Honors Projects
“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
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
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
Site-Specific Protein-Polymer Conjugation with Activated Ester Polymers for Targeted Cancer Therapy, Jiyun 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
Private or Public Support? The Impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme on Intergenerational Support in Rural China, Zixuan 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
Development and Analysis of a Quasi Two-Dimensional Numerical Model for a Coaxial Geothermal Heat Exchanger, Xinyue Zou, 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
An Areal Study and Petrographic Description of the Triassic Igneous and Sedimentary Rocks of the Black Rock Area, South Hadley, Massachusetts, Rachel M. Barker, Honors Thesis
Using genetic algorithms to incorporate antibiotic resistance in the modeling of tuberculosis in the United States, Ellie Mainou, Honors Thesis