Honors Projects
Microgrid design informed by genetic algorithms, Jessica Leigh Wert, Honors Project
Analysis of neurolenin bioactivity in adult Caenorhabditis elegans and Dirofilaria immitis, Grace Caroline Wessels, Honors Project
Paleoecology of post-extinction fossil assemblages of the lower Triassic virgin limestone member in the Muddy Mountains, Southern Nevada : new insights into silicification of recovery faunas, Sophie Westacott, Honors Project
Comrades and rivals : farmers and foxhunters in nineteenth-century Leicestershire, Madison Capron White, Honors Project
The Lobo-Cabernite affair : a close look at the case study as history and historical problem, Anna White-Nockleby, Honors Project
Effects of early initial stimulation in cochlear implant recipients : a retrospective study, Abigail Reilly Wilkins, Honors Project
The impact of Smith College on the Hampshire County economy, Kaitlyn E. Willcoxon, Honors Project
Measuring liver gene expression using in vivo bioluminescence imaging, Ivana William, Honors Project
"I don't want to be the victim no more" : a lesbian history of South Bend, Indiana 1974-present, Elizabeth Anne Williams, Honors Project
Different coasts and different hosts : investigating speciation in the seal lungworm Otostrongylus circumlitus, Kalani Marie Williams, Honors Project
Investigating genome architecture and composition in the class Litostomatea, Monica Annmarie Wilson, Honors Project
Rats get by with a little help from their friends : behavioral correlates of prosociality in rats, Sarah Banks Winokur, Honors Project
Storied empires : The tempest and Lettres d'une Péruvienne, Caroline Winschel, Honors Project
On homometric sets, Jennifer Irene Wise, Honors Project
Screening Jane Eyre : gender and the construction of character on film, Sarah Jean Wisner, Honors Project
Medicinal plants to medication : an investigation of the antifilarial potential of Centella asiatica on the parasite Brugia Pahang, Marika Witkus, Honors Project
Lo sviluppo del jazz in Italia, dalle origini agli anni Sessanta, Adriana Emery Wolfe, Honors Project
Sustaining Smith : an environmental history of food at Smith College, 1875-2010, Elisabeth Field Wolfe, Honors Project
The Sedgeford ovens : Anglo-Saxon archaeology, grain production, and comparative hot-process structures, Alice Carolyn Wolff, Honors Project
Towards In silico protein surgery : handling errors and working with the protein data bank, Victoria E. Wolf, Honors Project
Separations at Sinai : boundaries in Exodus 19, Sarah L. Woodbury, Honors Project
The biodiversity of and interactions among microbes in New England ecosystems : coastal marine and low pH. bogs, Cameah Corin Wood, Honors Project
Modern benthic foraminifera of Carbla Beach, Shark Bay, Western Australia: population ecology and taphonomy, Daniel Eli Wood, Honors Project
No John Trumbull : social, political, and cultural resonance of Hamilton: an American musical, Maria Dougherty Wood, Honors Project
"What love women to men may owe" : gender performativity and romantic relationships in Shakespeare's comedies, Oliva Elizabeth Woods, Honors Project
Ultrasounds : maternal voices in the soundscape of the modern horror film, Morgan Woolsey, Honors Project
The beckoning of Black Baku : Russian foreign policy and interests in Azerbaijan, 1828-2014, Elisabeth Ercil Wroth, Honors Project
Identification of clock gene functional conservation between Caenorhabditis elegans and Brugia malayi, Jenna Irene Wurster, Honors Project
Synthesis and base pair opening kinetics of the Spiroimminodihydantoin lesion, Ruby C. Wu, Honors Project
Transgressions, impermanence, and the humanity within Euripedes' Alcestis, Faith Julianna Marie Wykle, Honors Project
The effects of age, gender, race and ear canal area on normative adult wideband acoustic immittance (WAI) measures, Lu Xia, Honors Project
Metagenomics of the methane ice worm, Sirsoe methanicola, and its associated microbial community, Wei Xin, Honors Project
Development of a tandem Diels-Alder/Pauson-Khand reaction strategy for the synthesis of a tetracyclic steroid core, Eve Yuanwei Xu, Honors Project
On the path to mutual understanding : the image of Islam among modern French thinkers and the image of France among Muslim thinkers, Jiaying Xu, Honors Project
