Celebrating Students and Faculty Working Together Saturday, April 18, 2009 8 a.m.–4 p.m. Celebrating Collaborations: Students and Faculty Working Together Saturday, April 18, 2009 8 a.m.–4 p.m. Smith College’s annual showcase of student research and performance highlights students’ intellectual achievements and collaborative efforts with faculty in a variety of departmental, program and interdisciplinary projects. It is a celebration of liberal arts education. It is our hope that all members of the Smith community and many guests will partake in the educational richness of this day, recognizing that these sessions are a mere sampling of the exciting student-faculty collaborations that unfold on our campus every day. Program Collaborations Across Borders: denotes presentations with an international or intercultural focus in the spirit of Smith’s mission as a global college Sarah Anne Kam ’09, Hanna Sherrill ’09 and Alexis 8--9:30 a.m. Ziemba ’12 5 Anesthetic Preconditioning in Mouse Neuroblastoma; Morning Refreshments science poster session deriving from thesis with Adam Hall, Campus Center second floor associate professor of biological sciences Laura-Louise Campbell 10J and Alexis Ziemba ’12 6 Anesthetic-Induced Neurite Retraction in Primary Murine 8:30--10:30 a.m. Cortical Neurons; science poster session deriving from special studies with Adam Hall, associate professor of Science Poster Session biological sciences Campus Center second floor Sarah Wardlaw ’09, Molly Gibson ’09 and Allison Science poster displays are numbered to correspond Ulrich 11J 7 with the numbers below. Studies of Cationic Flux Through Cyclic Peptides; science poster session deriving from special studies with Adam Erin Braswell ’09 1 Hall, associate professor of biological sciences The Music of the Spheres: Exploring the Connections Between Astronomy and Music; science poster session Katherine Lofgren ’09 8 deriving from special studies with Suzan Edwards, profes- Biology Above Treeline; science poster session deriving sor of astronomy from special studies with Virginia Hayssen, professor of biological sciences Azucena Ramos ’09 and Elizabeth Deschene ’09 2 The Role of Slit and Their Roundabout Receptors in Cora Waterman ’11 and Ashley Urrutia ’11 9 Commissure Development Within the Zebrafish Forebrain; The Correlation Between Coat Color and Body Size Across science poster session deriving from work with Michael the Genus Peromyscus: Larger Deer Mice Are Darker Than Barresi, assistant professor of biological sciences Smaller Deer Mice; science poster session deriving from work with Virginia Hayssen, professor of biological sci- Sarah Bashiruddin ’10 3 ences Defining the Role of Glia in Post-Optic Commissure For- mation in Zebrafish; science poster session deriving from Jennifer Yoo ’11 10 special studies with Michael Barresi, assistant professor of Methodilogical Improvements of Cortisol Collection in biological sciences Canis familiaris; science poster session deriving from work with Virginia Hayssen, professor of biological sci- Kimberly Johnson GR 4 ences The Role of Eg5 Kinesin in Regulating Radial Glial Cell Number in Zebrafish; science poster session deriving from Jennifer DeBerardinis ’11 11 work with Michael Barresi, assistant professor of biological Non-Mandelian Inheritance in Chilodonella uncinata; sciences science poster session deriving from STRIDE research with Laura Katz, Elsie Damon Simonds Professor of Biological Sciences Celebrating Collaborations 2009 2 Hannah Jaris ’09 12 ing from special studies with Elizabeth Jamieson, assistant Genetic Diversity of Ciliates in the Near Coastal Sediment; professor of chemistry science poster session deriving from thesis with Laura Katz, Elsie Damon Simonds Professor of Biological Sciences Eliza Spear ’12 22 Pseudo-Rotation in XY3 Compounds (X=I, Br, Cl; Y=F, Meaghan Hall ’10 13 Cl); science poster session deriving from STRIDE research Intraspecific Mitochondrial Genome Variation in Chilodo- with Robert Linck, professor of chemistry nella uncinata; science poster session deriving from special studies with Laura Katz, Elsie Damon Simonds Cristina Santarossa ’11 and Georgina Lopez ’09 23 Professor of Biological Sciences What Lies Beneath: The Influence of Substrate Surface Chemistry on Biofilm Nucleation; science poster session Rachel Rock-Blake ’09 14 deriving from summer research with Kate Queeney, associ- 150 Years of Change in Coastal Ecology: An Analysis of the ate professor of chemistry Algae Collected by Eliza M. French; science poster session deriving from special studies with Paulette Peckol, Louise Susanna Michael ’12 and Carmen Say ’11 24 C. Harrington Professor of Biological Sciences Why So Wettable? Using Dynamic Contact Angle to Monitor Oxidation of Hydrogen-Terminated