Animal Resources Center project to be approved
An artist's rendering of the Animal Resources Center.
The Board of Curators approved the Animal Resources Center project.
Originally submitted in 2004, the Animal Resources Center was idealized in response to an independent study that said MU’s campus had a “serious space deficiency for housing non-rodent research species and moderate space deficiency for rodent housing.” Mostly swine will inhabit the building.
The $7,388,156 project will be constructed in the southeast part of campus near the other animal-based research facilities. $5,350,000 of this will come from the National Institute of Health’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and the rest will come from campus reserves. Funding for the original project was pulled to assist Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
The board mentioned no intended completion date on the project.