During the 2012-2013 academic year, several Hobart and William Smith students successfully completed Honors projects. The students and their advisers were recognized by the HWS Board of Trustees last weekend and will be again honored at a reception hosted by Provost and Dean of Faculty Titi Ufomata on May 10. 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.
Seniors receiving Honors this year are:
William H. Abbott, Political Science
Good Kid, Mad City: Public Education Under Neoliberalism
Professor of Political Science Jodi Dean, Adviser
Sara C. Ahrendtsen, Architectural Studies
The Visual Representation of a Built Environment
Assistant Professor of Architectural Studies Kirin Makker, Adviser
Jonathan E. Barthel, Philosophy
The Institution of Punishment: Unjustifiable in a Liberal State
Professor of Philsophy Steven Lee, Adviser
Brandon E. Campbell, Russian Area Studies
Vygotsky in Context
Assistant Professor of Psychology Brien Ashdown, Adviser
Nicholas C. D’Alberto, Psychology
The Effect of Reward on Inhibitory Control: An Electrophysical Study
Professor of Psychology Jeffrey Greenspon, Adviser
Catherine R. Downey, Chemistry
Synthesis and Oxidative Cyclization of 3,4-Diaryl 3-pyrrolin-2-ones
Associate Professor of Chemistry Erin Pelkey, Adviser
Hilary S. Dreyer, Anthropology
CHICHA: Drink of the Gods and Means of Social Cohesion in Bolivian Society
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Brenda Maiale, Adviser
Kimberly R. Goral, Media and Society
Covering Climate Change: Methods and Deficits of Environmental Broadcast Journalism
Assistant Professor of Media and Society Leah Shafer, Adviser
Lindsey R. Haun, Health Professions
Fiction + History = Healthcare Reformation: Tracking Social Perceptions of Mental Illness and Its Influence on the Quality of Psychiatric Nursing Care from 1750-1918
Professor of Writing and Rhetoric Cheryl Forbes, Adviser
Jordunn F. Joubert, Psychology
Lexical Ambiguities: Using Context and Dominance of Meaning to Reduce the Subordinate Bias Effect
Associate Professor of Psychology Michelle Rizzella, Adviser
Alexander B. Kittleberger, Computer Science
Online Virtual Math Museum: Building a Virtual Math Museum with Modern Web Technologies and an XML Infrastructure
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science David Eck, Adviser
Molly F. Krifka, Ethnomusicology
The Turista Performing: Gender, Alterity, and Musicianship in the Peruvian Highlands
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Brenda Maiale, Adviser
Callan P.Mathis, Media and Society
Who Do You Think I Am?
Professor of Media and Society Linda Robertson, Adviser
Jillian McCarthy, Philosophy [featured in the photo above]
Dropping Mind and Body: A Comparative Analysis of Nonduality
Dean of Hobart College and Professor of Philosophy Eugen Baer HON’07, P’95, P’97, Adviser
Alessandra E. Mele, Studio Art
Juxtaposing Significance: Aesthetic Experience Through Found Materials
Associate Professor of Art and Architecture Nicholas Ruth, Adviser
Stephen G. Mugel, Biology
The Social Influence of Male Courtship: Competition, Female Quality, and Indications of Female Selectivity
Professor of Biology David Droney, Adviser
Emily C. Perkins, Philosophy
The Power and Purpose of Metaphor: Making the Abstract Concrete and Visual
Dean of Hobart College and Professor of Philosophy Eugen Baer HON’07, P’95, P’97, Adviser
Joseph A. Quigley, Media and Society
Information Flows: Unhibited Connectivity and the Global Media
Professor of Political Science Jodi Dean, Adviser
Lauren V. Rossman, International Relations
The Role of the State in Economic Development: An Analysis of Brazil’s Desarrollista State
Professor of Economics Scott McKinney, Adviser
Samuel H. Schneider, Chemistry
Macromolecular Crowding: Effects and Mechanism on the Kinetics of S. cerevisiae Alcohol Dehydrogenase
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Kristin Slade, Adviser
Sarah A. Tanzer, Political Science
Swing or Miss: An Analysis of the Evolution of Campaigning, 1980-2008
Associate Professor of Political Science DeWayne Lucas, Adviser
Deepak Vallabhaneni, Biochemistry
Evaluating the Biological Activity of Depsipeptide HDAC Inhibitors on p53-deficient U937 Cells
Professor of Biology Sigrid Carle, Adviser
Megan R. VanDorp, Latin American Studies
Wild Ox to Foster Mother: Retracing Bos taurus’ Path Into the Cultures of Spain, Argentina, and the United States
Associate Professor of Religious Studies Richard Salter ’86, P’15, Adviser
Augusta A. Williams, Geoscience
Weather and Weather Radar Observations During E ared Grebe Migration in the Vicinity of the Great Salt Lake
Associate Professor of Geoscience Neil Laird, Adviser
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