-Lam Oxygen Methylation, Angela Chavez

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"Supporting local agriculture and feeding people": Farmers’ Markets in Hampden County and Fresh Food for Low-Income Communities, R.C. Ettenger

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The Role of Cargo-Motor Connectivity in Transport by Ensembles of Dynein, Hana Hieshima

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Effects of Jetlag on Skin Health, Pratima Niroula

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Fishnet: a Homecoming, Paige Passantino

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Visualizing Spaces of Non-Place in Japanese-Brazilian Film and Television, Emilia Helena Tamayo

Honors Projects and Theses from 2022

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The Effect of a Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator on the Developing C2C12 Proteome, Ahlenne Abreu

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not only will i stare, Ira Beare

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Sexual Dimorphism in the Cranial Shape of Canids, Emily Ann Blackwell

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Unusual Genomes: Exploring Genome Architecture in Ciliates and Ploidy Cycles Across the Eukaryotic Tree of Life, Wumei Blanche

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Repentance, Redemption, Resurrection: Early Christian Art and Exegesis of The Book of Jonah, Naomi Brill

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CRISPR-Mediated Transfection of Brugia malayi in a Co-Culture System, Sohpia Chertock

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“Early voting is not good for us”: The Effect of Republican Perceptions of Voter Elasticity on State Voting Laws, Charlotte Cox

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Exploring Freshwater Foraminifera Biodiversity in a Local Bog, Tarrin D'Aniello

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The Addition of Non-Canonical Amino Acids to Engineered Cancer-Targeting Proteins, Helen Danielson

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A Different Kind of Missing, Olivia Davis

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The Effect of Black Lives Matter Protests on Arrest Rates: Evidence from Chicago, Carol Xiaomiao Gao

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Reelin Signaling: Neurogenesis and Neuropathology, Zoë Gardner

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Understudied microbes hiding in plain sight within Nepenthes tropical pitcher plants, Jailene Carolina Gonzalez

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Generating Music with Structure Using Self-Similarity as Attention, Sophia Hager

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Development and Optimization of Molecular Diagnostic Assays for the Sensitive and Specific Detection of Schistosoma Species, Sara Halili

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Rapid Effects of Estrogens on Social Approach Behavior and Social Recognition in Male Zebrafish, Rachel Hantz

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Macroalgal-Associated Foraminifera in Tide Pools, Rebecca Harrigan

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High-Precision Spectroscopy Of Neutral Beryllium-9, Molly Herzog

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Comparing Adult and Juvenile Foot-Flagging Behavior in Staurois parvus Frogs with Machine Learning, Christina Hung

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Knockdown of Core Clock Genes in Aedes albopictus and Aedes polynesiensis, Sungwoo Hwang

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Improving Mutational Signature Detection in Cancer Through Frequentist and Bayesian Hypothesis Testing, Natalia Iannucci

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Simulation of a Magneto-optical Trap for Oxygen Atoms, Umeyma Ibrahim

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A FUV to NIR Accretion Luminosity Accounting of the Young Brown Dwarf 2M1207A, Lillian Yushu Jiang

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The State and the Stateless: What Do We Owe Refugees, Qingle Jin

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Optimization of Poly(Pentafluorophenyl Acrylate) Polymer-Drug Conjugates for Targeted Drug Delivery, Macy R. Kasbo

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Triple Stars, Emma J. Kerr

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Synthesis and Optimization of Fn3-Pvdma Protein-Polymer Conjugates for Targeted Drug Delivery Applications, Yeji Lee

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Fishing for Anxiety: Determining the Role of the Reelin Signaling Pathway in Regulating Zebrafish Behavior, Diamond Lewis

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Work Toward the Synthesis of Strained Heteroatom-Containing Cyclic Alkynes Using an Intramolecular Nicholas Reaction, Halley M. Lin-Jones

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Connections between Deicing Practices and Infrastructure on Water Chemistry of Lyman and Paradise Ponds at Smith College, Northampton, MA, Wenxi Li

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Decolonial Liminality: Boundary Crossings in the Novels of Michelle Cliff, Diamond Christina Mark

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Aintabtzis in America: an Armenian Community Rebuilt, Alex Martin

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Popularizing Mysticism: William James, Carl Jung, and the Development of American Psycho-Spirituality, Grace Mason-Brown

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Gravitational Lens Modeling to Inform Studies of Distant Dusty Star-forming Galaxies: A Close Look at J132217, Lilah Mercadante

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The Role of Electricity Sector Modeling in Climate Policy Design: A Case Study of Massachusetts, Lucy E. Metz

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The Phenomenology of African Women’s Spiritual Futurity in African Futurism, Mosa N. Molapo

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Transcriptomic Variability Across an Anemone (Exaiptasia diaphana) Polyp, Joanne Moseley

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Genome-Wide Identification of Brugia Malayi Transcription Factor Binding Sites Using ChIP-Seq, Grace Mosley

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Synthesis of Nitrogen Containing Neurolenin Derivatives as a Potential Drug Against Lymphatic Filariasis, Monalisa Munia

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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

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Number Theoretic Properties of a Sequence Arising from a Discrete Dynamical System with a Countable Number of Discontinuities, Pham Dan Anh Nguyen

