Julia Franchi Scarselli ’18 and Dianne Jester Wieland ’16
Mill River Industries in Florence MA; poster session deriving from concentration project with Kelly Anderson, oral historian of special collections
Asriyanti Karma ’16
La Mezquita-Catedral: A Walk-Through in Space and Time; poster session deriving from special studies with James Middlebrook, assistant professor of art
Alyssa Rooney ’16
An Athletic Director’s Path to the Top: An Analysis of NEWMAC Athletic Directors; poster session deriving from special studies with Jim Johnson, professor of exercise and sports studies
Devi Dearmon-Moore ’16
Nutrition and Sport Recovery in Smith Swimmers; science poster session deriving from special studies with Barbara Brehm-Curtis, professor of exercise and sports studies
Kendra Bonde ’19, Carolyn Lee Lancaster ’19, Claire Tepesch ’19 and Maia Tooley ’19
Global Stride and the World; poster session deriving from STRIDE research with Nancy Sternbach, professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Dorean Collins ’16 and Lally Delgado ’16
Reflections on Heritage Language Community Engagement; science poster session deriving from special studies with Simone Gugliotta, lecturer of Spanish and Portuguese
Preetilata Hashemi ’16
Third World Feminism; poster session deriving from special studies and concentration capstone with Andy Rotman, professor of religion
Shira Breen ’18
Evaluating Kelly Strong’s Pleasure Principles: Changes in Health Behaviors Before and After Her Course; poster deriving from STRIDE research with Hannah Karpman, assistant professor for the School for Social Work
Claire Clapp Adams ’16 and Geneva Strauss-Wise ’16
The Flash Pod: Designing and Building a Mobile Pop-Up Space for Smithies; poster session deriving from special studies with Borjana Mikic, R. B. Hewlett ’40 Professor’ of Engineering and Zaza Kabayadondo, design thinking initiative co-director of interdisciplinary studies
Sushmitha Ram ’18 and Courtney Lowe ’18
Where Are They Now? Representation of Marginalized Groups in STEM Trade Publications; poster session deriving from STRIDE and AEMES research with Lauren Duncan, professor of psychology and Kate Queeney, professor of chemistry
Kavita Bhandari ’16
Stigmatization and Psychopathology in Ethnic Minorities in the USA: The Mediating Role of Perfectionism; poster session deriving from SURF research with Alexandra Burgess, postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in psychology
Maria Lidia Ortiz ’17
Everyday Discrimination, Family Context, Mood Disorders Among Latina/os: Does Gender Matter?; poster session deriving from summer research with Patricia DiBartolo, Caroline L. Wall ’27 Professor of Psychology
Jessamine Griewahn-Okita ’17
A Comparison of Romani Acquisition in Macedonian, Serbian, and Swedish Populations; poster session deriving from research with Jill de Villiers, Sophia & Austin Smith Professor of Psychology and professor of philosophy
Cynthia Gomez ’16, Cara Tomaso ’16, Kyla Wingrove-Haugland ’16, Martha Azu ’16, Karlena Henry AC, Gennifer Hegarty AC and Emily Jackson ’18
An Eyetracker Study: Are Language Faculties Involved in Identifying Relational Categories?; poster session deriving from seminar work with Jill de Villiers, Sophia & Austin Smith Professor of Psychology and professor of philosophy
Gail Clarke ’18 and Halimat Ipesa-Balogun ’17
Recognition of Homes: A Study of Concept Formation with Prototype Variation and Relational Spatial Reasoning; poster session deriving from STRIDE research with Jill de Villiers, Sophia & Austin Smith Professor of Psychology and professor of philosophy
Dominique Denbow ’16
Oxytocin and Vasopressin: Relationship to Autism; science poster session deriving from special studies with Peter de Villiers, Sophia & Austin Smith Professor of Psychology
Victoria Torres ’17, Lissandra Camacho ’19 and Chelsea Pimentel ’17
Quality Rather than Quantity Matters: The Importance of the Richness of Caregivers’ Conversation with their Preschool Children; science poster session deriving from AEMES research with Peter de Villiers, Sophia & Austin Smith Professor of Psychology
