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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

Kahn Institute

Maggie Dethloff '10
Enrique Chagoya's Non-Linear Narrative Art
Mock exhibition presentation deriving from Kahn Institute Project "Telling Time: Its Meaning and Measurement" with Bosiljka Glumac, associate professor of geosciences, and Richard Lim, professor of history

Brigid Fitzgerald '10
Urban Environmentalism and Imagining Futures
PowerPoint presentation deriving from Kahn Institute Project "Telling Time: Its Meaning and Measurement" with Bosiljka Glumac, associate professor of geosciences, and Richard Lim, professor of history
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Emily Earl-Royal '10
Dowry-Related Domestic Violence and its Treatment in India
PowerPoint presentation deriving from Kahn Institute Project "Wellness and Disease" with Benita Jackson, assistant professor of psychology, and Mary Harrington, Tippit Professor in the Life Sciences
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Jessica Magyar '10
How Medical Arts Therapy Affects and Shapes Experiences with Illness
PowerPoint presentation deriving from Kahn Institute Project "Wellness and Disease" with Benita Jackson, assistant professor of psychology, and Mary Harrington, Tippit Professor in the Life Sciences
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Meenakshi Menon '10
Tracking Malaria and Dengue Fever in Battambang and Ratankiri Provinces in the Kingdom of Cambodia
PowerPoint presentation deriving from Kahn Institute Project "Wellness and Disease" with Benita Jackson, assistant professor of psychology, and Mary Harrington, Tippit Professor in the Life Sciences

Sarah Miller '10
Treatments, Responses and Discourses: Illicit Oxycontin Use and Dependence in Rural America
PowerPoint presentation deriving from Kahn Institute Project "Wellness and Disease" with Benita Jackson, assistant professor of psychology, and Mary Harrington, Tippit Professor in the Life Sciences

Margaret Mumbi Mongare '10
The Impact of Health Policies on Maternal Health Care in South Africa
PowerPoint presentation deriving from Kahn Institute Project "Wellness and Disease" with Benita Jackson, assistant professor of psychology, and Mary Harrington, Tippit Professor in the Life Sciences

Kiran Jandu '10
Development Paradigms for Water Management
PowerPoint presentation deriving from Kahn Institute Project "Wellness and Disease" with Benita Jackson, assistant professor of psychology, and Mary Harrington, Tippit Professor in the Life Sciences
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Mathematics & Statistics

Rebecca Benhart GR, Heidi Goodson GR and Michelle Winerip GR
Convergence to Rhombic Tiling in Phyllotaxis: An Exploration in the Dynamical Systems of Plant Formation
Science poster session deriving from classwork with Christophe Golé, professor of mathematics and statistics
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Kimberly Lockrow GR
How Many Guards? Exponential Domination in Graphs
Science poster session deriving from research course with Ruth Haas, professor of mathematics and statistics

Zehui Chen '10J, Shannon McDonough GR and Isabel Sheng 09
Experimental Design and Analysis of the Cobra Laser
Science poster session deriving from special studies with Katherine Halvorsen, professor of mathematics and statistics
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Priscah Cheruiyot '10, Judy-Lara Levinsohn GR10, Amanda Tapia GR10, Ma Thida '11 and Xiao Ting Zhao GR
Composite Outcomes in Clinical Trials: Guidelines for Investigation
Science poster session deriving from classwork with Nicholas Horton, associate professor of mathematics and statistics

Cyla O'Connor AC, Rebbecca Wilson GR and Portia Parker '10
Improving the Performance of Survival Models with Missing Predictors: Making the Best Use of Available Information
Science poster session deriving from special studies with Nicholas Horton, associate professor of mathematics and statistics

Tanya Hakim '12
Does Participation in the Smith Summer Research Fellows Program Encourage Pursuit of Advanced Degrees in the Sciences?
Science poster session deriving from STRIDE research with Nicholas Horton, associate professor of mathematics and statistics
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Hannah Kegley '12 and Stephanie Greenlaw '13
Traversing the Northampton Countryside
Science poster session deriving from STRIDE research with Nicholas Horton, associate professor of mathematics and statistics

Sylvia Naples GR
A Graph Theoretical Approach to Supersymmetry
Science poster session deriving from post baccalaureate research with Greg Landweber, assistant professor of mathematics, Bard College

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