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VOLUME 18, NUMBER 30
AUGUST 6, 1971
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Vivarium Opens
Research Animals Find New Home
Research animals at Duke Medical
Center now have a building they can call
their own.
The Vivarium, a Hillsborough stone
and concrete structure designed by the
architectural firm of John D. Latimer and
Associates, Inc., of Durham, is the new
home of thousands of animals ranging
from white mice to pigs.
"This is one of the finest animal care
facilities in the nation," Dr. William G.
Aniyan, Duke's vice-president for health
affairs, said. The structure was designed
to comply fully with all federal
regulations on the care and handling of
experimental animals.
Constructed at a cost of close to $2
million, the Vivarium was built directly
behind Duke's Research Park complex
near the corner of Research Drive and
Erwin Road. The building is one story
with a partial basement and was designed
^so that its 46,000 sq. ft. capacity can
eventually be doubled if necessary.
The building has 44 cage rooms, a
five-room animal surgical suite,
post-operative rooms, and a quarantine
area. In addition, the Vivarium contains
holding rooms to take care of large
animals brought in from Duke's animal
farms north of Durham.
in order to preserve sanitary
conditions, the Vivarium has so-called
"clean" and "dirty" sides. This prevents
animals which have gone through
quarantine from coming in contact with
other animals which are scheduled for
surgical procedures.
Cage washing and the removal of used
bedding are taken care of on the dirty
side to maintain the sanitary conditions
in the other section.
The Vivarium provides quarters for
most of Duke's small research animals,
but several other research buildings will
continue to house a few animals. The
entire operation is under the direction of
the newly reorganized division of animal
laboratory services and its supervisory
committees.
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CENTRAL ANIMAL CARE FACILITY—Here's Duke's new Vivarium, the
building that will house most research animals. It was constructed behind the
Research Park complex near Research Drive, (photo by Jim Wallace)
Assembly Passes School Aid Bill
Just hours before the final gavel fell on
its 1971 session, the North Carolina
General Assembly passed Sehate Bill 74,
the aid to private medical schools
proposal.
The law allpcates more than $1.2
million to the State Board of Higher
Education to help finance the education
of North Carolinians at Duke and at the
Bowman Gray School of Medicine in
Winston-Salem over the next two years.
This fall, both Duke and Bowman
Gray will receive $3,000 from the Board
for each North Carolina student enrolled
in the freshman, sophomore, and junior
medical classes. The plan will include
students in all four classes in September
of 1972.
Of that 3,000 per student, the General
Assembly stipulated that $500 must be
placed in a scholarship fund to help pay
tuition for any of the North Carolina
Students who need it. Only in-state
students who need financial help will
receive tuition assistance from this fund,
and no North Carolinian can receive more
than $1,500 a year from it.
The original aid bills, modified
somewhat in the legislative process, were
introduced in the General Assembly in
January by Sen. J, Russel Kirby,
D-Wilson, and Rep. Perry Martin,
D-Northampton, chairmen of the Senate
and House committees oh higher
education.
Sen. Gordon Allen, D-Person, and Sen.
Claude Currie, D-Durham, were
co-sponsors of the bill introduced in the
Senate and Durham Reps. George Miller
and Bill Whichard co-sponsored an
identk:al bill in the House.
During the 1969 General Assembly
session, $2,500 was alloted for each
North Carolina medical student at Duke
and Bowman Gray.
Duke enrolled 25 in-state students last
fall, and barring any last-minute
withdrawals, will have 27 North
Carolinians in September's entering class.