The Summer Student Program began in 1924 when University of Maine President C.C. Little (our founder) brought six undergraduates to Mount Desert Island for a summer of biological field studies. The Summer Student Program officially became a part of the Jackson Memorial Laboratory's operation in 1931.

Students participate in an ongoing research program with the support of an experienced scientific mentor. They develop an independent project, implement their plan, analyze the data, and report the results. At the end of the summer, they present their findings to researchers, other students, and parents.

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Submissions from 1955

 

Bone changes in mature mice of the large and small strains., Michael Bucklin

 

The inheritance of coat color in the house mouse, and the discovery of the underlying coat color of some of the albino strains of inbred mice., Michael Bucklin

 

The effect of a pteroylglutamic acid deficiency during gestation on the morthogenesis of the embryo in strain 129 mice., Nancy Burton

 

A study of audiogenic seizures in rabbits., Eunice Carlson

 

The influence of various factors on dominance in goats., John J. Coffey

 

The effect of ethanolamine on regenerating liver., Robert W. Colman

 

Degeneration and regeneration in the sciatic trunk of the DBA/1 mouse., Paul C. Dinu

 

Structure of the circulatory system in relation to the occurrence of spontaneous testicular teratomas in an inbred strain of mice., Bill Elieson

 

A Histochemical assay for phosphatases., John R. Esterly

 

Audiogenic seizures in rabbits., John R. Esterly

 

The degeneration and regeneration of the sciatic nerve trunk of the dba/1 strain mouse., Ann Ewalt

 

Natural and immune agglutinins and hemolysins for sheep red blood cells in certain strians of mice., Frederic Freilicher

 

Supernumerary and deficient mammae in mus musculus., Frederic Freilicher

 

The effects of mouse sarcoma 37 on the growth of embryonic mouse lung in vitro., Frederic Freilicher

 

An analysis of humerus and innominate measurements on small and large strains., Roberta Frogel

 

An analysis of the hypostatic genes of eye and cpat color in five minor albino strains: determined by crosses with three inbred strains of mice., Roberta Frogel

 

An analysis of the intensity of inherited macrocytic anemia as the function of age in the house mouse., Roberta Frogel

 

Experimental attempts to determine differences between sublines of a transplantable testicular teratome, 402A., Thomas D. Gelehrter

 

Experimental attempts to determine the effects of pretreatment upon host response to a tumor isograft., Thomas D. Gelehrter

 

The search for vascular correlates to teratoma and small testes in the inbred strain 129 mice., Hannah Jane Gould

 

The effect of castration, adrenalectomy, and a combination of the two on artificially induced pregnancy in prepuberal mice of the strain C57 Br/cd., Carolyn M. Hansen

 

The effect of castration on the second and eighth day of gestation on the mouse., Carolyn M. Hansen

 

The effect of various hormones on the uterine weight of prepuberal mice., Carolyn M. Hansen

 

The effects of various hormone combinations on the preparation of uteri of prepuberal C57 Br/cd mice for the reception of foreign fertilized eggs., Carolyn M. Hansen

 

Insulin, Trypan blue, and folic acid deficiency as teratogens in the C57BR/cd strian mouse., Paul A. Hargrave

 

Fractionation of ribonucleoprotein by isoelectric precipitation and analysis of the components in the fractions., Nancy Ann Hodgkins

 

Avoidance learning to three qualities of one stimulus., Elizabeth Kononen

 

An attempt to establish a clone of a sarcoma ascites tumor., Loretta Lambert

 

The effects of reserpine on the extinction of a conditioned fear response in inbred strains of mice., John Adam Lang

 

Visual discrimination learning in an inbred strain of mice., John Adam Lang

 

The effects of hormonal imbalance upon subcutaneous tumor growth and a study of hydrouterine fluid activity in mice., Erney Maher

 

The effects of weight and age on dominance in a herd of goats., Dale W. Matheson

 

A study of the effects of the gene disorganization as modified by different genetic backgrounds., Dorothy A. McMurphy

 

An attempt to study the differentiation of reaggregated, embryonic tissues of the mouse., Mary B. Meader

 

A study of supernumerary mammae in the mouse., Mary B. Meader

 

Strain differences in response to testosterone stimulation, as indicated by the percentage of mitotic cells found in the epithelium of the seminal vesicle., Ora Mendelsohn

 

A discussion of the development of sensory, motor and social behavior in two breeds of kittens., Paul D. Meyer

 

An analysis of nest building behavior in rabbits., Paul D. Meyer

 

