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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 2011 event featured the work of 404 students who participated in 252 presentations, with the guidance of 126 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.

African Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Archives Concentration, Art

Biochemistry, Biological Sciences

Center for Community Collaboration, Chemistry, Classics, Comparative Literature, Computer
Science

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

Engineering, English
Language & Literature

Environmental Science & Policy, Exercise & Sport Studies, Film Studies,
First Year Seminar, French Studies

Geosciences, Global
Learning Seminar,
Government

History, Interdepartmental Programs, Internships,
Italian Language &
Literature, Jewish Studies,
Kahn Institute

Landscape Studies, Latin American & Latino/a
Studies, Linguistics,
Mathematics & Statistics

Museums Concentration,
Music

Neuroscience

Philosophy, Physics,
Poetry Concentration, Psychology

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

Center for Community Collaboration

Gabrielle Caballero 13, Dylan Farrell 12 and Zemorah Tevah HC
Hunger, Scarcity and Wealth: The Food Policy Council in Springfield
panel presentation deriving from classwork with Elisabeth Armstrong, associate professor of the study of women and gender
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Laura Malecky 13 and Anna Hallman 13
Community Kitchen and Youth Urban Gardening in Springfield
panel and film presentation deriving from classwork with Elisabeth Armstrong, associate professor of the study of women and gender
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Ilana Alazzeh 11
Food and Faith
PowerPoint presentation deriving from classwork with Elisabeth Armstrong, associate professor of the study of women and gender
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Allison Langley 13 and Erin Kassis UMass
Turning Brownfields into Greenfields: Combating Food Insecurity through Urban Agriculture
panel presentation deriving from classwork with Elisabeth Armstrong, associate professor of the study of women and gender
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Chemistry

Amelia Evans 11
Controlling Nanotopography and Surface Functionalization of Silicon Surfaces
PowerPoint presentation deriving from thesis with Kate Queeney, associate professor of chemistry
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Anna Valentine 11 and Lexiaochuan Wen 12
Clay-Catalyzed Natural Product Synthesis: Investigation of an Environmentally Friendly Synthesis of Vanillin Using Montmorillonite Clay
science poster session deriving from thesis and special studies with Lâle Burk, senior lecturer in chemistry
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Risha Sinha 14 and Aaline Ahmad 14
Analysis of Fluorinated Anesthetics Using Laser Spectroscopy
science poster session deriving from AEMES research with Shizuka Hsieh, associate professor of chemistry
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Joohyun Park 11
Structural Determination of DNA Lesion Via 2-D NMR
science poster session deriving from thesis with Elizabeth Jamieson, associate professor of chemistry

Carmen Say 11
Slimy Chemistry: Analyzing the Effects of Surface Topography and Surface Chemistry on Biofilm Adhesion
science poster session deriving from thesis with Kate Queeney, associate professor of chemistry, and Robert Dorit, associate professor of biological sciences

Jasmine Wallas 11
Determining the Governing Forces in Alginate Adsorption
science poster session deriving from special studies with Kate Queeney, associate professor of chemistry

Cristina Santarossa 11
FTIR in situ Investigation of Biofilm Adsorption
science poster session deriving from thesis with Kate Queeney, associate professor of chemistry

Keturah Edwards 11, Erena Farah Ousman 11, Meredith Hoddinott 12 and Sarah Rothstein 12
Synthesis of Novel Cationic Diels-Alder Dienophile Stabilized by Adjacent Cobalt Complexed Alkynes
science poster session deriving from special studies with Kevin Shea, associate professor of chemistry
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Sarah Perlmutter 11, Catriona Blunt 12 and Aubrey Graham 12
Development of a Tandem Diels-Adler/Pauson-Khand Strategy for the Synthesis of Tetracycles
science poster session deriving from thesis with Kevin Shea, associate professor of chemistry

Wenxin Cai 12, Colby Loew 13 and Madihah Salim 13
Using Liposomes to Characterize the Potential Cation Transport Properties of Cyclic Peptide Dimers
science poster session deriving from special studies with Cristina Suarez, associate professor of chemistry

Classics

Stella Schwartz 11
Conserving the Caverno Antiquities
PowerPoint presentation deriving from special studies with Scott Bradbury, professor of classics
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Comparative Literature

Elyse Martin 11
"Citizen, My Mother Is the Republic": Gendered Notions of Heroism in 19th Century Novels about the French Revolution
paper presentation deriving from thesis with Elizabeth Harries, Helen and Laura Shedd Professor Emerita of Modern Languages (English and Comparative Literature)
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Julia Whiting 14
From Political Protest to Police Support: Gavin Hood's Problematic Film Adaptation of Tsotsi
paper presentation deriving from classwork with Katwiwa Mule, associate professor of comparative literature

Mia Stange 14
Finding Home within Herself: Identity and Power in African Female Narratives
paper presentation deriving from classwork with Katwiwa Mule, associate professor of comparative literature
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Abby Sprenkle 14
Revisioning Tsotsi: Gavin Hood Cannibalization of Athal Fugard's Tsotsi
paper presentation deriving from classwork with Katwiwa Mule, associate professor of comparative literature

Ruth Spurlock 11
Revolutionary Figures: Alexander Blok and Federico Garcia Lorca
paper presentation deriving from special studies with Maria Banerjee, professor of Russian language and literature

Computer Science

Shanila Sattar 12J
Chaos and Emergence
video presentation deriving from special studies with Judy Franklin, associate professor of computer science
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Yang Li 11
Fixing Gaps in Protein Structural Data Using Inverse Kinematics
science poster session deriving from thesis with Ileana Streinu, Charles N. Clark Professor of Computer Science

Claire Ma 13, Sonia Brown 14, Helen Queenan 14 and Jane Turner 13
Beach Creatures in the Linkage Lab
science poster session deriving from STRIDE and AEMES research with Ileana Streinu, Charles N. Clark Professor of Computer Science

Betsy Cowdery GR, Lindsey Gregor 12 and Aigerim Karabekova 12
Geo-Tracking Smith
science poster session deriving from special studies and classwork with Dominique Thiébaut, associate professor of computer science

Elizabeth Do 11
Analytics and Art
science poster session deriving from thesis with Dominique Thiébaut, associate professor of computer science, and Eitan Mendelowitz, assistant professor of computer science

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