Honors Projects
Analysis of natural products from Neurolama lobata as candidate antifilarial agents against the parasitic nematode Brugia pahangi, Kristine Louise Trotta, Honors Project
Bridging the Gap: The Connections Between the Socioeconomic Disparities in Early Childhood Language Exposure, Brain Structure and Executive Function, Sadie Tschider, Honors Project
Virtue and talent : can women in late Imperial China have both?, Bella Tseeva, Honors Project
Investigating the evolution of Wolbachia spp.- derived genes in the genome of Wolbachia-independent filarial nematodes, Eirini Tsekitsidou, Honors Project
A biogeographic comparison of cuticle thickness, claw resistance to breakage, and genetic variation in the invasive European green crab Carcinus maenas, Sarah Jeanne Tucker, Honors Project
Between theory and practice : a case study of women's roles within the Landless Workers Movement : Paus Branco, 25 de Maio settlement, Ceará, Brazill, Elizabeth Ruth Tuttle, Honors Project
Synthesis of an alkyne-conjugated neurolenin derivative for use in biological click-chemistry experiments, Anisha Tyagi, Honors Project
A study of geomorphologic and geochemical evidence for prehistoric floods from Paulina Lake in Newberry Crater, Central Oregon, Heather Elizabeth Upin, Honors Project
Security and privacy issues in the smart grid : a decentralized approach, Angela Upreti, Honors Project
Clay-catalyzed natural products synthesis : an investigation of a green organic synthesis of vanillin using montmorillonite clay, Anna Margaret Valentine, Honors Project
Mn(CO)₅R : why are the carbonyls leaning?, Amelia Catherine Valladares, Honors Project
Carlos Martiel As/Against the Posthuman: Subaltern Corporeal Realities, Henne Van Campen, Honors Project
Development of a tandem Diels-Alder/Pauson-Khand strategy for the synthesis of tetracycles, Natalie Vaninov, Honors Project
Gene regulation in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, Nhi My Van, Honors Project
Alcohol consumption and drinking game participation among high school students : what they think and why they drink, Kathryne C. Van Tyne, Honors Project
Priming ambiguous images : ǂb are facial expressions special?, Elizabeth Grace Van Winkle, Honors Project
The interim solution : the Nazification of Hamburg's Germanistik and the existence of the German university under National Socialism, Chloe Paige Vaughn, Honors Project
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, Advik D. Vira, Honors Project
Accuracy of DNA pairing by the RecA protein : proof of concept for a RecA gene chip, Julea Michelle Vlassakis, Honors Project
Saint Patrick, Satire, and Survival: Irish Poets Beyond Brehon Law, Amy Vo, 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
Development of DNA Origami Exoskeletons and Cationic Cores Toward Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Targeted Therapeutics, Justine Wagaman, 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
Contentious Politics in China, Jinghan 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
The Role of Gpr37 in the Developing and Regenerating Retina, Yuqi K. 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
Synthesizing Perspectives on Sesquiterpene Lactones: A Mechanistic Elucidation of Anthelmintic Properties in Neurolenins, Beatrice Wendling, 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
MS-ESI Analysis of Glyoxal, Methyl Glyoxal, and Hydroxy Acetone - Salt Systems to Model Atmospheric Product Formation, Cecilia Wheeler, 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
Construction of a Blue Neutral Cesium-133 Magneto-Optical Trap, Madison Whitmore, Honors Project
Towards an Enzyme Mimic through DNA-Palladium Conjugation, Emma Whittemore, 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
Visualizing Fluorescent Fusion Protein Fate by Cell-Cycle Induced Recombination, Abigail Wilcox, 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
Regional Propaganda at the Frontline: A Comparative Analysis of How Three Russian Governors' War Propaganda Varies with Proximity to the Ukraine Conflict, Lilia Wong, 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