1-2:15 p.m.
Klingenstein Browsing Room, Neilson Library – Journalism in the Field: Journalism Concentration Capstone Presentations
Presentations deriving from concentration projects with Dusty Christensen, Journalism Concentration, and Naila Moreira, Jacobson Center for Writing and Journalism Concentration
Naomi Scully-Bristol ‘25
Medical Aid in Dying: Facing Massachusetts’ Enduring Legislative Issue
Abril Olivares Nolasco ‘26J
The Nuances of Abandoning your Mother Language from the Spanish Speaker Perspective
Kaeli Bennett ‘25
Environmental Inequities in Holyoke: How the Lower Wards Were Designed to Reinforce White Supremacy and Socioeconomic Power Structures
Brooke Chandler ‘25
‘Honor the Contract’: Veterans Rally Against VA Cuts, Demand Accountability and Care
Laura Fay ‘25
‘These People are on a Mission to Destroy Things’: Northampton Navigates Trans Rights in the Second Age of Trump
Olivia Petty ‘26
All Time High: Western Mass Food Banks Face Unprecedented Long Lines
Rebecca Connor ‘25
Anticipatory Defiance: Equitable Research at the Five Colleges in an Era of Funding Freezes
Ursula Siegfried ’25
The Environmental Injustice of Northampton’s Housing Insecurity
Eli Chuharski ’25
Speaking from the Margins: Profiling Interlink Books, the Moushabeck Family, and How to Practice Political Resistance Through Independent Publishing
Phoebe Boyce ’26J
Safety or Surveillance?: Immigration and Policing in Massachusetts
1-2:30 p.m.
Kahn Liberal Arts Institute – Vegetal Forms: Knowing Place and Time through Plants
Presentations deriving from Kahn Project Fellowships with Colin Hoag, Department of Anthropology, and Jimmy Grogan, Botanic Garden of Smith College
Julia Beyer ’26
Living Histories: Plant “Discovery,” Colonial Empire, and Botanical Knowledge Production in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Eva Bruce ’25
“Cast Offs From the Public Garden”: Political Re-imaginings of Ruderal Plant Life in East Boston
Chlo Gold ’25
Lichen in the Landscape: Making Queer Entanglements in Small Encounters
Avery Maltz, AC’25
Field Works: Exploring Plant Form through Botanical Ink Making; presentation deriving from a Kahn Project Fellowship, and also research with Jessica Gersony, Department of Biological Sciences
1:15-2:30 p.m.
Seelye Hall 101 – Data Analysis and Computing Code
Sanjana Yasna ’27
Fine Tuning Convergence Experiments with Large Language Models Trained on High Performance Computing Code; presentation deriving from research with Michael Robson, Department of Computer Science
Juniper Huang ’25, Casey MacGibbon ’25
Visualizing Phantom Reductions through Devious Data Analysis; presentation deriving from special studies and research with Lindsay Poirier, Statistical & Data Sciences Program
Lucy Breitenbach ’28, Breeze Hong ’28, Ga-In Lee ’27, Evelyn Zuo ’27, Mariia Horodyska ’27, Arya Zhou ’27, Gryffyn May ’27, Rainbow Gu ’26
Analyzing China-Related Op-Eds by Members of Congress to Assess Shifts in Attitudes About China; presentation deriving from special studies, STRIDE, and research with Sara Newland, Department of Government
Seelye Hall 107 – Interdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Issues
Taylor Zweil ’25
Other Encounters: Dance for Embodied Environmental Reunion; presentation deriving from honors thesis with Chris Aiken, Department of Dance
Astrid Johnson ’26, Claire Edmonds ’25, Sian Bareket ’25
Learning From Trees: A Collaboration with Green Legacy Hiroshima; presentation deriving from classwork with Atsuko Takahashi, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Evelyn Berry ’25
How is Indigenous Knowledge Viewed as a Solution to the Climate Crisis in Latin America?; presentation deriving from special studies with Maria Rueda, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Kira Kaplan ’25
Increasing Domain Adaptability for Underwater Object Detection Machine Learning Models; presentation deriving from honors thesis with Jordan Crouser, Department of Computer Science, and Halie Rando, Department of Computer Science
Seelye Hall 109- Memory and Environment
Adline Dely ’26, Maya Delmont ‘25, Tiff Hooker ‘25
Landscape and Memory: Audio Projects in French Studies; presentation deriving from classwork with Dawn Fulton, Department of French Studies, Joanne Benkley, Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability, and Meridith Richter, Learning Research and Technology
Seelye Hall 206 – Education at the Intersection of Identity
Aina Endo ’25, Alina Yildirim ’26, Bella Bandura ’27
