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.
Content Warning: Contains Description of Harm to Animals
This video was featured during a debate on March, 25h, 2011 held by the University of Michigan's Michigan Animal Rights Society-an organization for student animal rights activists. This video depicts sensitive content of chickens being harmed and killed for factory farming. The video was played during a debate between former PETA Vice President Bruce Friedrich and the Michigan Ethics Bowl.
A poster from the Michigan Animal Rights Society advertising a lecture where American Animal Rights activist Peter Young describes his evolution into an animal-rights activists and his later prosecution for freeing animals from fur farms.
A poster by the Michigan Ethics Bowl advertising a debate between PETA VP Bruce Friedrich and the Michigan Ethics Bowl Team on whether or not eating meat is ethical.
A digital poster from the Michigan Animal Rights Society advertising an event where guest speaker and PETA's Vice President of Laboratory Investigations Cases Alka Chandna provides a critical review of animal experimentation at the University of Michigan and elsewhere.