During the 2008-2009 academic year, 36 Hobart and William Smith students successfully completed Honors projects. This is the largest number of students completing honors since 2000. They were recognized, along with their advisers, at a Porch Party given by Provost and Dean of Faculty Teresa Amott. Their accomplishments were also noted in this year’s Commencement program.
The Hobart and William Smith Honors Program allows students to complete work at the most sustained and sophisticated level available in the Colleges’ curriculum. Qualified students take two or three self-designed courses that concentrate on the same project and are guided throughout their exploration by a faculty adviser.
In addition to the culminating Honors project, usually a research or critical paper or its counterpart in the creative arts is produced. Each Honors candidate also takes a written examination in their Honors field and an oral examination that covers both the Honors project and the written examination.
Receiving Honors this year are:
Sarah E. Allen, Geoscience
Paleobotany: A Florule from the Base of the Hell Creek Formation in the Type Area of Eastern Montana: Implications for Diversity, Climate and Environment
Nan Arens, Adviser
Alison H. Art, Psychology
Increasing Stamina to Combat Racial Anxiety in Interracial Interactions
Jonathan Iuzzini, Adviser
Marisa A. Athas, Sociology
Women in the Military: Breaking Down the Barriers to Get into the Barracks
Jack Harris, Adviser
Tara A. Gentile, Psychology
Individual Differences in Empathic Accuracy: Personality and Romantic Relationships
Jonathan Iuzzini, Adviser
Bradley P. Gordon, American Studies
Access and Education: Retaining Vermont’s Human Capital and Social Integrity Through Higher Education
Jack Harris, Adviser
Ross W. Green, Public Policy
Health Care Trauma: Can We Solve the Health Care Crisis?
Craig Rimmerman, Adviser
Alicia H. Gregory, English
With: Elegies
Lauren K. Alleyne, Adviser
Alexandra E. Haseotes, Psychology
All Girls: The Effect of Academic Environment on the Values of High School Females
Ron Gerrard, Adviser
Sara B. Henegan, Africana Studies
It Ain’t Necessarily So: The Post-Racial Myth in the Age of Obama
Thelma Pinto, Adviser
Kimberly A. Hlavac. Chemistry
Toward a Solid-Phase Protocol for the Synthesis of Potential Anticancer Agents Spiruchostatin A-D
Justin S. Miller, Adviser
Courtney A. Jones, Studio Art
The Aesthetic of the Sublime: An Investigation of Formal Beauty and Energetic Violence Through Mixed Media Painting
Nicholas Ruth, Adviser
Kathryn A. Klutts, Economics
Increasing Profits is Not Enough: An Analysis of the Role of Society in Guiding Corporate Social Responsibility
Christopher Gunn, Adviser
Kathryn N. Lawton, History
The New York City Draft Riots and Class: Public and Governmental Interpretations
Laura Free, Adviser
Katherine C. Marshall, Psychology
The Kindergarten Literacy Initiative Project: A Look into the Factors Associated with Early Literacy of Incoming Kindergarteners
Julie Kingery, Adviser
Bailey A. Meeker, Mathematics
A Mathematical Model of Celiac Disease
Jonathan Forde, Adviser
Oliver H. Meeker, Sociology
One Viet Nam – Post War Memories and Future Aspirations
Jack D. Harris, Adviser
Samantha B. Miller, Sociology
Alcohol Use, Sexual Decision Making, and Perceived Stigma Among College Women
H. Wesley Perkins, Adviser
Galina Mukomolova, English: Creative Writing
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David Weiss, Adviser
Isabel A. Olson, Chemistry
Heterogeneous Reactions: Measuring the Rates of Reaction of Indium-Mediated Allylations
Walter Bowyer, Adviser
Moira P. O’Neill, History
Poison, Sorcery, and Power in the Court of the Sun King
Matthew Kadane, Adviser
Katherine Parker-Magyar, English
Dying is an Art, Like Everything Else: The Role of Suicide in American Poetry
Karl Parker, Adviser
Megan A. Peterson, History
Gendered Paths to Power?: Women, Privilege, and Politics in Two African Contexts
Abou B. Bamba, Adviser
Tyson R. Reuter, Psychology
Friendship Quality and Adjustment in College Students
Julie Kingery, Adviser
Danielle M. Ryan, Writing and Rhetoric
Reading to Learn, Learning to Read: An Interdisciplinary Model for Education in Response to the No Child Left Behind Act
Cheryl Forbes, Adviser
Paula M. Schneider, Studio Art
Strings of Power: Marionettes and the Mutilation of the Female Body
Nicholas Ruth, Adviser
Jennie A. Seidewand, Individual Major (Art and Social Change)
Keep Your Coins, I Want Change:” An Art Activist Explores Public Peace Protest Art
Betty Bayer, Adviser
Emily K. Sheehan, English
INKLINGS
Karl Parker, Adviser
Christopher J. Slaby, Art History
Rewriting Yuan Politics: The Blue-Green Landscapes of Qian Xuan
Lara C.W. Blanchard, Adviser
Kristin L. Stascavage, Writing and Rhetoric
A Case Study: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Analysis of Power
Cheryl Forbes, Adviser
Peter M. Van Dellon, Political Science
The Greatest Success of the Bush Administration
Paul Passavant, Adviser
Simone E. VerEecke, Studio Art
The Art of Composing Chaos: An Experiment in Automatism
Michael Bogin, Adviser
Anna Wager, Art History
Within and Beyond Convent Walls: Nuns, Widows, and Art Patronage in Renaissance Italy
Elena Ciletti, Adviser
Andrew K. Wickenden, English (Creative Writing)
American Friction
David Weiss, Adviser
Sarah J.P. Yoon-Miller, Chemistry
Developing Novel Syntheses of 4-Aryl- and 3,4 -Diaryl-3-Pyrrolin-2-ones Utilizing Suzuki- Miyaura Cross-Coupling Reactions
Erin T. Pelkey, Adviser
Hannah L. Zale, Philosophy
Controlling the “Natural Lottery”: A Defense of Germline Genetic Engineering for Human Enhancement
Scott Brophy, Adviser
Lauren Zeitler, Latin American Studies
A Renewed Alliance? United States Immigration Policy and Remittance-Based Development in Latin America
Scott McKinney, Adviser