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Camera-Penned, User-Generated: Searching for Self in YouTube Video Essays, Clare O'Gara

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O Olho de Cabra: An Exploration of the Human-Nature Relationship in Reality Television, Ellis Jane Oliver

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Animal Abundance and Redox Conditions During the Furongian Cambrian SPICE Event, Western Utah, Amelia E. Olsen

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Changing the International System: Democratic Backsliding and Autocratic Control of the United Nations, Erin Oppel

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Exploring the Effect of Cobalt-complexed Alkynes on Dienes in Diels-Alder Reactions, Lingyue Grace Ou

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Characterizing the Influence of Sonic Hedgehog Guidance on Cranial Neural Crest Cell Migration into the Zebrafish Forebrain, Nadia Burnett PenkoffLidbeck

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More than a Fire Starter? Examining the Impact of Voter Guides on Political Knowledge, Madeline Pfaff

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Assessing Global Seismic Moment Balance, George C. Pharris

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Music Waits: Writing an Invisible Illness for Live Theatre, Sophia Pichanick

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Immunity Gene Knockdown in Aedes Albopictus and Aedes Polynesiensis Using RNA Interference, Rachel E. Pietrow

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Subverting Mother/Lands: How Black Women of the 1970s Reclaimed the New Negro, Négritude, and Negrismo, Rose A. Poku

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Characterizing the Anti-Cancer Therapeutic Effects of an Engineered Protein That Recognizes Mesothelin Tumor Biomarker, Florence Yunan Qian

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Forams at 4am: Genome Dynamics, Nuclear Structure, and Synchronicity within Foraminifera, Hannah A. Rappaport

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When the Realms of Life and Death Collide: a Literary Katabasis, Phoebe Rendon-Nissenbaum

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Skeletal Abundance and Diversity in the Lower Ordovician Catoche and Fillmore Formations: Tracing the Roots of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, Ashley Rivas

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Resilient Carbon Neutrality: Battery Backup Power on Smith Campus, Sarah Robson

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Exploring the Relationships Between Socioeconomic Status, Expressive Language and Self-Injurious Behaviors in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Lindsey Rosenthal

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Governance of European Integration: The Path Forward, Nikki Schuldt

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Democratic Precarity from Below: Exclusion, Resistance, and the Gendered and Racialized Division of Labor, Lily Sendroff

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Flying Protists: Analyzing Bird-associated Protists with High-throughput Sequencing, Clara Slesar

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The “Comfort System” and the Allied Powers’ Failure to Prosecute Sexual Enslavement, Hayley Soehle

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Development of an Iron-catalyzed Oxidative 𝛼-Amination Method to Couple Carbonyl Derivatives with Primary Sulfonamides and Other Nitrogen Sources, Fubin Song

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African American Parent Stories About How Race, Culture, Class and Personal Experiences Influence Parental Involvement with Public Schools: A Narrative Analysis, Brandy Stewart

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Reconstructing Past Temperatures from Lake Sediments at Darwin Crater, Tasmania, Australia Using the brGDGT Biomarker Proxy, Ibuki Sugiura

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Social Contagion or Self-Containment? The Influence of Echo and Narcissus on The Picture of Dorian Gray, Caroline Triolo

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Remembering Fae Richards, Inventing Fae Richards: Archival Imagination in Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman, Erin Walsh

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The Phenotypic and Molecular Correlates of Colicin Resistance in E. coli, Helen Wang

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“Kind and Firm:” Assessing Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices for Children with Autism in a Rehabilitation Center in China, Xiyu Wan

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“The Song and the Weeping”: Death, Love, and Gifts in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Melinda White

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Fundamentally I am Chinese: Habsburg Jewish Authors between Antisemitism and Sinophobia 1900-1918, Fiona Wu

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Chan-Lam Oxygen-Cyclopropylation of Aliphatic Alcohols, Miranda Wu

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Site-Specific Protein-Polymer Conjugation with Activated Ester Polymers for Targeted Cancer Therapy, Jiyun Zhang

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Private or Public Support? The Impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme on Intergenerational Support in Rural China, Zixuan Zhang

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Development and Analysis of a Quasi Two-Dimensional Numerical Model for a Coaxial Geothermal Heat Exchanger, Xinyue Zou

Honors Projects and Theses from 2021

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Our great curse : negative partisanship and social polarization in the United States, Molly St. Clair Aber

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Gendered impacts of climate change on labor force participation in India, Prachi Adhikari

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Constructing assembly scaffolds for viral data in the protein data bank, Sakina Ali

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The enduring life of Black art : looming expectations and Freestyle's aesthetics of aliveness, Camille Gallogly Bacon

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Describing the geometry of the ear canal from CT scans, Auden Pendar Balouch

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Addressing the scientific reproducibility crisis through educational software integration, Audrey Margaret Bertin

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Modern art and Yidish literature in interwar Paris : translating Wolf Wieviroka and Chil Aronson, Sarah Faye Biskowitz

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Computational and experimental protein engineering for targeted drug delivery, Jessica Bonsu

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The impact of weather shocks on employment outcomes : evidence from South Africa, Harriet Margaret Brookes Gray

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Analysis and design of a gimbaled thrust model rocket, Halle E. Brown