Gabriella Zutrau ’16 and Evelyn Parker ’18
Determinants and Outcomes of African American Vernacular English Bidialectalism; poster session deriving from STRIDE research and special studies with Peter de Villiers, Sophia & Austin Smith Professor of Psychology
Alexis Smith ’16 and Alanna Lynch ’17
Language Delay, Poverty, and Their Effects on Literacy; science poster session deriving from special studies with Peter de Villiers, Sophia & Austin Smith Professor of Psychology
Xiaozhou Wang ’16 and Madeline Klein ’16J
Adults’ and Children’s Interpretation of Antonym Pairs and Their Negation;poster session deriving from thesis work with Jill de Villiers, Sophia & Austin Smith Professor of Psychology and professor of philosophy and Peter de Villiers, Sophia & Austin Smith Professor of Psychology
Jessica Kotfila ’18 and Madeline Klein ’16J
How Do Children Answer When, Why, and Where?; science poster session deriving from J-term research with Jill de Villiers, Sophia & Austin Smith Professor of Psychology and professor of philosophy
Mariya Germash ’18
A Case Study of a Child’s Acquisition of English Complements; poster session deriving from STRIDE research with Jill de Villiers, Sophia & Austin Smith Professor of Psychology and professor of philosophy
Paloma Wiggins ’17, Sara Tallent ’17 and Tia Karapoulios ’16
Drinking Game Behaviors Among Young Adults: Does Gender Matter?; poster session deriving from classwork with Byron Zamboanga, professor of psychology
Abigail Bergman ’18
Police Training Videos applied to the Shooter Bias Phenomenon; poster session deriving from STRIDE research with Fletcher Blanchard, professor of psychology
Kelcie Grenier ’16
Young Adult Women’s Perceived Reasons for Being Targeted to Drink When Playing Drinking Games; poster session deriving from classwork with Byron Zamboanga, professor of psychology
Kelcie Grenier ’16 and Alexandra Singer ’16
“and I kikked her back”: Pre-Adolescent’s Responses and Resolutions in the Face of Perceived Injustice; poster session deriving from independent research with Shannon Audley-Piotrowski, assistant professor of education and child study
Alexandra Singer ’16 and Karina Huang ’18
Teachers are Disrespectful Too: Urban Youth’s Experiences of Teacher Disrespect; poster session deriving from thesis work with Shannon Audley-Piotrowski, assistant professor of education and child study
Emily Carroll ’16 and Geneva Strauss-Wise ’16
Interdisciplinary Conversations : Nationalism | Violence | Discard/Waste | Memory | Geography; poster deriving from special studies with Paul Wetzel, environmental research coordinator and environmental monitoring coordinator at the Center for the Environment, and Ann Leone, professor of French studies
Elizabeth Freeman ’19 and Emmely Rogers ’19
Interactive Models of Spiral and Cylinder Lattices; science poster session deriving from STRIDE and AEMES research with Christopher Golé, professor of mathematics and statistics and Denise Lello, coordinator of the Four College Biomathematics Consortium
Quinn Anex-Ries ’17
The Development of a Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Polymeric Micelles; poster session deriving from concentration project with Ileana Streinu, Charles N. Clark Professor of Computer Science
Karen Chau ’16
Modeling Dynein Motor Ensembles Motility with Cargo; science poster session deriving from thesis work with Nathan Derr, assistant professor of biological sciences and Ileana Streinu, Charles N. Clark Professor of Computer Science
Victoria Wolf ’16
In Silico Protein Surgery; poster session deriving from thesis work with Ileana Streinu, Charles N. Clark Professor of Computer Science
Serena Hansraj ’19 and Rebecca Rohrlich ’19
Developing Computational Tools for Processing Crystal Data from the Crystallography Open Database (COD); poster session deriving from AEMES research with Ileana Streinu, Charles N. Clark Professor of Computer Science
Marina Cheng ’17
Object-Oriented Domain Decomposition for Proteomics Studies; poster session deriving from special studies with Ileana Streinu, Charles N. Clark Professor of Computer Science
Minnal Abbasi ’16
