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Celebrating Collaboration

Smith College’s annual showcase of student research and performance highlights students’ intellectual achievements and their collaborative efforts with faculty in a variety of departmental, program and interdisciplinary projects. It is a celebration of liberal arts education.

The 2009 event featured the work of 257 students who participated in 153 presentations, with the guidance of 104 faculty members. Students participated in individual talks, panels, poster sessions, exhibits and performances, in the areas of science and technology, performing arts, and social, cultural and literary studies.

American Studies, American Studies Diploma Program, Art, Astronomy

Biological Sciences

Chemistry

Classical Languages & Literatures, Comparative Literature, Computer
Science

Dance, Economics,
Education & Child Study

Engineering

English Language &
Literature, Film Studies,
First Year Seminar, French Studies

Geosciences

German Studies,
Government, History, Internships, Italian
Language & Literature

Kahn Institute, Landscape Studies, Mathematics & Statistics, Music

Physics

Psychology

Smithipedia, Sociology, Spanish Language &
Literature, Study of Women & Gender

Engineering

Chin Yen Tee '11
Quantifying the Cost of Wind Power Variability on a Transmission Network; science poster session deriving from research assistance with Judith Cardell, Clare Boothe Luce Associate Professor of Computer Engineering

Shannon Comiskey '09, Ilda Dule '10, Darcy Dwyer '11, Sari Field '09, Sangay Kazi '09, Katherine MacKenzie '11, Bhavna Mungur '12, Courtney Murphy '11, Nancy Orth '09, Prateek Rajbhandari HC and Jingxin Wu '12
Applied Design and Phototyping; science poster session deriving from classwork in IDP 250 with Susannah Howe, design clinic director, and Eric Jensen, manager of the Center for Design and Fabrication
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Jillian Bauer '09, Sangay Kazi '09, Zhi Min Lin '09 and Nasheeta Sarwar '09
Design Concepts for a User-Friendly Blood Glucose Monitor; science poster session deriving from classwork in Engineering Design Clinic sponsored by LifeScan with Susannah Howe, design clinic director, and Linda Jones, Rosemary Bradford Hewlett 1940 Professor of Engineering

Teresa Berra '09, Emily Burks '09, Chiaré Hwang '09 and Alisa Stratulat '09
Design of a System for 3D Tracking of Personnel; science poster session deriving from classwork in Engineering Design Clinic sponsored by MIT Lincoln Laboratory with Susannah Howe, design clinic director, and Denise McKay, assistant professor of engineering

Stephanie Anderson '09, Sarah Armstrong '09, Kristyn Hall '09 and Marni Mallari '09
Design of Alternatives to Treat Dairy Milkhouse Washwater; science poster session deriving from classwork in Engineering Design Clinic sponsored by the Natural Resources Conservation Service with Susannah Howe, design clinic director, and Andrew Guswa, associate professor of engineering

Najia Ahmed '09, Joyce Cheung '09, Perditha Sloan '09 and Marice Uy '09
Design of a Flow Measurement System for Avery Brook; science poster session deriving from classwork in Engineering Design Clinic sponsored by the Northampton Department of Public Works with Susannah Howe, design clinic director, and Andrew Guswa, associate professor of engineering

Shannon Comiskey '09, Sari Field '09, Erica Kibbe '09 and Akosua Taylor '09
Design of an Automobile Suspension System for the Vehicle Design Summit Initiative; science poster session deriving from classwork in Engineering Design Clinic sponsored by the Vehicle Design Summit and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance with Susannah Howe, design clinic director, and Denise McKay, assistant professor of engineering

Etta Grover-Silva '10, Sari Field '09, Whitney McMackin '10 and Jillian Bauer '09
Smith VDS: Designing and Building Green Transportation
paper presentation deriving from work with Denise McKay, assistant professor of engineering

Sari Field '09
Toward Vehicular Sustainability
PowerPoint presentation deriving from thesis with Denise McKay, assistant professor of engineering

Lynnea Domienik '09, Kalen Wheeler '10 and Olivia Cummings '09
Negotiating Red and Green: How the Labor and Environmental Movements Can Work Together
PowerPoint presentation deriving from special studies with Donna Riley, associate professor of engineering

Katherine MacKenzie '11 and Alexandra Deahl '11
Efficient Building Research and Energy Analysis for the Westhampton Library; science poster session deriving from special studies with Paul Voss, assistant professor of engineering
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Gabrielle Merchant '09
Normative Energy Reflectance Measurements in Newborn and One-Month-Old Infants; science poster session deriving from thesis with Susan Voss, associate professor of engineering, and Nicholas Horton, associate professor of mathematics and statistics
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