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Box 62

 Container

Contains 8 Collections and/or Records:

Teaching Materials and Departmental Documents, 1962 - 2010

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 468, Series 6
Scope and Contents This series contains material pertaining to Nichols career as a professor at Purdue University, where he worked from 1974 until 2012 and held joint appointments in the Departments of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology. Included are annual reports, faculty meeting notes, calendars, course descriptions, assignments, and evaluations, overhead projector slides, exams, fellowship applications, curriculum vitaes, and article reprints.
Dates: 1962 - 2010

Consulting Materials, 1957 - 2010

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 468, Series 9
Scope and Contents This series contains material related to psychedelic research, though Nichols did not author most of the material in this collection. Holding include pamphlets, service request forms, handwritten notes and drawings, interview transcripts, LSD session testimonies, and article reprints.
Dates: 1957 - 2010

Periodicals and Clippings, 1966 - 2011

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 468, Series 10
Scope and Contents This series contains clippings from popular and scholarly newspapers and magazines, the majority of which pertain to psychedelic research and Nichols's career. Topics include LSD, MDMA, drug scheduling, as well as the prohibition, misuse, and re-emergence of psychedelic psychotherapy. Other topics include psychedelics' potential to treat Parkinson's disease, to reduce death anxiety in end-stage cancer patients, and to foster understanding of the structure of the brain and personality. Several...
Dates: 1966 - 2011

Reproductions of four LSD counseling session reports with drawings, 1957

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSF 468, Series 9, File
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains material related to psychedelic research, though Nichols did not author most of the material in this collection. Holding include pamphlets, service request forms, handwritten notes and drawings, interview transcripts, LSD session testimonies, and article reprints.
Dates: 1957

Newspapers, 1993 - 2010

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSF 468, Series 10, File
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains clippings from popular and scholarly newspapers and magazines, the majority of which pertain to psychedelic research and Nichols's career. Topics include LSD, MDMA, drug scheduling, as well as the prohibition, misuse, and re-emergence of psychedelic psychotherapy. Other topics include psychedelics' potential to treat Parkinson's disease, to reduce death anxiety in end-stage cancer patients, and to foster understanding of the structure of the brain and personality. Several...
Dates: 1993 - 2010

Magazines, 1966 - 2009

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 468, Series 10, File
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains clippings from popular and scholarly newspapers and magazines, the majority of which pertain to psychedelic research and Nichols's career. Topics include LSD, MDMA, drug scheduling, as well as the prohibition, misuse, and re-emergence of psychedelic psychotherapy. Other topics include psychedelics' potential to treat Parkinson's disease, to reduce death anxiety in end-stage cancer patients, and to foster understanding of the structure of the brain and personality. Several...
Dates: 1966 - 2009

Patent application material, P87042, 1989 - 1990

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSF 468, Series 6, File
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains material pertaining to Nichols career as a professor at Purdue University, where he worked from 1974 until 2012 and held joint appointments in the Departments of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology. Included are annual reports, faculty meeting notes, calendars, course descriptions, assignments, and evaluations, overhead projector slides, exams, fellowship applications, curriculum vitaes, and article reprints.
Dates: 1989 - 1990

David E. Nichols papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 468
Scope and Contents The David E. Nichols papers document David E. Nichols’s career as a medicinal chemist and pharmacologist at Purdue University from 1974 until 2012, as well as his subsequent professional and public activities. The collection features materials pertaining to Nichols’s groundbreaking research on hallucinogens (psychedelics), serotonin receptors, dopamine agonists, MDMA neurotoxicity, and MDMA analogues. The collection also features documents pertaining to the founding and proceedings of the...
Dates: 1920-2012; Other: Majority of material found in 1990s