Honors Projects
Synthesis of protein-polymer conjugates for targeted drug delivery, Analia Jazmin Vázquez Cegla, Honors Project
"A very threatened and nervous group of people" : public scrutiny of sexuality at Smith College in two historical moments, Ginina Grace Velocci, Honors Project
Family matters : political mobilization among evangelical Protestants and Latter-day Saints, Rachel Carr Venator, Honors Project
Identification of thioredoxin peroxidase-2 (tpx-2) promoter-binding proteins in the filarial parasite, Brugia malayi : a targeted approach to vaccine and drug candidate discovery, Krithika Venkataraman, Honors Project
Optimizing collection purification and characterization of salivary dopamine and its metabolites as biomarkers for Parkinson's disease, Josselyn Sofia Vergara Cobos, Honors Project
Music from my living room : an album for the Smith community, Sarah Elizabeth Vespa, Honors Project
Precision spectroscopy of beryllium, Alisha Daya Vira, Honors Project
Accuracy of DNA pairing by the RecA protein : proof of concept for a RecA gene chip, Julea Michelle Vlassakis, Honors Project
Opinions we loathe : speech rights on college campuses, Julie Marie Voorhes, Honors Project
Learning queer knowledge : a study of lesbian community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Jennifer Bucchianeri Wachowski, Honors Project
Separation of the diastereomers of 2,6-Diisopropylcyclohexanol & synthesis and purification of 2,6-Disubstituted cyclohexanols and cyclohexylamines for application as potential anesthetics, Htoo Tint Wai, Honors Project
The little mermaid, Paulina Juliana Wake, Honors Project
Cam girls, Elizabeth Adeline Slavet Walber, Honors Project
Characterization of cyclohexanol modulation of GABA[subscript A], Erin M. Walch, Honors Project
Structural analysis of Precambrian mylonite zones, Henry's Lake Mountains, southwest Montana and Idaho, Alianora Walker, Honors Project
Multilingual dreams and exophonic realities : lessons from Tawada Yōko's essay "Capetown" in her story "Cinema of the night", Kerry Linda Walker, Honors Project
Harmonic tensions : disciplinary boundaries in Nietzsche and Camus, Sofia Ali Walker, Honors Project
"That's what makes me, me" : portraits of four high school students reveal the importantance of an after-school program, Elizabeth Marie Wallace, Honors Project
There will be signs along the way to guide you : a study of abandonment in American society today, Olivia Wall, Honors Project
International images and stereotypes : applying image theory and the stereotype content model to inter-group relationships among three Latin American countries, Raya Jordan Wall, Honors Project
Remembering Fae Richards, Inventing Fae Richards: Archival Imagination in Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman, Erin Walsh, Honors Project
Reactive azlactone hydrogels : fundamental characteristics and cell compatability, Megan Marie Wancura, Honors Project
Perceiving meaning, Alina S. Wang, Honors Project
The Phenotypic and Molecular Correlates of Colicin Resistance in E. coli, Helen Wang, Honors Project
Developing a new system for bioluminescence in vivo imaging of free-moving mice : a new way to measure circadian rhythms, Wanqi Wang, Honors Project
Interpreting negated adjectives : a developmental perspective, Xiaozhou Wang, Honors Project
Automatically merging evolving goal models, Yilin Wang, Honors Project
Automatically merging evolving goal models, Yilin Wang, Honors Project
Social cohesion, stability, and liberal peacebuilding : lessons from John Rawls and Robert Nozick, Yiqian Wang, Honors Project
“Kind and Firm:” Assessing Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices for Children with Autism in a Rehabilitation Center in China, Xiyu Wan, Honors Project
Narrating a multifaceted self : producing and policing identity on Facebook, Sara Waszkiewicz, Honors Project
Aesthetic men and vanishing women : Oscar Wilde's homosociality and the rejection of desire, Emma Cairns Watson, Honors Project
Art as litany : analyzing Alexej von Jawlensky's work as an Expressionist outsider, Jessica Watson, Honors Project
The institutional correlates of enrollments of international students, Nutcha Wattanachit, Honors Project
Modeling sediment transport during sluicing events in Paradise Pond, MA, Cheryl Lyn Watts, Honors Project
The history of Smith College's dual degree programs in liberal arts and engineering, Heidi Katharine Waugh, Honors Project
Grains of wheat, Abigail Claire Weaver, Honors Project
Developing a method to determine whether a shell-shaped cold atomic gas is a condensate, Quincy Webb, Honors Project
Parasites of the Kalahari Desert Black Rhinoceros: Investigating Nematode Diversity via 18S Metagenome Sequencing: Devising Genomic Methods for Sensitive and Reliable Detection of GI-borne Rhinoceros Parasites, Margaret K. Weber, Honors Project
Effect of stand characteristics on throughfall in a New England forest, Alex Webster, Honors Project
Geochemical investigation of weathering in a high arctic watershed and provenance of ssediments in Kongressvatnet, Svalbard, Norway, Maya Li Wei-Haas, Honors Project
A location-based visualization tool for the development of smart parklets in downtown Northampton: Design Clinic project: mobile parklet design in Northampton, Flora Weil, Honors Project
Electric power system design for miniature proton exchange membrane fuel cells, Yijin Wei, Honors Project
The art market for the hottest Chinese contemporary artists : a hedonic approach, Kailin Weng, Honors Project
An environmentally friendly synthetic approach : making vanillin from colored clay, Lexiaochuan Wen, Honors Project
An encoder-based soft optical waveguide sensor pair for contact force detection and localization, Yuhan Wen, Honors Project
The Jews of Bukhara : from ancient beginnings to the present day, Shoshana Beth Werblow, Honors Project
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 Song and the Weeping”: Death, Love, and Gifts in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Melinda White, Honors Project
The Lobo-Cabernite affair : a close look at the case study as history and historical problem, Anna White-Nockleby, Honors Project
Using Sensitivity Analyses to Approximate Total COVID-19 Infections: State and County level in the United States, March 2021 - March 2022, Quinn White, Honors Project
Call Me Holy for I Will Be Holy: Gendered Self-Fashioning, Abjection, and Authorship in the Lives of Medieval Female Lay Saints, Ella Wiegers, 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
A Potential Microbiological Agent to Combat Ophiostoma novo-ulmi Infection of Elms, Jennifer Wise, 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
Fundamentally I am Chinese: Habsburg Jewish Authors between Antisemitism and Sinophobia 1900-1918, Fiona Wu, Honors Project
Chan-Lam Oxygen-Cyclopropylation of Aliphatic Alcohols, Miranda Wu, 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
Follow the Red Star: Three Generations of Chinese Sovietophilia, Jianyi Yan, Honors Project
The home music environment for children, Ran Yan, Honors Project
Desert Genealogies: (De)Colonizing Conceptions of Naqab Bedouin Land and Space Under the Israeli State, Mika Yassur, Honors Project
Attitudes towards fatherhood in low income African American adolescent males, Emily Yen, Honors Project
What Makes a Requirement?: Towards Distinguishing Software Requirements from Generic Text, Sasha Yeutseyeva, 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