Silicon; science poster Phung Nguyen ’10 and Lily Maynard ’11 15 session deriving from STRIDE research and independent Bugs in the System: A Comparison of Invertebrate Biodiver- study with Kate Queeney, associate professor of chemistry sity Between Two Rivers in Western Massachusetts; science poster session deriving from special studies and STRIDE Carmen Say ’11 25 research with L. David Smith, associate professor of biologi- From Nanorough to More Robust: Using Dynamic FT- cal sciences IR Spectroscopy to Monitor the Surface Topography of Chemically Modified Silicon; science poster session deriv- Chelsea Vaughn ’09 16 ing from independent study with Kate Queeney, associate People Pressures on Previously Pristine Places: A Compara- professor of chemistry tive Study of Coral Biodiversity Near Hoga Island, Indone- sia; science poster session deriving from special studies with Leslie Herndon ’10 26 L. David Smith, associate professor of biological sciences Synthetic Routes Toward Inhibition of Bacterial Quorum Sensing; science poster session deriving from special Noëlle Bittner ’09 17 studies with Tanya Schneider, visiting assistant professor of Allozyme Analysis of a Contact Zone Between Two chemistry mtDna Haplotypes in Desmognathus ocoee (Amphibia: Plethodontidae); science poster session deriving from thesis Erena Farah Ousman ’11 and Keturah Edwards with Stephen Tilley, Myra A. Sampson Professor of Biologi- ’11 27 cal Sciences Development of a Novel Dienophile for Acid-Promoted Diels-Alder Reactions; science poster session deriving from Patricia Brazee ’10 18 AEMES research with Kevin Shea, associate professor of Thermoregulation of Gene Experession in E. coli; science chemistry poster session deriving from special studies with Christine White-Ziegler, associate professor of biological sciences Kerry Valentine AC’09 28 Using Cl-NMR to Detect Anionic Flux Mediated by Antibi- Amanda Taus ’09 19 otics; science poster session deriving from special studies Hypothetical to Helpful: Identification of Novel Protein in with Cristina Suarez, associate professor of chemistry, and Brugla Malayi; science poster session deriving from work Adam Hall, associate professor of biological sciences with Steven Williams, Gates Professor of Biological Sciences Yang Li ’11 29 Melinda Ng ’09 20 Protein Flexibility Analysis: A Friendly Interface; science Thermodynamic Stability of the Sp Lesion in Oxidized poster session deriving from special studies with Ileana DNA; science poster session deriving from special studies Streinu, professor of computer science and SURF with Elizabeth Jamieson, assistant professor of chemistry Diana Jaunzeikare ’11 30 Protein Flexibility Analysis on the Whole Protein Data Megana Dwarakanath ’10, Yili Liao ’09 and Maud M. Bank; science poster session deriving from classwork with Martei ’10 21 Ileana Streinu, professor of computer science Impact of Oxidation of Guanine Base on the Thermody- namic Stability of DNA Duplex; science poster session deriv- 3 Celebrating Collaborations 2009 Christine Grascia ’09 31 clinic director, and Andrew Guswa, associate professor of Visualizing the Hidden Information in Wikipedia; science engineering poster session deriving from thesis with Dominique Thié- baut, associate professor of computer science Shannon Comiskey ’09, Sari Field ’09, Erica Kibbe ’09 and Akosua Taylor ’09 39 Kelly Dwan ’09 32 Design of an Automobile Suspension System for the Vehicle 3D-Visualization of 2D Brain Scans; science poster session Design Summit Initiative; science poster session deriving deriving from special studies with Dominique Thiébaut, from classwork in Engineering Design Clinic sponsored associate professor of computer science by the Vehicle Design Summit and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance with Susannah Howe, Chin Yen Tee ’11 33 design clinic director, and Denise McKay, assistant professor Quantifying the Cost of Wind Power Variability on a Trans- of engineering mission Network; science poster session deriving from research assistance with Judith Cardell, Clare Boothe Luce Katherine MacKenzie ’11 and Alexandra Deahl ’11 40 Associate Professor of Computer Engineering Efficient Building Research and Energy Analysis for the Westhampton Library; science poster session deriving Shannon Comiskey ’09, Ilda Dule ’10, Darcy Dwyer from special studies with Paul Voss, assistant professor of ’11, Sari Field ’09, Sangay Kazi ’09, Katherine engineering MacKenzie ’11, Bhavna Mungur ’12, Courtney Murphy ’11, Nancy Orth ’09, Prateek Rajbhandari HC and Gabrielle Merchant ’09 41 Jingxin Wu ’12 34 Normative Energy Reflectance Measurements in Newborn Applied Design and Phototyping; science poster session and One-Month-Old Infants; science poster session deriv- deriving from classwork in IDP