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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 2010 event featured the work of 328 students who participated in 205 presentations, with the guidance of 102 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

Biochemistry

Biological Sciences

Chemistry

Computer Science, Dance,
East Asian Languages &
Literatures, Economics,
Education & Child Study

Engineering

English Language &
Literature, Environmental Science & Policy, Exercise & Sport Studies, Film Studies,
French Studies

Geosciences

German Studies,
Government, History

Kahn Institute,
Mathematics & Statistics

Museum Studies, Museums Concentration

Neuroscience

Philosophy, Physics,
Psychology

Religion, Smith Studies,
Sociology, Spanish
Language & Literature,
Study of Women & Gender,
Theatre

Biological Sciences

Jenna Zukswert '13
Comparison of Tsuga canadensis and Pinus strobus Population Structure at the Smith College MacLeish Field Station, Whately, MA
Science poster session deriving from independent research with Jesse Bellemare, assistant professor of biological sciences
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Alison Montgomery '10
Algal Blooms: Renewable Resource or Environmental Chaos?
Science poster session deriving from special studies with Jesse Bellemare, assistant professor of biological sciences

Shannon Pettit '12 and Arianne Flick '12
Coat Color and Body Size: Relationships Across Subspecies in Peromyscus Deer Mice
Science poster session deriving from STRIDE research with Virginia Hayssen, professor of biological sciences

Anastasia Gant '11
Identifying the Life Cycle and Classification of a Novel Organism with Similarities to Vampyrellidae
Science poster session deriving from special studies with Laura A. Katz, Elsie Damon Simonds Professor of Biological Sciences

Meaghan Hall '10
Ciliate Molecular Phylogeny and Speciation
Science poster session deriving from thesis with Laura A. Katz, Elsie Damon Simonds Professor of Biological Sciences

Samantha Torquato '11 and Ruth Kiros '11J
Sequencing LDH in the Red-Spotted Newt: An Exploration of Restricted Subunit Association
Science poster session deriving from special studies with Robert Merritt, professor of biological sciences, and Laura A. Katz, Elsie Damon Simonds Professor of Biological Sciences

Dominique Barbeau '11
Insights into the Evolution of Heterolobosea from Multigene Molecular Analyses
Science poster session deriving from Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Project with Laura A. Katz, Elsie Damon Simonds Professor of Biological Sciences

Jian Hua Lin '11 and Gladys Palaguachi '12
Exploring the Diversity of Eukaryotic Microbes in Saline Lakes of San Salvador
Science poster session deriving from classwork with Laura A. Katz, Elsie Damon Simonds Professor of Biological Sciences

Jennifer DeBerardinis '11
Heterogeneous Rates of Evolution Among Loci in Ciliate Chilodonella uncinata
Science poster session deriving from special studies with Laura A. Katz, Elsie Damon Simonds Professor of Biological Sciences

Emily Hart '10
Characterization of Feeds for Marine Fish Aquaculture
PowerPoint presentation deriving from special studies with Paulette Peckol, Louise C. Harrington Professor of Biological Sciences

Weam Zaky GR
Gene Expression of Endosymbiont Bacteria in Filaria, Brugia malayi
PowerPoint presentation deriving from thesis with Steven Williams, Gates Professor of Biological Sciences
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Camila Fierro '10 and Kara Munsey '10
Investigating Nature: A Film by Two Curious Biology Undergrads
DVD presentation deriving from special studies with Virginia Hayssen, professor of biological sciences

Emily Hart '10
Characterization of Feeds for Marine Fish Aquaculture
Science poster session deriving from special studies with Paulette Peckol, Louise C. Harrington Professor of Biological Sciences
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Alison Montgomery '10
Bioremediation of Uranium Mining Waste
Science poster session deriving from special studies with Paulette Peckol, Louise C. Harrington Professor of Biological Sciences, and Kenneth Hurst Williams, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Joanna Domenicali-Shah '12
Marine Mammal Strandings: Where and Why They Occur
Science poster session deriving from AEMES research with Paulette Peckol, Louise C. Harrington Professor of Biological Sciences

Rachael Stein '12
A Crushing Dilemma: Testing for Crab Feeding Performance and Snail Vulnerability Among Populations Over Time
Science poster session deriving from special studies and SURF fellowship with L. David Smith, associate professor of biological sciences

Yisi Lu '12
Pushed to the Breaking Point: Testing for Geographic Differences in Claw Cuticle Thickness and Strength in an Invasive Marine Crab
Science poster session deriving from special studies and SURF fellowship with L. David Smith, associate professor of biological sciences
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Carolyn Whiting '10
Exploring Iridescence in New Tropical Fern Species
Science poster session deriving from special studies with Carolyn Wetzel, assistant professor of biological sciences

Pamela Cote '10
The Short Term Adaptation to Human Body Temperature by Excherichia coli
Science poster session deriving from special studies with Christine White-Ziegler, associate professor of biological sciences

Robin Welsh '11
Microarray Analysis of Brugia malayi L3 Parasites
Science poster session deriving from thesis with Steven Williams, Gates Professor of Biological Sciences

Francesca Tomaino '10
Optimizing Filarial Diagnostic RT-PCR Assays
Science poster session deriving from independent research with Steven Williams, Gates Professor of Biological Sciences, and Sandra Laney, research associate in biological sciences
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