David Grandy papers

This collection contains an exhaustive amount of records showing the extensive and intensive work of the Grandy Lab in its research into the brain chemistry of the neurotransmitters called dopamine. In the course of decades-long studies, new types of dopamine were discovered, and more information came to light on their effects on such things as locomotor activity, learning, and memory which led to hope that they might be manipulated to help cure physical motor disorders, as well as a variety of mental disorders.

"Series I: Classes" - This series contains class curricula and other materials. It is subdivided into those classes he took himself and those he taught or reviewed later in his career. The materials include aeronautical engineering texts, college notebooks and exams, class reviews, and evaluations of both students and staff.

"Series II: Collected writings" is divided into abstracts, manuscripts, published articles, and book chapters collectively written by the Grandy Lab, as well as Grandy’s reviews of other peoples’ work.

"Series III: Departmental records" contains a plethora of materials outlining Grandy’s professional activities as a researcher and faculty member. It includes intra-departmental correspondence; experimental protocols; Grandy’s own personnel evaluations and those of his subordinates; reports on and from genetic analytical and pharmaceutical companies; financial materials; and descriptions of and requests for laboratory equipment.

"Series IV: Experimental and research data" is the largest series of the collection and contains mountains of raw data and media in files, lab notebooks, and reports showing the exhausting thoroughness of the lab’s genetic analyses over the years.

"Series V: General correspondence" is non-departmental correspondence of Grandy with colleagues and correspondents around the country and across the globe.

"Series VI: Grants" includes documentation of the grants funding the Grandy Lab’s multitude of research projects over the years.

"Series VII: Media" consists of a wide variety of media. These include chromatographs, drawn graphics, film strips, micrographs, photographs, negatives, radiographs, transparencies, and videotapes. Such computer media as was accessible has been transferred to our digital archives, but is not currently available online.

"Series VIII: Patents" includes the documentation about the great amount of new technologies and products the Laboratory’s studies created in the course of its research into DNA cloning.