A preliminary study of a sex-linked lethal gene, tortoise shell., Mary Joan Olsen

 

Embryonic skin homografts and histocompatibility., Samuel N. Rosen

 

A study of the bone growth in the humerus and innominate and a determination of the significance of strain and age., Schabtach

 

A study of the changes in the erythrocyte and leucocyte blood counts and the granulocyte-agranulocyte relationship during aging in the house mouse., Gretchen Schabtach

 

Determination of the hypostatic genes present in six minor strains of mice., Gretchen Schabtach

 

Avoidance learning in two strains of mice and their hybrids., Clayton C. Stenberg

 

Effects of reserpine on conditioned temperature responses in dogs., Clayton C. Stenberg

 

Escape learning in obese and non-obese mice., Clayton C. Stenberg

 

Physiological responses to emotional stimuli: thermal adjustment to stress., Clayton C. Stenberg

 

Attempts to activate the corpus luteum of ovulation in prepuberal mice., Jacquelyn Tessaro

 

Agressiveness of C57BL/10 mice toward strangers and siblings., Janet Tollman

 

The effects of testosterone propionate on aggression in male and female C57Bl/10 mice., Janet Tollman

 

Degeneration and regeneration of interrupted peripheral nerve fibers in DBA/1 mus musculus., P.K Trachtman

 

A correlation of gonadal vascularization with the occurrance of teratoma testis and small testis., Evelyn Wernham

 

An analysis of the various factors influencing dominance in a herd of goats., Barbara West

Submissions from 1954

 

Nucleic acid changes in lymph nodes responding to foreign tumor transplants as studied in the first and second set reactions of genetically resistant strains of mice., Paul Andreini

 

Estrus behavior in rabbits. Effects of lyophilized tissue on ovary transplants. To determine kidney degeneration by urinanalysis. Effects of estrogen and testosterone on the estrus cycle of mice. Bone measurements. The effects of varying concentrations of ashed American asbestos on total leukocyte, eosinophil, and mast cells in the peritoneal fluid of mice., Patricia Ann Barnes

 

Estrus behavior in the female rabbit. The histocompatibility of ovaries transplanted from one strain of mouse to another. The detection of renal disorder in the A/Jax and Dba/2 strain of mice by means of urinanalysis. The effects of estrogen and testosterone on the estrus cycle of the female mouse. Bone measurement. The effects of injections of ashed American asbestos fibers on the total leukocyte, eosinophil, and mast cells in the peritoneal fluid of mice. sponsor, Rolf Frederick Barth

 

The effect of varying concentrations of asbestos fibers on the numbers of total leukocytes, eosinophils, and mast cells in the peritoneal fluid of mice., Norman E. Beisaw

 

The effects of treated and untreated asbestos fibers upon the peritoneal fluid cells., Beisaw. Norman E

 

Estrus behavior. Reciprocal ovarian transplants. Urine analysis. Effects of estrogen and testosterone on the estrus cycle., Joyce Elaine Bennet

 

To study oestrous behavior in ten races of inbred rabbits; to attempt to correlate the oestrous cycle of these rabbits to their behavior; and to compare racial and individual differences in the response of the rabbits to injections of estrogen; to study the possibility of reducing histocompatibility resistance to reciprocal transplants of ovaries homogenized tissue which had been lyophilized; to study the progress of renal disorders in the A/Jax and dba/2 strains of mice by urine analysis to study the estrous cycle of dba/1 and dba/2 female mice of vaginal smears, and to note the effects of estrogen and testosterone on the cycle; to compare the cephalic index and the lengths of the long bones of mice of the dba/2. C57BL/6, Swiss and Balb/c strains; to study the effects of ashed American asbestos, injected intra- peritoneally, on the total leucocytes, eosinophils, and mast cells of the peritoneal fluid of mature male dba/1 mice., Paul David Berk

 

Estrus behavior of the female rabbit; to study the possibility of reducing histocompatibility resistance to reciprocal ovarian transplants between strains of mice following the injection of homogenized tissue which had been lyophilized; the estrus cycle of the mouse; to compare the length of the long bones and the cephalic indices of the mouse., Fischer S. Black

 

To study the estrus cycle and the estrus behavior in the rabbit and also to compare individual and racial differences in response to estrogen in rabbits; to determine whether ovaries from one strain of mice can be transplanted successfully into another strain of mice, if the histocompatibility resistance can be reduced by the injection of lyophilized homogenized tissues; to study the progress of renal disorder in the A/Jax and dba strains of mice; to determine the effects of estrogen and testosterone on the estrus cycle of the mouse, three month old dba1 and dba2 females were used for the experiment; to determine strain differences in the length of long bones and cephalic indices of the mouse strains dba, Swiss, Balb/C, and C57BL/6., Barry Robert Bloom

