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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

Engineering

Peace Young 12, Xizhu Zhao 12, Megan Lonsdale 13 and Rajiha Mehdi 13
Design and Fabrication of the Cargo Cycle
PowerPoint presentation deriving from Engineers for a Sustainable World and Vehicle Design Summit with Denise McKahn, assistant professor of engineering
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Jayna Shea 12 and Mary Clark McGrath 13
The Effect of Myostatin Deficiency on Murine Tendon Material Behavior
PowerPoint presentation deriving from summer research and special studies with Borjana Mikic, Rosemary Bradford Hewlett 1940 Professor (Engineering)
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Lindsay Holle 11
The Implications of Emerging Energy Policies on the New York State Electric Power Grid
science poster session deriving from thesis with Judith Cardell, Clare Boothe Luce Associate Professor of Computer Engineering

Caitlin Spence 11
Investigating Throughfall Spatial Variability at the MacLeish Field Station
science poster session deriving from thesis with Andrew Guswa, associate professor of engineering

Sage Brown 13 and Sarah Pedicini 11
Documenting Design through Sketching
science poster session deriving from special studies with Susannah Howe, director of the design clinic and lecturer in engineering

Chelsea Andrews 11 and Iris González 11
Design of an Automated, Rapid, Tissue Processing System
science poster session deriving from classwork in Engineering Design Clinic sponsored by Energy Beam Sciences with Susannah Howe, director of the design clinic and lecturer in engineering

Leah Flake 11, Amna Sarfraz 11 and Caitlin Spence 11
System Designed to Integrate Earth Science Data and Forestry Models for Improved Ecosystem and Carbon Management
science poster session deriving from classwork in Engineering Design Clinic sponsored by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center with Susannah Howe, director of the design clinic and lecturer in engineering, and Donna Riley, associate professor of engineering

Elizabeth Isenstein 11, Salma Mehter 11 and Madeleine Smith 11
Design of a Stormwater Runoff Treatment System and Development of a Stormwater Treatment Guide
science poster session deriving from classwork in Engineering Design Clinic sponsored by the Natural Resources Conservation Service with Susannah Howe, director of the design clinic and lecturer in engineering, and Cloelle Sausville-Giddings, lecturer in engineering

Darcy Dwyer 11 and Lindsay Holle 11
Evaluation and Design for Renewable Energy at the Northampton Landfill
science poster session deriving from classwork in Engineering Design Clinic sponsored by the Northampton Department of Public Works with Susannah Howe, director of the design clinic and lecturer in engineering, and Cloelle Sausville-Giddings, lecturer in engineering

Katherine MacKenzie 11, Courtney Murphy 11, Sarah Pedicini 11 and Salomé Stulberg 11
Design and Development of a Submersible, Autonomous, Rn-222 Survey System
science poster session deriving from classwork in Engineering Design Clinic sponsored by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute with Susannah Howe, director of the design clinic and lecturer in engineering, and Donna Riley, associate professor of engineering

Jayna Shea 12 and Mary Clark McGrath 13
The Effect of Myostatin Deficiency on Murine Tendon Material Behavior
science poster session deriving from summer research and special studies with Borjana Mikic, Rosemary Bradford Hewlett 1940 Professor (Engineering)

Heidi Waugh 12J and Sophie Mettler-Grove 13
Gendered Boundaries in the Discipline of Engineering
science poster session deriving from special studies with Donna Riley, associate professor of engineering

Victoria Henry 13J and Genevieve de Mijolla 13
Engineering for Education: A Library for Teenage Mothers in Peru
science poster session deriving from special studies with Paul Voss, assistant professor of engineering

Sarah Weber 13
Optimizing Flight with a Variable Pitch Propeller
science poster session deriving from special studies with Paul Voss, assistant professor of engineering

English Language and Literature

Ellen Cormier 11
"Your Very Own Sivvy": The Editing and Emendation of Sylvia Plath's Letters, 1952-1955
paper presentation deriving from special studies with Karen Kukil, associate curator of special collections, and Michael Thurston, professor of English language and literature

Cornelia Beckett 14
Spark of Wit
paper presentation deriving from work with Robert Hosmer, senior lecturer in English language and literature

Anne-Catherine Berrut-Marechaud GR
The Self and the Feminine within the Poetical Text
poetry reading deriving from thesis with Susan Van Dyne, professor of the study of women and gender
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Lauren Egbert 11 and Hayley Raetz 12
Words Edge: Poetry by Lauren Egbert '11 and Hayley Raetz '12
poetry reading deriving from special studies with Ann Boutelle, Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence

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