During the 2010-2011 academic year, 27 Hobart and William Smith students successfully completed Honors projects. They were recognized, along with their advisers, at a Porch Party given by Provost and Dean of Faculty Teresa Amott on Friday, May 6. Their accomplishments will also be 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, each Honors candidate 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:
Emily Anatole, Writing and Rhetoric
Media by the Minute: An Entertainment News Site About Trends, Technology and Society
Cheryl Forbes, Adviser
Joel S. Andruski, Economics
Applying Risk Assessment to an Electricity Cost Model
Thomas Drennen, Adviser
Alexandra G. Aquadro, Architectural Studies
Drawing as a Way of Seeing: A Study of South Main Street, Geneva, New York
Stanley Mathews, Adviser
Cameron M. Avelis, Individual Major (Biophysics)
Advanced Methods for Protein Simulation
Alan van Giessen, Adviser
Caitlin M. Baker, Anthropology
Creativity and the Culture of Developmental Disabilities
Brenda Maiale, Adviser
Martha A. Beltz, Public Policy
Educational Equity and No Child Left Behind: The Impact of Policy on Education Reform
Cerri Banks, Adviser
Meghan J. Bowden, Political Science
The Truth of the Matter: The Practice of Truth-Telling As A Site For Constituting Liberal Democratic Subjects and Community
Paul Passavant, Adviser
Sarah Canavan, Writing and Rhetoric
A Friend, Indeed: A Teenager’s Guide to Facing Serious Illness in Friends and Peers
Cheryl Forbes, Adviser
Eleanor M. Chandler, Political Science
Complexity: An Emerging Discourse that Bridges the Natural and Social Sciences
Jodi Dean, Adviser
Sharlene Diamond, Africana Studies
Dancehall Kings and Queens: ‘Profiling’ Gender in Jamaican Dancehall Culture
Marilyn Jimënez, Adviser
Michael J. Doane, Psychology
Religion and Health: A Study Among Students in the Republic of Ireland
Portia Dyrenforth, Adviser
Eleanor C. Eckerson, Women’s Studies
Feminism at the Founding: An Exploration of ‘Feminism’ and the Emergence of Women’s Shelters in the 1970s
Betty Bayer, Adviser
Hillary L. Framson, Biology
Is Attachment Required for Necrosis and HR Induction in Agrobacterium vitis?
Sigrid Carle, Adviser
Jessica G. Greger, Chemistry
The Preparation of 3,4-Diaryl-3-pyrrolin-2-ones and Precursors of Staurosporinone Through Pyrrole Weinreb Amide Intermediates
Erin Pelkey, Adviser
Kara E. Grogan, History
The Politics of Memory in Berlin After 1945
Clifton Hood, Adviser
Neala R. Havener, Writing and Rhetoric
Food Poor, Poor Food: Three Voices of the National School Lunch Program
Cheryl Forbes, Adviser
Christina S. Jenkins, Writing and Rhetoric
The Dark Fate: Book One of The Dark Awakening Trilogy
Cheryl Forbes, Adviser
Reynaldo Kelly, Computer Science
Aerial Sensor Platform: Design, Control, and Implementation
John Vaughn, Adviser
Zachary C. Kimes, Political Science
Politics and Memory: Revolutionary Organization from Lenin to Hardt and Negri
Jodi Dean, Adviser
Whitman Littlefield, English
“With Whom We Stand: A Search for Place”
Anna Creadick, Adviser
Emma J. Luton, Women’s Studies
“Something for the Girls” – Girl Scouts’ Subversive Role in Female-Centered Activist Communities
Betty Bayer, Adviser
Amy Nimon, Writing and Rhetoric
Tiny Adventures and the Roads Less Traveled
Cheryl Forbes, Adviser
Lisa E. Philippone, Anthropology
Culture Drought: Water Scarcity in Rural Rajasthan
Brenda Maiale, Adviser
Shelby Pierce, International Relations (junior-graduating next year)
Language From the Barrel of a A Gun: Understanding the Lord’s Resistance Army Beyond the Western Press
Kevin Dunn, Adviser
Megan Rechin, Individual Major (Science Journalism)
The Chemistry of Culture in Buffalo, New York: An Investigation of the Chemical Reactins Behind the Food People Eat and the Culture They Create
Cheryl Forbes, Adviser
Anna Rusch, Art History
The Art of Theresienstadt: Reality Versus Illusion
Patricia Mathews, Adviser
Robert Taylor, Biology
The Irruptive Migratory Strategy of the Black-capped Chickadee: An Integrative Study of Energetics and Spatial Orientation in Poecile atricapillus
Mark Deutschlander, Adviser
Deirdre Wholly, Chemistry
Solid-phase Synthesis of Depsipeptidic HDAC Inhibitors Through Chemoselective Macrocyclization
Justin Miller, Adviser
Tweet |