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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

Geosciences

Kristen Rahilly '10
Making Rocks: Using Experimental Techniques to Constrain the Origin of Syenites
Science poster session deriving from thesis with John Brady, Mary Elizabeth Moses Professor of Geosciences

Emily Ulrich '11, Lily Maynard '11 and Marie Wallace '11
You Better Belize It: '10th Anniversary of Coral Reef Ed-Ventures
Science poster session deriving from summer field work with H. Allen Curran, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Geosciences, Susan Etheredge, associate professor in education and child study, and Paulette Peckol, Louise C. Harrington Professor of Biological Sciences

Caitlyn Thorpe '11, Madelyn Sundberg '11, Mia Schultz-Baer '11 and Kathryn Durkin '12
Post-Hurricane Recovery Analysis of East Beach and Hanna Bay Beach, San Salvador Island, The Bahamas
Science poster session deriving from classwork with H. Allen Curran, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Geosciences, and Bosiljka Glumac, associate professor of geosciences

Catherine Betances '13
Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Analysis in Provenance Studies of Yapese Stone Money Artifacts
Science poster session deriving from AEMES research with Bosiljka Glumac, associate professor of geosciences

Jennifer McNicholas AC11J and Emily Mailloux '11
Comparison of an Ancient and Modern Soil Horizon, San Salvador, Bahamas
Science poster session deriving from classwork with Bosiljka Glumac, associate professor of geosciences

Siobhan Duffey '10
Reconstructing Paleoclimate through Stratigraphic Analysis
Science poster session deriving from special studies with Bosiljka Glumac, associate professor of geosciences

Sofia Nakhnikian-Weintraub '12, Jessie Kaplan '12 and Caitlin Kennedy '11
Mollusk Predation by Polinices Snails from Haitian Boat Beach on San Salvador, Bahamas
Science poster session deriving from classwork with Sara Pruss, assistant professor of geosciences, Bosiljka Glumac, associate professor of geosciences, and H. Allen Curran, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Geosciences

Miriam Froneberger '13
Marbles as a Potential Local Source for Yapese Stone Money
Science poster session deriving from research assistantship with Bosiljka Glumac, associate professor of geosciences

Megan Beyer '13 and Katie Castagno '12
Carbonate Black Pebbles in the Paleosol at the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary at Bamboo Point, San Salvador, Bahamas
Science poster session deriving from classwork with Bosiljka Glumac, associate professor of geosciences, and H. Allen Curran, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Geosciences

Jessica Weigand '13
Earliest Skeletal Organisms from the Nama Group, Southern Namibia
Science poster session deriving from AEMES research with Sara Pruss, assistant professor of geosciences

Lilly Dalton '12
Life after Snowball Earth: Analysis of the Rasthof Formation, Okaaru, Northern Namibia
Science poster session deriving from AEMES research with Sara Pruss, assistant professor of geosciences

Sarah Motti '10
Examination of Predation Rates on a Tidal Flat, Cat Island, Bahamas
Science poster session deriving from special studies with Sara Pruss, assistant professor of geosciences

Hannah Clemente '11
It Takes a Reef to Raise Carbonate Production: The Role of Archaeocyathid Reefs in Carbonate Production During the Cambrian
Science poster session deriving from special studies with Sara Pruss, assistant professor of geosciences

Katie Castagno '12
Geochemical Examination of the Cambro-Ordovician Cow Head Group Carbonates in Western Newfoundland
Science poster session deriving from STRIDE research with Sara Pruss, assistant professor of geosciences

Katherine Meek '10 and Caroline Wise '10
The Role of Bedrock Geology and Forest Canopy on Soil Chemistry at the MacLeish Field Station
Science poster session deriving from classwork with Amy Rhodes, associate professor of geosciences
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Caroline Wise '10
Biodiversity and Aqueous Geochemistry of Vernal Pools in the Mt. Holyoke Range
Science poster session deriving from classwork with Amy Rhodes, associate professor of geosciences

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