Love and self : considering the agency of Lin Daiyu in The dream of the red chamber, Lingyan Xu, Honors Project
The influence of culture on descriptions of realilty and regulatory focus, Xiaoye Xu, Honors Project
Práticas educativas no sistema educacional Brasileiro : necessidade e perspectivas de reforma, Natassia Yahoub, Honors Project
Simulation of excitations in Bose-Einstein condensates, Frances Fu-Hsin Yang, Honors Project
What does your hair smell like? : identifying and modifying hair affinity for volatile molecules, Jinyi Yang, Honors Project
The home music environment for children, Ran Yan, Honors Project
Attitudes towards fatherhood in low income African American adolescent males, Emily Yen, Honors Project
A method for verifying RNA integrity in mosquito nucleic acid extraction, Bethlehem Asnakew Yigzaw, Honors Project
The dream of the moon rocket the glory and the sorrow of belonging to the girls' culture : 1970 to 1990, Sowon Yoon, Honors Project
James Baldwin : Black American expatriate, Anna R. Young, Honors Project
Effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy within the specialized inpatient PTSD unit at the Northampton VA, Hannah Shea Young, Honors Project
"Senseless dreams?" : the self-presentation of Nicholas II in image and word, 1904-1917, Lauren Sarah Young, Honors Project
Univariate and multivariate quantification of hydrogen, lithium, boron, carbon, and sulfur under vacuum and in Earth and Mars atmospheres using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, Caroline R. Ytsma, Honors Project
Escaping escapism : racebending as genre-bending in fanfiction, Katarina Feng Yuan, Honors Project
Escalation of commitment in retrospect : an integration of responsibility, counterfactual thinking and hindsight bias, Huafeng Yu, Honors Project
Diagnosis checker : an interactive interface for mitigating diagnostic bias in mental health care, Ji Young Yun, Honors Project
Understanding knowledge building discourse in undergraduate engineering education : an in-depth case study, Yanning Yu, Honors Project
Investigation of "cold point" crystallization method, Zhouchangwan Yu, Honors Project
Silage treatment using constructed wetlands, Ansha Zaman, Honors Project
Metabolites prediction in multiple studies using machine learning, Ziwei Zang, Honors Project
Computer modeling of the evolution of the Gilkey and Thiel Glacier Valley profiles, Juneau Icefield, Alaska, Jenna Marie Zechmann, Honors Project
Telling, retelling, and not telling : narrating the black Atlantic, Madeline Lee Zehnder, Honors Project
Fossils preserved by iron-bearing minerals in the Lower-Middle Cambrian Carrara formation, Jade Ziqiu Zhang, Honors Project
Elucidate the gene regulation in Clostridium lijungdahlii, Jing Zhang, Honors Project
Social identity theory and the compatibility of self-motives in intergroup context, Jinghui Zhang, Honors Project
Nucleosomal base excision repair of spiroiminodihydantoin lesions initiated by formamidopyrimidine DNA glycosylase, Linghe Zhang, Honors Project
Improving access to open-source data about the NYC bike sharing system (Citi Bike), Weijia Zhang, Honors Project
Wideband acoustic immittance measurements : effects of age, gender, race, and equipment, Yezhezi Zhang, Honors Project
DNA-catalyst conjugates for site-selective transformations in biological sciences, Yu Zhang, Honors Project
An investigation of the tolerance principle with two productive rules in child language acquisition, Shengqi Zhong, Honors Project
A hedonic valuation of open space in Northampton, Jacqueline Wenya Zhou, Honors Project
Genome evolution of ciliates : alternative processing and genome structure of Chilodonella uncinata, Xinzhu Zhou, Honors Project
Perception of Mandarin nasal codas by Shanghainese-Mandarin bilingual listeners, Yanwan Zhu, Honors Project
Aerobic, copper catalyzed phenol methylation via the Chan-Lam coupling reaction, Yingchuan Zhu, Honors Project
Client emotional response and psychotherapy progress : a case-based approach, Yiwen Zhu, Honors Project
Design of a controllable turntable for an FPGA-based image processing system, Yuqing Zhu, Honors Project