Overcoming STEM Anxiety and Imposter Syndrome: Challenges Faced by Students at Smith; presentation deriving from a NASA MaRS project with Shannon Audley, Department of Education and Child Study
Alex Beardsley ‘25
Exploring Intersectionality in Classroom Participation; presentation deriving from classwork with Shannon Audley, Department of Education and Child Study
Tierney Simonson ’25, Vera Robinson ’25, Maggie Huang ’27
What Do Young Adults and Teenagers Learn When They Teach?; presentation deriving from research with Sam Intrator, Department of Education and Child Study, and Graeham Dodd, Director of the Education Initiative, Jandon Center for Community Engagement
Cydney Socias ’25
Institutional Constructions of Diversity in College Admissions Marketing: A Critical Race Theory Analysis of Smith College Diversity Pamphlets; presentation deriving from honors thesis with Shannon Audley, Department of Education and Child Study
Seelye Hall 211 – Culture, Identity, and Knowledge Across Disciplines
Handi Lu’25
Sound of Desire: Exploring Claude Debussy’s Musical Eroticism; presentation deriving from classwork with Jiayan Sun, Department of Music
Avery Sullivan ’27, Alice Tan ’25
Pedagogical Partnership: A Way of Learning/Teaching through Partnership; presentation deriving from pedagogical partnership with Yalin Chen, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Rebecca Worsham, Classical Languages and Literatures
Yewon Park ’25
Cultural Understanding and Reunification through Travel in Crash Landing on You; presentation deriving from classwork with Kimberly Kono, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Regina Hu ’26J
Boundaries of Memory and Identity; presentation deriving from special studies with Susan Levin, Department of Philosophy
Seelye Hall 311 – Gender and Sexuality Across Cultures
Bua Pungsomwong ’26
Asian American Queer Rage in “Letter to Ma” and “Everything Everywhere All At Once”; presentation deriving from classwork with Nozomi Nakaganeku Saito, Department of English and Literature, Amherst College
Hillary Dunkley ’25
Taboo and Gender: An Analysis of The Decameron and The Heptameron; presentation deriving from classwork with Michele Monserrati, Department of Italian and German Studies, and Theresa Brock, Department of French Studies
Quinn Mathews ’25
Yiddish Drag: How We Dress Up Our Futures in Our Pasts; presentation deriving from classwork with Justin Cammy, Program in Jewish Studies, Sari Fein, Program in Jewish Studies, and Ernest Benz, Department of History
Naomi Carpenter ’25
Under the Blue Triangle: The YWCA, Protestant Womanhood, and Body Politics in the Middle East; presentation deriving from classwork and honors thesis with Susanna Ferguson, Program in Middle East Studies
Seelye Hall 312 – History and the Shaping of Cultural Narratives
Madison Julio ’26
Ibn Taymiyya’s Intellectual Tradition in Modernity: Medieval Jihad Discourse on X; presentation deriving from research with Joshua Birk, Department of History
Fern Poling ’25
Comedic Depictions of Clergy in Fabliaux; presentation deriving from special studies with Joshua Birk, Department of History
Tenaya Fottrell ’25
Stupor Mundi: Wonder of the World in Curriculum; presentation deriving from special studies and research with Joshua Birk, Department of History
2-5 p.m.
Special Collections Classroom, Neilson Library – Museums Concentration Capstone Presentations
Presentations deriving from concentration projects with Jessica Nicoll, Museums Concentration, and Charlene Shang Miller, Smith College Museum of Art
Olivia Sarno ’25
Communication, Connection, Commitment: Multilingualism in U.S. Museums
Elena Korinek ’25
Museum Public Programming and Building Community
Simone Tricca ’25
S.T.E.M. in the History Museum
Cece Coleman ’25
Coming into Compliance: How to Navigate NAGPRA
Ella McDaniel ’25
The Trauma-informed New England History Museum
Charlotte Kaczmarek ’25
Decolonial Practices in Museums Today
Sophie Hui-Ya Kiang ’25
On Contemporary Art: Find Your Niche
Lilly Watson ’25
Interpreting Controversial Art
Eva Weigand-Whittier ’25
Audio Guides and the Voice of the Artist
Annabel Morley ’25
Interactive Creative Exhibitions
Elizabeth Kidder ’25
Materiality of Art: Bronze Disease
Chlo Droumenq ’25
Contextualizing Smith’s Rock and Mineral Collection
Audrey Ebeling Bloom ’25
Using Artwork in Classroom Writing Lessons
Audrey Willius ’25
Changing Museum Education in Response to the Pandemic
2:15-4:30 p.m.