Rigidity Analysis on Viral Structures; poster session deriving from thesis work with Ileana Streinu, Charles N. Clark Professor of Computer Science
Vladislava Paskova ’17
Rigidity of DNA; poster session deriving from concentration project with Ileana Streinu, Charles N. Clark Professor of Computer Science
Tam Nguyen ’16 and Elysia Wang ’18
Computer Recognition and Dating of Ancient Scripts; science poster session deriving from Five College Digital Humanities grant with Nicholas Howe, professor of computer science
Mariem Ayadi ’16 and Alice Yang ’17
“Sentimentaly” (Web application): A Facebook Page Sentiment Analyzer; poster session deriving from classwork with Jordan Crouser, Visiting Assistant Professor MassMutual Fellow in Statistical and Data Sciences
Martha Miller AC
Interactive Data Visualization in Tableau: Exploring Degree Trends of Women in STEM; poster session deriving from classwork with Jordan Crouser, Visiting Assistant Professor MassMutual Fellow in Statistical and Data Sciences
Hee Jin ’16
Multiple Object Tracking Using Convolutional Neural Network in Wireless Sensor Networks; poster session deriving from thesis work with Judith Cardell, professor of engineering
Ning Zhu ’17
Precision of Electric Load Forecasting in Demand Response Programs; poster session deriving from special studies with Judith Cardell, professor of engineering
Victoria Schein ’16
Four-Wheel-Steering (4WS) Mechatronic Control System Design Using Linear Quadratic Control Theory to Enhance Automotive Vehicle Lane-Keeping Performance; poster session deriving from thesis work with Judith Cardell, professor of engineering
Yijin Wei ’16
Electric Power System Design for Miniature PEM Fuel Cells; science poster session deriving from thesis work with Denise McKahn, associate professor of engineering
Zoe Zandbergen ’18
Ramshackle!: A Collaborative Building Game; poster session deriving from special studies with Borjana Mikic, R. B. Hewlett ’40 Professor’ of Engineering
Yezhezi Zhang ’16, Lu Xia ’17, Annie Murillo ’16 and Audrey Ong ’16
Wideband Acoustic Immittance Measures; poster session deriving from thesis work with Susan Voss, professor of engineering
Melody Cao ’16, Sara Loric ’16, Annie Murillo ’16, Audrey Ong ’16, Chelsea Orefice ’16 and Emma Rocco ’16
Design of a Hand-Held Data Acquisition Device For Flowmeter Voltage Data; poster session deriving from classwork sponsored by Schneider Electric with Susannah Howe, director of the design clinic and senior lecturer in engineering
Jessica Innis ’17
Mundo: An Immersive Language Learning Application; poster session deriving from classwork with Susannah Howe, director of design clinic and senior lecturer in engineering, Mahnaz Mahdavi, professor of economics and faculty director of women and financial independence and Hélène Visentin, professor of French studies
Bianca Arevalo ’16 and Ava Sharma ’17J
iNetFlow: A Solution Finder; poster session deriving from classwork with Susannah Howe, director of design clinic and senior lecturer in engineering, Mahnaz Mahdavi, professor of economics and faculty director of women and financial independence and Jordan Crouser, Visiting Assistant Professor MassMutual Fellow of Statistical and Data Sciences
Carolyn Brown ’16
Best Face Forward: A Professional Headshot Business; poster session deriving from classwork with Susannah Howe, director of design clinic and senior lecturer in engineering and Mahnaz Mahdavi, professor of economics and faculty director of women and financial independence
Aimee Rong ’19 and Tasbiha Chowdhury ’19
Tutor Town: An Online Community Promoting Academic Excellence; poster session deriving from classwork with Susannah Howe, director of design clinic and senior lecturer in engineering, Mahnaz Mahdavi, professor of economics and faculty director of women and financial independence and Alan Rudnitsky, professor of education and child study
Angela Upreti ’16
A Decentralized Approach to Privacy in the Smart Grid; poster session deriving from thesis work with Judith Cardell, professor of engineering
Lujun Jian ’17, Ayesha Khan ’16, Emily Ohrtman ’16, Youyou Tian ’17 and Angela Upreti ’16
