The UW Board of Regents today approved a land swap allowing construction of an underground holding facility for thousands of rats and mice for research use on the UW-Madison campus.
The project will be located in the 1200 block of Campus Drive at North Orchard Street, as part of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, a biomedical research complex.
Approval of the land swap between the UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation was needed so a $20 million plan that includes a receiving dock as well as the 10,000-square-foot “vivarium” — a facility for live animals for observation and research — could proceed.