Carroll Room, Campus Center 208 – Design Clinic Celebration
Presentations deriving from classwork with Mike Kinsinger, Picker Engineering Program, and Aaron Rubin, Picker Engineering Program
Ariana Panduro Zamorana ’25, Elsa Bieger ’25, Gaby Ayala Becerra ’25, Rebecca Farrar ’25
Design of an Airflow System to Facilitate Benchtop Testing of Hydrogel Degradation
Emma Vicinanza ’25, Katarzyna Wisnauckas ’25, Megan Li ’25, Nathalie Pak ’25
Adaptive Multisensory Storytelling: Designing Future Vehicle Experience
Grant Roll ’25, Kira Seshaiah ’25, Lilliana Frantz ’25
Design of an Upstream Leak Test Method for Semiconductor Manufacturing
Almanzo Gao ’25, Arden Yang ’25, Chon-sa Cardona ’25, Karina Bodor ’25
Design of a Thermal Energy Storage System for Tufts University
Dulce Ramirez ’25, Muneera Alshagawi ’25, Talyor Ang ’25
Design and Evaluation of a Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) System Enclosure for Fish Passage Research
Gwen Tuckett ’24, Niv Mantha ’24, Zoey Zibler ’24
Design of a Mechanism to Open Reagent Bags within the GEM Family of Analyzers
2:30-3 p.m.
Klingenstein Browsing Room, Neilson Library – Books Studies Concentration Capstone Presentations
Presentations deriving from concentration projects with Cornelia Pearsall, Department of English Language and Literature
Violet Paulsen’25
Of all the Minor Creatures of Mythology, Fairies are the Most Beautiful, the Most Numerous, the Most Memorable: Victorian and Edwardian Fascination with Fairy-Story Aesthetics
Claire Sullivan ’25
Memory or Mirage: Creating the History of 19th Century Printing in Deerfield, Massachusetts
2:30-3 p.m.
Mwangi Cultural Center – Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program
Em Kim ’25, Alexa Sanchez-Valeriano ’25, Minha Virk ‘J26, Yena Perice J’26, Veda Hedgepeth ’26
Presentations from the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program with Michelle Joffroy, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and L’Tanya Richmond, Multicultural Affairs, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship
2:30-5 p.m.
Seelye Hall 201 – Translation Studies Concentration Capstone Presentations
Presentations deriving from concentration projects with Reyes Lázaro, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Kyara Soto Villarreal ’26
Los Tres García: Subtitling Mexican Comedy
Wantong Wu ’25
Hundred Schools of Thought: Translating Ancient Chinese Philosophy; presentation deriving from a concentration project also with Sujane Wu, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Kate Bartkus ’26
“I don’t Sing Just to Sing”: Translations of La Nueva Canción
Yewon Park ’25
“The Cat and The Dog”: the Unexpected Difficulties of Translating a Children’s Folktale
Margaret Kirkpatrick ’26
Tumultuous Fidelity: Translating the Book of Ruth
Catherine Low ’25
ABAO’s “Mother Tongue”: Songs by a Paiwan Artist; presentation deriving from a concentration project also with Sujane Wu, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Olivia Sarno ’25
Translating Argentine Indie Music in 5 Different ways; presentation deriving from a concentration project also with Adrian Gras-Velazquez, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Ciana Socias ’25
A Queer Cuban Story Through a Queer Cuban American Lens
Defne Tekin ’25
A Coffin with Labels!? Translating a Turkish Feminist Play about a Play; presentation deriving from a concentration project also with Şebnem Baran, Department of Film and Media Studies
Bella Cooperman ’25
Translating Symbolism: Estrangement and Strangeness in Can Xue’s The Bull; presentation deriving from a capstone project also with Sujane Wu, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Amy Wu ’25
Fill My Parting Winecup: To Translate a Modern Chinese Novel; presentation deriving from a concentration project also with Sujane Wu, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Xinran Chen ’25
Hybrid Chinese Identity in a “French” Novel
2:45-3:30 p.m.
Seelye Hall 211 – Insights in Social Science Research
Handi Lu ’25
Impact of Microfinance on Household Educational Investment and Attainment; presentation deriving from classwork and a concentration project with Vis Taraz, Department of Economics
Marielle Maple ’25
I Know What I Saw: Effects of Narrative Overlay on Event Completion and Event Extension; presentation deriving from honors thesis with Yael Granot, Department of Psychology
2:45-4 p.m.
