The Lee Grodzins includes course material from when Grodzins was a student at Purdue, and when he began teaching as a faculty member in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Physics department. The collection also includes original data, research, and reports on the "manpower problem in physics" project. There is also consulting and patent work in the collection on neutrinos, detection technology, and airport safety. There is one notebook related to an effort to bring Chinese graduate students to US universities.