Investigation of a molecular mechanism for anesthetic preconditioning, Alexis Marie Ziemba, Honors Project
Catalytic methylation of oxygen nucleophiles by "C₃" and an oxidant, Jillian Zoglio, Honors Project
Effects of eastern hemlock removal on nutrient cycling and forest ecosystem processes at the MacLeish Field Station, Whately, MA, Jenna M. Zukswert, Honors Project
Honors Theses
Using genetic algorithms to incorporate antibiotic resistance in the modeling of tuberculosis in the United States, Ellie Mainou, Honors Thesis
A Few Phases of the Samoan Question, Kate Pinsdorf, Honors Thesis
The Development of Honore Daumier as a Painter: A Proposed Chronology, Emilie duMun Smith, Honors Thesis
Johann Kuhnau, Gertrude Parker Smith, Honors Thesis
Urbanization and acculturation in Ghana : a comparative study of Kumasi, Accra and Tema, Harriett Tee Taggart, Honors Thesis
Masters Theses
Gender Spectrum : exploring gender diversity in schools : a project based upon an investigation at schools that received Gender Spectrum training on the topics of gender and gender diversity, Meredith S. Abrams, Masters Thesis
Pet ownership and perceived stress in social work students and clinicians, Karen E. Acheson, Masters Thesis
A channel of peace : the role of clinicians' spirituality in their clinical process, Tiffany Rene Adams, Masters Thesis
A mixed-method study examining the intersection of race and sexual violence among LGBTQ prisoners, Sarah J. Aftab, Masters Thesis
Let's talk about sex : sexual education and adolescent sexual behavior, Stephanie Grace Agnew, Masters Thesis
Life as a sensory over-responsive adult : social/emotional challenges, coping mechanisms and treatments, Sarah K. Ahn, Masters Thesis
Resilient traits of children raised by a parent with borderline personality disorder, Meghan Andrea Albrecht, Masters Thesis
Interdisciplinary collaboration in a psychiatric treatment setting : a project based upon an investigation at Bradley Hospital, Riverside, Rhode Island, Timothy John Albro, Masters Thesis
An exploratory study on mental health service experience and its perceived impact on young adults transitioning out of foster care, Sonia Lizette Aldape, Masters Thesis
Natural Lifemanship trauma-focused equine assisted psychotherapy model : is there a change in children's feelings and behaviors over time?, Julia M. Alexander, Masters Thesis
The impact of Islamophobia on the Muslim American community : accounts of psychological suffering, identity negotiation, and collective trauma, Areeza Ali, Masters Thesis
An exploration of the Nepali-Bhutanese community from the adolescent perspective : a project based upon an investigation at Asian Counseling and Referral Service, Seattle, Washington, Matthew J. Allen, Masters Thesis
Dismantling the dominant narrative of the irreversibility of schizophrenia : three meaning making approaches to psychosis, Sarah K. Alpern, Masters Thesis
How white non-Latino/a therapists perceive and address racial and cultural differences when working with Latino/a clients, Lisa C. Amato, Masters Thesis
"The most badass thing I've ever done" : experiences of transgender and gender non-conforming birth parents, Lauren Ambrosini, Masters Thesis
Restorative justice : including victims, offenders and communities in criminal justice dialogue, Jessica C. Ames, Masters Thesis
Who directs the play and why? an exploratory study of directive versus nondirective play therapy, Carolyn Andrews, Masters Thesis
Best for baby : what factors influence new mothers when choosing between breastfeeding and bottle feeding babies under the age of two, Jacquelyn S. Andrews, Masters Thesis
The therapist in the room : towards an understanding of the therapist's personhood in therapeutic practice : a project based upon an independent investigation, Stephanie Margaret Aquila, Masters Thesis
"I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning to sail my ship", Claire Marie Arbour, Masters Thesis
The perceived role of biological father contact in the self-estem development of young African American women : an exploratory study, Kendra R. Archer, Masters Thesis
Re-envisaging Erikson : deconstructing adoption through the case of Claire : a project based upon an independent investigation, Alison M. Armstrong, Masters Thesis