Seelye Hall 101 – Smith Alliance for Justice & Equity (SAJE)
Presentations deriving from classwork with Nancy Zigler, Jandon Center for Community Engagement, Community Engagement and Social Change Concentration, and Ana Del Conde, Program of Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Community Engagement and Social Change Concentration
Chiderah Emeakoroha, ’27, Ella Burns-DeMelo, ’27
Financial Freedom: Empowering Domestic Violence Survivors
Alice MacGarvie Thompson, ’27, Jayola Reid, ’26J
Lessons on Organizing Under Repression
Stella Hopper-Gramenz, ’26
Investigating Madrid’s Relationship to Sound
Ava Blando, ’27, Jade Lili Palosky, ’26, Vic Chan, ’26J
Re-energizing the Refugee & Immigrant Support Initiative (RISI)
Phoebe Turner, ‘25J
Action Afternoon: Capitalism and Consumption in our Global Community
Seelye Hall 107- Health, Policy, and Society
Teagan Benavidez ’25
Cutting Corners with the Black Death: How a French Scientist Eschewed Ethical and Scientific Norms to Treat the Bubonic Plague; presentation deriving from STRIDE with Kathleen Pierce, Department of Art
Una Gogstetter ’27J
State Policy Stigma and LGBTQ Health Outcomes: An Analysis of Multi-Year Data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; presentation deriving from special studies and SURF with Scott LaCombe, Department of Government and Statistical & Data Sciences Program
Elena Roby ’27, Zoe Neil ’27, Regina Hu ’26J
COVID-19, News Media, and Compassion Fatigue; presentation deriving from STRIDE and SURF with Timothy Recuber, Department of Sociology
2:45-4:15 p.m.
Seelye Hall 106 – Art, Design, and Cultural Artifacts
Ignatz DeCourcey ’26, Simone Tricca ’25, Grace Netti ’26, Marissa Todd ’27
Object Biographies of the Van Buren Collection; presentation deriving from classwork with Rebecca Worsham, Department of Classical Languages and Literatures
Grace Netti ’26, Grace Coyne ’28, Carson Helmicki ’26J
100 Years of Van Buren: A Collection Revisited; presentation deriving from research with Rebecca Worsham, Department of Classical Languages and Literatures
Via Sussman ’26
Scissoring Lighting Design; presentation deriving from special studies with Lara Dubin, Department of Theatre
Lily Sickman-Garner ’25
Costume Design: Scissoring; presentation deriving from special studies with Kiki Smith, Department of Theatre
Seelye Hall 109 – Humanities and Social Sciences Lab
Hillary Connor ‘26, Josephine Walker ‘27, Gianna Sala ‘27, Avery Marr ‘27, Marie Willems ‘27, Sophie Nunziati ‘27, Kathy Luan ‘27
Race and Representation in Francophone Cultures; presentation deriving from research lab with Dawn Fulton, Department of French Studies, and Library Research Staff
3-5 p.m.
Klingenstein Browsing Room, Neilson Library – Taking the Archives Public: Archives Concentration Capstone Presentations
Presentations deriving from concentration projects with Kelly Anderson, Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Archives Concentration
Chloé Arciero ’26
“For theirs is the kingdom of heaven”: The Progressive Religion of Catholics for Choice
Dalia Cohen ’25
Smith College’s Response to World War II
Phoebe Kallaher ’25
Dressing Like Shirley: School, Social Status and the Material Culture of 1930s Childhood
Sydney Kilgore ’25
“The Lesbian Controversy”: Debates on Homosexuality at Smith College in the Late 1970s
Ella Langenthal ’25
Across the Mill River: The Intertwined Histories of Smith College and the Northampton State Hospital
Roan Lord ’25
Affectionate Women: Community and Kinship at Smith College in the Early Twentieth Century
Madeleine Manzer ’26
Zines, Riots Grrrls, and Self-Publishing
Sarah Mitrani ’25
Access the Past, Archive the Present: Exploring Accessibility and Disability Justice at Smith College
Stevie Ordway ’25
Aunt Tee’s Advice
Maddie Rehrman ’25
“We are provoked to tender dreams by a hint”: Discovering Alma Routsong’s Historical Imaginings
Alena Rooney ’25
Eugenics at Smith: Exposing the Legacy of Frank H. Hankins
Alexa Schnur ’25
How Smith Ate Green Street: Change, Conflict, and Community Over Time
Ryan Turner ’25
Rules and Rule Breakers at Smith College
3:15-4:45 p.m.
Kahn Liberal Arts Institute – Possible Futures: AI and Human Experience
Presentations deriving from Kahn Project Fellowships with Susan Levin, Department of Philosophy, and Luca Capogna, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Boushilah Mata ’25
The Built Environment in the Age of AI: Redefining Human Experience
Katarina Floer ’26
AI Diagnostics for Neglected Tropical Diseases
Regina Hu ’26J
The Return of Authors and Their Intentions from the Grave?
Claire Sullivan ’25
Women in the Machine: Tracing the Feminization of Digital Labor From Human Computers to AI Agents