Design of a System to Facilitate Screening For Pediatric Patients; poster session deriving from classwork sponsored by Baystate Health, with support from the Design Thinking Initiative with Susannah Howe, director of the design clinic and senior lecturer in engineering, Suzanne Gottschang, associate professor of anthropology, and Dominique Thiebaut, professor of computer science
Darpan Bohara ’18 and Yashna Sureka ’17J
Paysa: A Fingerprint Authorization System for Payment; poster session deriving from classwork with Susannah Howe, director of design clinic and senior lecturer in engineering, Mahnaz Mahdavi, professor of economics and faculty director of women and financial independence, Sarah Moore, assistant professor of engineering and Nicholas Howe, professor of computer science
Brea Dutt ’16
Symbiosis: a Platform Connecting Nonprofits, Donors, and Volunteers; poster session deriving from classwork with Susannah Howe, director of design clinic and senior lecturer in engineering and Mahnaz Mahdavi, professor of economics and faculty director of women and financial independence
Leslie Hillsamer ’16 and Josephine Surer ’19
Green Guru: An Eco-Friendly Lifestyle; poster session deriving from classwork with Susannah Howe, director of design clinic and senior lecturer in engineering, Mahnaz Mahdavi, professor of economics and L.David Smith, professor of biological sciences
Malia Charter ’16, Cecely Ogren ’16 and Emi Rabe ’16
Design of a Novel FIFA-Approved Soccer Ball; poster session deriving from classwork sponsored by UnderArmour and PSI 91 with Susannah Howe, director of design clinic and senior lecturer in engineering
Brittany Bennett ’16, Christine Hart ’16, Leen Hayek ’16 and Katie Pritchard ’16
Elm Street Dam Removal Design, Kingston MA; poster session deriving from classwork sponsored by Stantec with Susannah Howe, director of the design clinic and senior lecturer in engineering
Joanna Kenneally ’16, Eliana Perlmutter ’16, Sophia Poulos ’16 and Jin Rui Yap ’16
Design of Mass Central Rail Trail Extension into Haydenville, MA; poster session deriving from classwork sponsored by Mill River Greenway Initiative, HyGround Engineering, the Northampton Office of Planning and Sustainability, and the Northampton Department of Public Works with Susannah Howe, director of the design clinic and senior lecturer in engineering
Marina Biggio ’17J, Bethany Claps ’16 and Dakota Murray ’16
Design of a Veress Needle Indicator For Minimally Invasive Surgery; poster session deriving from classwork sponsored by Medtronic with Susannah Howe, director of the design clinic and senior lecturer in engineering
Claire Dudek ’16, Julieanna Niu ’16 and Bailey Vaillancourt ’16
Design of a Movable Inlet Guide Vane System for Centrifugal Compressors; poster session deriving from classwork sponsored by Dresser-Rand, A Siemens Business with Susannah Howe, director of the design clinic and senior lecturer in engineering
Laura Rosenbauer ’18 and Sophia Poulos ’16
An Inside Look at Engineering Capstone Design Programs Across the Country, poster session deriving from STRIDE research and CFCD-funded student research with Susannah Howe, director of the design clinic and senior lecturer in engineering
Jordan Menter ’16
Models of Random Graphs; poster session deriving from special studies with Benjamin Baumer, assistant professor of statistical and data sciences
Meredith Wilde ’16
Bases of Splines: Not So Basic; poster session deriving from classwork with Julianna Tymoczko, associate professor of mathematics and statistics
Alexandra Dupey ’18
Data Wrangling to Examine Federal Support for Faculty Research and Programming at Smith and Peers; poster session deriving from STRIDE research with Kathryn Aloisio, Institutional Research Analyst and Minh Ly, Associate Director for Assessment
Chris Murray ’16 and Michaela Chinn ’16
Women Who Create: Writers, Artists, and Photographers of Voices and Visions; poster session deriving from creation of Voices and Visions, an online women’s journal with Rosetta Cohen, Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor of Education and Child Study