 

Observations on the survival of ovarian grafts., Charles Brill

 

Long bone measurements., Coburn Britton

 

Mouse vaginal smears and injections of estrogen and testosterone., Coburn Britton

 

Reciprocal ovary transplantation., Coburn Britton

 

Renal disease and urinanalysis., Coburn Britton

 

The effect of ashed American asbestos on the eosinophils, leukocytes and mast cells in the peritoneal fluid of mice., Coburn Britton

 

Rabbit behavior., Coburn Haskell Britton

 

Bone measurement., W. Dilworth Cannon

 

Effects of estrogen and testosterone on the estrous cycle of a female mouse., W. Dilworth Cannon

 

Estrus behavior in the rabbit., W. Dilworth Cannon

 

The detection of degeneration of the kidneys of the A/Jax strain of mice in old age., W. Dilworth Cannon

 

The effects of varying concentrations of asbestos fibers on the total leukocytes, eosinophils, and mast cells in the peritoneal fluid of mice., W. Dilworth Cannon

 

The histocompatibility of ovarian transplantations between C57Bl/6's and Balb/c's after lyophilized tissue injections., W. Dilworth Cannon

 

Latent learning with guinea pigs., Winifred Dickinson

 

Vaginal smears in the rabbit., Donald P. Doolittle

 

The effects of estrogen and testosterone on the estrous cycle of the mouse., Eliot Elson

 

The follow the progress of developing kidney degeneration in the A/JAX and DBA strains of mice., Elliot Elson

 

To study strain differences in the estrus behavior of rabbits., Elliot Elson

 

To study the possibility of reducing histocompatibility resistance to reciprocal transplants of ovaries between strains after the injection of homogenized tissue which had been lyophilized., Elliot Elson

 

Preliminary study of the interaction of the growth processes influencing the ossification patterns of the vertebral column of the rabbit., Helen Ruth Fox

 

Studies upon the relationship of fighting dominance to sexual behavior in male C57BL mice., Joan F. French

 

The survival time of ovarian homografts. Recovering offspring from ovarian homografts. Actively acquired tolerance of ovarian, splenic, and skin homografts., Tom Gelehrter

 

The influence of various traumatic situations on ovarian activity in line 129 mice., Joyce G. Gellhorn

 

Serological analysis of normal mouse organs by specific precipitation in gels., Rose J. Goldman

 

Maternal and fetal effects of insulin administration during the eighth day of pregnancy in the mouse., Robert I. Hamby

 

The effect of nutritive dilution on the food intake of obese and nonobese mice., George A. Jacoby

 

The effects of hypoxia on congenital defects in the DBA/2 strain of mice., Betsy W. Johnson

 

Uterine sensitivity to estrogen as related to spontaneous mammary tumor susceptibility in four strains of mice., Betsy W. Johnson

 

Attempt to establish a clone of the teratoma ascites tumor., Janet Reid Kauderer

 

Secondary school report., Gretchen Lange

 

Secondary school report., John Adam Lang

 

Enhancement of normal skin homografts by pretreatment of the hosts with a supernatent of sarcoma I., John K. Laverty

 

Secondary school report., Wendell W. Leavitt

 

Differences in response of inbred strains of mice to gonadotropic hormones., Joan I. Leopold

 

Correlation of estrus behavior in pregnant, pseudo pregnant, and estrogen treated rabbits. Cross strain ovary transplantation in mice. Urine analysis of the A-Jax and DBA strain mice. The effects of estrogen and testosterone injections on the estrus cycle of mice. Strain comparison of bone lengths. Effects of asbestos injections on the total leukocyte, eosinophil, and mast cell counts of the peritoneal fluid of mice., Edward W. Lollis

 

The effect of castration and the administration of thiouracil and thyroid on the age level threshold of young DBA/2 and C57BL/10 mice., Jean MacMillan

 

A study on the barrier effect of the ground substance in estrone treated swiss and hairless mice., Dorothy M. McMurphy

 

Individual and racial differences in response to estrogen in the rabbit. The effect of lyophilized injection on ovarian transplant between strains. Urine analysis. The effect of estrogen and testosterone on the estrus cycle of the mouse. Long bone measurement. Reaction of the total leukocyte, eosinophil and mast cell of the peritoneal fluid of mice to varying solutions of ashed American asbestos., Mary B. Meader