The UW-System Board of Regents approved plans to create two substantial research centers Friday. At the regents monthly meeting, held at UW-Green Bay, the Board approved a measure to allow UW-Madison to exchange land with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and to allow WARF to construct the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and the Morgridge Institute for Research. The facilities, collectively known as the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, were announced March 3. John and Tashia Morgridge provided a $50 million donation for the proposed Morgridge Institute.
The Regents voted to allow more lab space for the Department of Pathobiological Sciences and the School of Veterinary Medicine to support Avian flu research.
The Board also approved construction for Chadbourne Residential College.
