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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

Neuroscience

Christina Johns 12, Hope Wilson 13, Rachael Gainer 13, Grace McKay-Corkum 14 and Lisa Friedman 14J
The Effects of Anxiety and Stress on Learning and Memory in Mice
poster presentation deriving from classwork with Mary Harrington, Tippit Professor in the Life Sciences (Psychology)

Brittany Edens 13
Distinct Mechanism of Slit-Robo Attraction and Repulsion Mediate the Guidance of Astroglial Cells and Commissurall Axons in Zebrafish diencephalon
science poster session deriving from AEMES research with Michael Barresi, assistant professor of biological sciences

Shikha Goel 11, Harrison Hunter NHS, Anjana Rao 13 and Luvana Chowdhury 13
GABAA Receptor Modulation by Endozepines: A Patch-Clamp Electrophysiological Study
science poster session deriving from thesis with Adam Hall, associate professor of biological sciences

Alexis Ziemba 12 and Emily Flynn 14
Investigation of the Molecular Mechanism of Anesthetic Preconditioning in Microglia
science poster session deriving from special studies and STRIDE research with Adam Hall, associate professor of biological sciences, and Scott Edmands, postdoctoral research instructor in biological sciences

Belinda Nhundu 13 and Hajnalka Nyitrai 11J
Volatile Anesthetic Sevoflurane Affects Morphology of Murine Cortical Neurons In Vivo Inducing Neurite Retraction
science poster session deriving from special studies with Adam Hall, associate professor of biological sciences

Awa Ndiaye 11, Bushra Anis 13 and Haja Fofana 11
Chronic Interleukin 1-B: An Animal Model of Chronic Fatigue
science poster session deriving from special studies with Mary Harrington, Tippit Professor in the Life Sciences (Psychology)

Mallery Olsen 11
Is Jet Lag Stressful? The Relationships between Circadian Disruption and the Stress Response
science poster session deriving from thesis with Mary Harrington, Tippit Professor in the Life Sciences (Psychology)

Bryce Bludevich 11 and Katharine Wright 12
Genotyping of Per1-Venus Transgenic Mice as a Gene Reporter of Period 1
science poster session deriving from special studies with Mary Harrington, Tippit Professor in the Life Sciences (Psychology)

Kayla Correia 11 and Gloria Kim 13
Jet Lag-Induced Internal Desynchronization Is Associated with Deficits in Adult Neurogenesis in Mouse Hippocampus
science poster session deriving from thesis with Mary Harrington, Tippit Professor in the Life Sciences (Psychology)
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Insung Song 11
Effect of Age on Circadian Rhythm
science poster session deriving from special studies with Mary Harrington, Tippit Professor in the Life Sciences (Psychology)

Martha Luitje AC
Gap Junctions and Circadian Coupling in the Liver
science poster session deriving from thesis with Mary Harrington, Tippit Professor in the Life Sciences (Psychology)

Vanessa Raditz 12, Luvana Chowdhury 13, Fleurette Joseph 12, Evelina Federyuk 13 and Elizabeth Zampino 13
The Effect of Multiple Light Advances on Anxiety and Learning in Male and Female BALB/cJ Mice
science poster session deriving from classwork with Mary Harrington, Tippit Professor in the Life Sciences (Psychology)

Saira Huq 12, Gloria Kim 13, Alyssa Bobe AC, Abigail McElroy 13 and Emma Cooke 14
Stress and Motor Control
science poster session deriving from classwork with Mary Harrington, Tippit Professor in the Life Sciences (Psychology)

Anjana Rao 13, Bokang Rabasha 13, Bushra Anis 13, Sophia Demuynck 13 and Sophia Gambuto 13J
The Barrel Cortex of the Mouse
science poster session deriving from classwork with Mary Harrington, Tippit Professor in the Life Sciences (Psychology)

Kristen Park 13, Jennifer Chan 12 and Christina Johns 12
The Effect of Anesthetics on Beta Amyloid Pores in Blacklipid Membranes
science poster session deriving from special studies and AEMES research with Adam Hall, associate professor of biological sciences

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