Grass Calendar Drawings & Essays

For 25 years (1973-1998) Grass Instrument Company (and later Grass Technologies, An Astro-Med, Inc. Subsidiary) produced a yearly scientific calendar and essay book that was mailed to our customers each November. Each year a different subject and author was selected. Our illustrator, Trudy Nicholson, remained consistent for all of the calendars.

We have had a lot of requests from all over the world to make the calendar illustrations and essays available to the public again. This is a start. Check back periodically for more. We hope you enjoy the illustrations and reading the essays again.
Year Title Author
1998 Motor Control Ron Harris-Warrick, Ph.D.
Ron Hoy, Ph.D.
1997 Optical Imaging in Neuroscience George Augustine, Ph.D.
Jeff Lichtman, M.D., Ph.D
Stephen Smith, Ph.D.
1996 Neural Development: Forming a Nervous System Nancy Milburn, Ph.D.
1995 Homeostasis in Harsh Environments Donald Jackson, Ph.D.
1994 Eyes James McIlwain, M.D.
1993 Sleep: A Complex Behavioral Adaptation Mary A. Carskadon, Ph.D.
1992 Insects: Signals and Survival Ron R. Hoy, Ph.D.
1991 Ion Channel Diversity: Age of Discovery Paul Brehm, Ph.D.
1990 Neurogenetics James McIlwain, M.D.
Helen Cserr, Ph.D.
1989 Biology of the Blood-Brain Barrier Helen Cserr, Ph.D.
1988 Neurobiology of Anesthesia

Gary Strichartz, Ph.D.
Neil Krieger, Ph.D.

1987 Circulatory Physiology: Cardiac Diversity Robert Hill, Ph.D.
1986 Respiratory Physiology: the Breath of Life - coming soon Donald T. Frazier, Ph.D.
1985 The Chemical Senses: from Microbes to Man - coming soon Barry W. Ache, Ph.D.