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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

Kahn Institute

Meredith Byers '10, Samaiya Ewing AC09, Dara Kaye '09, Mikaela Mroczynski '09 and Elizabeth Pusack '09
Deceit: The Uses of Transparency and Concealment
Panel presentation deriving from Kahn Institute Project "Deceit: The Uses of Transparency and Concealment" with Mlada Bukovansky, associate professor of government

Olivia Cummings '09, Emma Ensign '10, Molly Hamer '10, Hannah Leung '09, Jeannette Quinn AC09, Anna White-Nockleby '09 and Emily Wolfe Roubatis '09
A Festival of Disorder
Panel presentation deriving from Kahn Institute Project "A Festival of Disorder" with Elisabeth Armstrong, assistant professor of the study of women and gender, and Marjorie Senechal, Louise Wolff Kahn Professor Emerita in Mathematics and History of Science and Technology

Landscape Studies

Kate Cholakis '10
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Six Decades of Sustainable Design
PowerPoint presentation deriving from Praxis internship with Nina Antonetti, assistant professor of landscape studies

Matthea Daughtry '09
Re-Imagining the Ada and Archibald MacLeish Field Station
PowerPoint presentation deriving from special studies with Reid Bertone-Johnson, lecturer in landscape studies

Mathematics and Statistics

Rebecca Tramel '09, Alison McDonough '10J and Priscah Cheruiyot '10
De Bruijn Sequences and Linear Recurrences
Science poster session deriving from SURF with Michael Bush, visiting assistant professor of mathematics and statistics

Ella Hartenian '11 and Tanya Hakim '12
Have Rail Trails Increased the Value of Your Home?
Science poster session deriving from STRIDE research with Nicholas Horton, associate professor of mathematics and statistics
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Cyla O'Connor AC, Maria Terres GR, Shannon McDonough GR, Sarah Rathnam GR, Kristin Tyler '09 and Portia Parker '10
Missing Data Procedures in Survival Analysis
Science poster session deriving from special studies with Nicholas Horton, associate professor of mathematics and statistics

Kristin Tyler '09
The Use and Abuse of Multiple Outcomes in Randomized Controlled Trials of Depression
Science poster session deriving from special studies with Nicholas Horton, associate professor of mathematics and statistics

Music

Kirin McElwain '09
Does It Matter Who's Listening? How Performers Are Affected By Specific Audiences
Music performance deriving from work with Judith Gordon, assistant professor of music

Magdalene Rascoe '10
Anticipating a Celebratory 100 Years of Music at Smith
Music performance deriving from internship with Jane Bryden, Iva Dee Hiatt Professor of Music, and Clifton J. Noble, piano

Marissa Cyr '09
Poetry to Song: 20th Century Composers Interpret the Words of Langston Hughes
Music performance deriving from classwork with Karen Smith-Emerson, Elsie Irwin Sweeney Professor of Music

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