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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

Landscape Studies

Kassia Rudd 11
Developing a Method for Chronicling Historic Landscape Change: A Case Study of the Mill River Watershed
science poster session deriving from special studies with Reid Bertone-Johnson, lecturer in landscape studies

Latin American and Latino/a Studies

Elizabeth Tuttle 11
A Case Study of Women's Roles within Latin America's Largest Social Movement
PowerPoint presentation deriving from thesis with Malcolm McNee, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese
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Linguistics

Caitlin Carr 11
Who, What, Where, When, Why?  And How.  The Use of Language Software to Improve Deaf Students' Language Acquisition
science poster session deriving from special studies with Peter de Villiers, Sophia and Austin Smith Professor of Psychology
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Mathematics and Statistics

Betsy Cowdery GR, Allison Reed-Harris GR and Jayna Resman GR
The Geometry and Dynamics of an Ecological Arms Race
PowerPoint presentation deriving from classwork with Christophe Golé, professor of mathematics and statistics
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Jayna Resman GR
The Mathematics of Climate Change: An Ice-Albedo Feedback Model
PowerPoint presentation deriving from classwork with Christophe Golé, professor of mathematics and statistics
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Belen Cruz 14, Caitlin Hunter 13 and Joo Yeon Shin 13
Back to the Future: Reconstructing Plant Meristem Patterns
science poster session deriving from STRIDE, AEMES, and student  research with Christophe Golé, professor of mathematics and statistics, and Denise Lello, lecturer in biological sciences

Peace Young 12, Xizhu Zhao 12 and Kasama Euchukanonchai 12
Case Study: 2010 BP Oil Spill
science poster session deriving from classwork with Nicholas Horton, associate professor of mathematics and statistics

Ma Thida 11
Brain Signal (MEG) Analysis Using Statistical Tools
science poster session deriving from summer research with Nicholas Horton, associate professor of mathematics and statistics

Huong Giang Nguyen 13, Linh Dinh 13 and Wenyue Yang 12
Novel Method of Analysis for DPOAE Magnitude and Phase
science poster session deriving from special studies with Nicholas Horton, associate professor of mathematics and statistics

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