This item set contains the annual reports from the University Committee on the Use and Care of Animals to OLAW/OPPR from 1995 to 2002. Within each of these reports the program changes, the semi-annual review notes and the minority reports are listed along with a description of members of the committee and a description and/or list of the facility inspections conducted. There is also occasionally correspondence that the letters have been received and the envelopes they were sent in.
Select papers from the "Biographical Materials" and "General Animal Research" folders of Professor Bennett J. Cohen. Cohen was a pioneer in the field of animal testing research. Trained as a veterinarian, he founded the ULAM (Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine) at the University of Michigan and authored the "Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals." His later-in-life animal research focused on aging with studies on improving wound healing rates of older mice.
Accreditation report produced by UCUCA and delivered to Bennet J. Cohen at the University of Michigan detailing their site visit findings. Memo from Bennet J. Cohen to University of Michigan's Committee to the Use and Care of Animals briefing and forwarding the report.
A poster from the Michigan Animal Rights Society advertising a debate between PETA VP Bruce Friedrich and the Michigan Ethics Bowl Team on whether or not eating meat is ethical.
A 1983 memo from Bennett J. Cohen of the University of Michigan’s Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine to the Committee on Use and Care of Animals summarizing the newly received AAALAC site-visit report. Cohen notes deficiencies the report found and disputes some of its claims.
The archived website from the University of Michigan Law School's Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, a organization of law students dedicated to the legal protection of animals.
